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We stated in Chapter 19 that heat conduction can be described as the transfer of thermal energy from the hot to the cold part of a piece of material. We shall discuss now the mechanisms which are involved in this transfer of thermal energy.
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Hummel, R.E. (1985). Thermal Conduction. In: Electronic Properties of Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02424-9_21
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