A generalized enhanced Fourier law (EFL) that accounts for quasiballistic phonon transport effects in a formulation entirely in terms of physical observables is derived from the Boltzmann transport equation. It generalizes the previously reported EFL from a gray phonon population to an arbitrary quasi-ballistic phonon mode population, the chief advantage being its formulation in terms of observ...

The generalized Fourier transform associated with a selfadjoint Sturm–Liouville operator is a unitary transformation which converts the action of this operator into a simple product by a spectral variable. For a particular operator defined on the half-line and which involves a step function, we show how to extend such a transformation to generalized functions, or distributions, with a suitable ...