Doctoral Thesis. – Spain, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,
Terrassa, 2006. – 164 p.
The main objective of the present thesis is to study the energy transfer by means of radiation. Therefore, the basic phenomenology of radiative heat transfer has been studied. However, considering the nature of the equation that describes such energy transfer, this work is focused on the numerical methods which will allow us to take radiation into account, for both transparent and participating media. Being this the
first effort within the CTTC (Centre Tecnologic de Transferencia de Calor) research group on this subject, it is limited to simple cartesian and cylindrical geometries.
Contents:
Radiative heat transfer
The Radiosity Irradiosity Method
The Discrete Ordinates Method
Radiative heat transfer in non gray media
Combined heat transfer (I): Gray media
Combined heat transfer (II): Non gray media
Analytical solutions of the radiative transfer equation
Basic mathematical details
Characterization of flows
The main objective of the present thesis is to study the energy transfer by means of radiation. Therefore, the basic phenomenology of radiative heat transfer has been studied. However, considering the nature of the equation that describes such energy transfer, this work is focused on the numerical methods which will allow us to take radiation into account, for both transparent and participating media. Being this the
first effort within the CTTC (Centre Tecnologic de Transferencia de Calor) research group on this subject, it is limited to simple cartesian and cylindrical geometries.
Contents:
Radiative heat transfer
The Radiosity Irradiosity Method
The Discrete Ordinates Method
Radiative heat transfer in non gray media
Combined heat transfer (I): Gray media
Combined heat transfer (II): Non gray media
Analytical solutions of the radiative transfer equation
Basic mathematical details
Characterization of flows