A simple MATLAB script for solving a 1D time-dependent linearized phonon transport problem with the Kinetic Monte Carlo method
The system is a slab of Si material (dispersion and relaxation time data are located in the file dataSi.txt) of width L, with imposed temperatures on both sides. The method makes use of the kinetic type algorithm developed in :
J-P. Péraud and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou,
"An alternative approach to efficient simulation of micro/nanoscale phonon transport",
Applied Physics Letters, 101, 153114, 2012.
MC1D.m is the main script. It uses the files select_mode.m and dataSi.txt, which must be in the MATLAB path. To visualize a movie of the solution, uncomment the last 7 lines.