... circuitry of resistance R L , producing an electric current I . The heat transport in TE element is governed by one-dimensional energy equation, and by considering the thermoelectric effects it is written as [ 21 ] (1) d 2 T dx 2 + ρ I 2 kA 2 - τ...

...., 2006 , Thermoelectrics Handbook Macro to Nano , CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group , Boca Raton, FL . [2] Rowe , D. , 2006 , “ Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery as a Renewable Energy Source ,” Int. J. Innov. Energy Syst. Power , 1 ( 1 ), pp. 13 – 23 . Available at http...

...) of a thermoelectric material. We carry out numerical calculations of heat conduction in porous materials, such as phonon Boltzmann transport (BTE) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, in order to investigate the mechanism of the thermal conductivity reduction of a porous material. In the BTE, we applied...