Discrete and continuum fundamental solutions describing heat conduction in a 1D harmonic crystal: Discrete-to-continuum limit and slow-and-fast motions decoupling

Abstract

In the recent paper by Sokolov et al. (Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer 176 (2021) 121442) ballistic heat propagation in a 1D harmonic crystal is considered and the properties of the exact discrete solution and the continuum solution of the ballistic heat equation are numerically compared. The aim of this note is to demonstrate that the continuum fundamental solution can be formally obtained as the slow time-varying component of the large-time asymptotics for the exact discrete solution on a moving point of observation.