The boundary element method (BEM) has emerged as a powerful numerical tool for addressing heat conduction problems by reducing the computational domain to its boundary. This methodological advantage ...

Lab member Mojtaba Edalatpour shows the thermal diode developed by Boreyko’s team. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech. Jonathan Boreyko, an associate professor in mechanical engineering at ...

This paper presents a version of the fast multipole method (FMM) for integral equations describing conduction through three-dimensional periodic heterogeneous media. The proposed method is based on ...