About this course:

  • Course Name: Radiative Heat Transfer in Participating Media
  • Course Code: ME 603
  • L-T-P-C : 3-0-0-6
  • Syllabus: Download
  • Course Type: Department Elective


    • Radiative Heat Transfer in Participating Media

    Description:

    Fundamentals of thermal radiation; Review of surface radiation- Radiative properties of real surfaces, View factors ; Radiative exchange between gray, diffuse surfaces; The equation of radiative heat transfer in participating media; Radiative properties of molecular gases and particulate media; Exact solutions of one-dimensional gray media; Approximate solution methods for one-dimensional media; Zone method; Spherical harmonics method; Discrete ordinate method; Discrete transfer method; Monte Carlo method; Finite volume method. Radiation combined with conduction and convection.

    Textbooks

    [1] M. F. Modest, Radiative Heat Transfer, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

    [2] R. Siegel and J. R. Howell, Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, 3rd ed, Taylor and Francis, 1992.