著者

Alejandro DATAS Daisuke HIRASHIMA Katsunori HANAMURA

出版者

The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers and The Heat Transfer Society of Japan

雑誌

Journal of Thermal Science and Technology (ISSN:18805566)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.1, pp.91-105, 2013 (Released:2013-03-19)

参考文献数

42

被引用文献数

12 15

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We present the numerical simulation, using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, of the radiative heat transfer between two thin SiC slabs. We aim to explore the ability of the FDTD method to reproduce the analytical results for the Surface Phonon Polariton (SPhP) assisted near field radiative energy transfer between two SiC slabs separated by a nano/micro-metric vacuum gap. In this regard, we describe the key challenges that must be addressed for simulating general near-field radiative energy transfer problems using the FDTD method. FDTD is a powerful technique for simulating the near-field radiative energy transfer because it allows simulating arbitrary shaped nano-structured bodies, like photonic crystals, for which an analytical solution is not readily obtained.