Syllabus
Overview of thermal radiation, radiation properties of surfaces, view factor for diffuse radiation,radiation exchange in black and diffuse gray enclosure, spectrally diffuse enclosure surfaces, secularly reflecting surfaces, Monte Carlo ray tracing, Windows, Coatings, Introduction to satellite thermal control.
Radiative transport equation in participating media, approximate solution methods for one dimen- sional media: Optically thick and optically thin approximations. Formal solution and one dimensional transfer. Moment methods: diffusion and spherical harmonics. Gas Radiation:Introduction to gas radiation, Plane parallel model, Diffusion approximation, radiative equilibrium,Optically thick limit, radiation spectroscopy, Isothermal gas emissivity, band models, total emissivity method, Isothermal gas enclosures.
Radiative transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media. The discrete ordinates method: spatial and angular discretization, false scattering and ray effects, the finite volume method. Handling interaction with other modes, heat radiation at micro/nanoscales.
Text Books
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References
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