Introduction to Thermal Cloaking

Yang, Ruey-Jen

Department of Engineering Science

Springer, 2022

ISBN 978-981-16-7549-2
 

Abstract

   Thermal cloaking has been an emerging field of engineering beginning with the seminal work of Pendry et al. on electromagnetic cloaking published in Science in 2006. Since then, the concept has been extended to other fields of physics. This book on thermal cloaking intends to provide detailed explanation of the underlying theoretical bases leading to the primary thermal cloaking results, from an engineering perspective. Also, the book presents the materials with an emphasize on the related physical phenomena and interpretation, to the extent possible. Through this book, engineering students can grasp the fundamental ideas of thermal cloaking and the associated mathematics, thereby better equipping them to initiate their own research and explore new ideas in thermal cloaking.

中文介紹

    本書詳細解釋熱隱形基礎理論，內容涵蓋熱隱形的兩個主要分支：變換熱力學和雙層理論。主要介紹座標變換，各向異性熱超材料中的熱傳導以及多孔介質傳輸現象。本書包含作者未發表的原創分析，這些原創分析對於理解熱隱形的物理概念相當有所幫助。這本書能提高研究者獲得對相關主題的基本理解，進而可以應用於熱流問題。例如在熱傳學方面可以將熱能引導至特定區域，達到隔絕熱能或集中熱量之效果，提供節約能源新技術。在電子產品熱管理技術方面，此方法可以應用保護電子元件使其不受熱流影響及提高電子系統的可靠度。在熱傳學/流體力學偶合應用於受極端溫度條件影響的核心部件，例如高速飛彈和飛行器（極高溫度）以及航太器，如衛星和空間站（極冷溫度）。國防軍事上，使飛機和潛艇不僅減少受流體之阻力且可以變成實體匿蹤或熱偽裝，以創新觀念來處理傳統上對能源、半導體電子或國防產業挑戰性之熱流問題。