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Heat pulse experiments revisited

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This is a review of heat propagation — theory and experiment — in dielectric solids at low temperatures where the phenomenon of second sound occurs. The review does not merely present a list of the various explanations of the observed phenomena. Rather it views them as special cases of a unified theory which is formulated within the framework of extended thermodynamics of phonos. Field equations are derived by averaging over the phonon-Boltzmann equation and initial and boundary value problems are solved. Thus it became possible to achieve a full explanation of the observations of the heat-pulse experiments in which ballistic phonons, second sound and ordinary heat conduction compete.

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Dreyer, W., Struchtrup, H. Heat pulse experiments revisited. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn 5, 3–50 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01135371

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