Heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces

Details Heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces Heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces

2009-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/0908.3941v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

23 pages, 19 figures

Scientific paper

We study the heat transfer between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces. We include both the heat transfer from the area of real contact, and the heat transfer between the surfaces in the noncontact regions. We apply a recently developed contact mechanics theory, which accounts for the hierarchical nature of the contact between solids with roughness on many different length scales. For elastic contact, at the highest (atomic) resolution the area of real contact typically consists of atomic (nanometer) sized regions, and we discuss the implications of this for the heat transfer. For solids with very smooth surfaces, as is typical in many modern engineering applications, the interfacial separation in the non-contact regions will be very small, and for this case we show the importance of the radiative heat transfer associated with the evanescent electromagnetic waves which exist outside of all bodies.

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