ME 766: Advanced Heat Transfer III-Radiation

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766 Advanced Heat Transfer III Radiation. I, Odd Yrs; 3 cr. Analysis, including the nature of thermal radiation; radiative characteristics of surfaces; radiative heat transfer in evacuated enclosures and in enclosures containing an absorbing and emitting or a scattering medium. Techniques for obtaining solution to the governing integral equations; lumped-system approximation, successive approximations, variational methods and quadratures. P: ME 564 or cons inst.

Course Prerequisite(s)

See catalog description above.

Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills

Calculus
Heat transfer

Textbook(s) and/or other required material

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

Topics covered

Analysis, including the nature of thermal radiation.
Radiation properties.
Radiative characteristics of surfaces.
Radiative heat transfer in enclosures:

Evacuated
Containing an absorbing and emitting or a scattering medium.

Novel solution methods:
F-hat
Script F
Gebhart

Techniques for obtaining solution to the governing integral equations:

Exact solutions
Lumped-system approximation
Successive approximations
Variational methods and quadratures

Specular surfaces.
Windows.
Gas radiation.
Particulate media.
Nonideal, gray and nongray surfaces.

Person(s) who prepared this description

William A. Beckman

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Date last modified: 04-Aug-2007
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