If the sleeve is propelled by phonons from the narrow tube, I need to come up with something else. You can see the seem where I split and anchored the tube (a potential problem). Everything to the left is at 200 K and everything to the right, including the sleeve, (maybe another problem) is at 500 K. Plus since this sim is in a vacuum, I would need to ensure there is some physical contact between the two tubes. It doesn't look like there is, and maybe my temp gradient is too steep. I need a nice scale from crazy vibrations pushing to moderate vibrations pushing to minimal vibrations?
A lot of stuff to consider.
3 comments:
Tom,
I don't know if this will be helpful or not but in the experiment the two tubes did not have the same structure (armchair, zig-zag or helical are the three types of nanotubes) but I don't know which ones they used.
jim
Is phonon transport even rigorously modeled by the molecular mechanics based simulator in use here?
The temp was 1000 C at the center and 27 C at the ends. Inner tube 1,000 nm in length and 200 nm for the outer sleve.
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