- Kocaeli Journal of Science and Engineering
- Vol: 3 Issue: 1
- Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics for Calculating the Thermal Conductivity of Graphene-Coated Alumi...
Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics for Calculating the Thermal Conductivity of Graphene-Coated Aluminum
Authors : Kasim Toprak, Ahmet Yilmaz
Pages : 27-32
Doi:10.34088/kojose.663888
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Publication Date : 2020-05-31
Article Type : Research
Abstract :The number of graphene layer and length effect on the thermal conductivity of the graphene-coated aluminum is studied using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulation method. The NEMD simulation code is created and performed in the C++ computer programming language with Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. NEMD simulations are carried out for bare aluminum, graphene, single-layer graphene (SLG) - bilayer graphene (BLG) coated aluminum. Results show that the thermal conductivity increases with the length of the model. Moreover, coating one side of aluminum with graphene increases the phonon thermal conductivity 149% and 261% for SLG and BLG respectively.Keywords : Graphene coated aluminum, Molecular dynamics, Thermal conductivity