Constitutive equations for heat conduction in nanosystems and nonequilibrium processes: an overview
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May 20, 2016
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Published Online: May 20, 2016
Page range: 196 - 222
Received: Aug 06, 2015
Accepted: Aug 08, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/caim-2016-0014
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We provide an overview on the problem of modeling heat transport at nanoscale and in far-from-equilibrium processes. A survey of recent results is summarized, and a conceptual discussion of them in the framework of Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics is developed.