Beschreibung:
This graduate textbook describes atomic-level kinetics of thermal energy storage, transport, and transformation by principal energy carriers.
1. Introduction and preliminaries; 2. Molecular orbitals/potentials/dynamics and quantum energy states; 3. Carrier energy transport and transformation theories; 4. Phonon energy storage, transport, and transformation kinetics; 5. Electron energy storage, transport, and transformation kinetics; 6. Fluid particle energy storage, transport, and transformation kinetics; 7. Photon energy storage, transport, and transformation kinetics; Appendices A-I.