Introduction to Thermal Cloaking

Woon-Shing Yeung: Since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1979, Dr. Yeung has spent over ten years in academia teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and over 25 years working in industry in the USA. Currently, he is a Visiting Specialist at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, engaging in thermal cloaking research and teaching, and has co-authored a few publications on thermal cloaking.   Ruey-Jen Yang: Dr. Yang has worked in industry in the USA for over 10 years after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1982. Professor Yang joined the National Cheng Kung University since 1993 and currently is a Chair Professor and a research fellow of the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (STAM). His research focuses on Fluid/Thermal Sciences, Microfluidics and Energy Conversion.   

Introduction.- Review of Curvilinear Coordinates.- Review of Heat Conduction.-Transformation Theory for Conduction Thermal Cloaking.- Bilayer Theory for Conduction Thermal Cloaking.- General Consideration of Bilayer Thermal Cloak.- Transformation Theory for Convection Thermal Cloaking.- Bilayer Theory for Convection Thermal Cloaking.- Transient Thermal Cloaking.- Numerical Simulation and Experiments.- Prologue: Engineering Application and Perspectives.