Mesoscopic Theories of Heat Transport in Nanosystems

David Jou (born in Sitges,Catalonia, Spain in 1953) is Full Professor of Physics of Condensed Matter atthe Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. He has published 230 researchpapers on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics as well as severalbooks, including Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics(with J. Casas-Vázquez and G Lebon, Springer, now in its 4thedition, 2014), Thermodynamics of Fluids UnderFlow (with J. Casas-Vázquez and M. Criado-Sancho, Springer, 2014), and Understanding Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics (with G. Lebon and J. Casas-Vázquez,Springer, 2008).Vito AntonioCimmelli (born in Sarno, Italy in 1958) is a Full Professor of MathematicalPhysics at the University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy. His research interestsare the mathematical methods of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, nonlocalconstitutive theories, and heat conduction far from equilibrium. ProfessorCimmelli is the author of around 90 research articles on these topics.AntonioSellitto (born in Nocera Inferiore, Italy in 1978) is a fixed-term researcher inMathematical Physics at the University of Salerno, Italy, and an adjunctprofessor at the University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy. In 2012 he wasawarded an INdAM-SIMAI prize for his PhD thesis on “Nonequilibrium Temperatureand Heat Transport Equations in Nanosystems”. He has published several paperson nonequilibrium thermodynamics and heat transport in nanosystems.

• 1 Nonequilibriumthermodynamics and heat transport at nanoscale.- 2 Linear and nonlinearheat-transport equations.- 3 Mesoscopic description of boundary effects andeffective thermal conductivity in nanosystems: phonon hydrodynamics.- 4 Mesoscopicdescription of effective thermal conductivity in porous systems, nanocompositesand nanofluids.- 5 Weakly nonlocal and nonlinear heat transport.- 6 Heattransport with phonons and electrons and efficiency of thermoelectric generators.-7 Perspectives.