Abstract
The existing thermal metamaterials are almost designed to work at room temperature where thermal conduction is the dominant way of heat transfer. Unfortunately, as the temperature increases, thermal radiation becomes more and more important, and hence these metamaterials no longer work. The inability to handle thermal radiation largely limits practical applications at high temperature, such as thermal protection. To solve this problem, here we describe an effective medium theory to manipulate thermal radiation with the Rosseland diffusion approximation. This theory helps to design three types of radiative metamaterials even with anisotropic geometries, including transparency, cloak, and expander. Theoretical analyses are further confirmed by finite-element simulations, which indicate that these radiative metamaterials perform well at both steady and transient states. This chapter not only introduces an effective medium theory to manipulate thermal radiation, but also designs three types of radiative metamaterials. These results may provide hints on novel thermal management and have potential applications in radiative illusion/camouflage, radiative diode, etc.
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Huang, JP. (2020). Theory for Thermal Radiation: Transparency, Cloak, and Expander. In: Theoretical Thermotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2301-4_19
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