... Solar Receiver ,” Proceedings of the ASME Energy Sustainability Conference , Long Beach, CA, pp. 971 – 979 . [9] Hespel , L. , Mainguy , S. , and Greffet , J. J. , 2003 , “ Radiative Properties of Scattering and Absorbing Dense Media: Theory and Experimental Study ,” J. Quant...

... heat transfer porous materials thermal insulation thermal insulation EPS foams radiative heat transfer extinction coefficient scattering Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foams are cellular plastics, which are mostly used for the thermal insulation of buildings. In addition to a complex...

... a methodology to predict the patterns of nanosized particles and agglomerates subjected to surface plasmon waves. For this characterization, the scattering patterns of different types of particles and agglomerates on or near the surface are needed. A combination of the T-matrix method, image theory...

... details are given. The different domain discretization methods are presented, and a new angular space discretization is also given. Numerical examples are presented for 3D radiative transfer in emitting, absorbing, and scattering media. Computed results compare well with analytical solutions whenever...

... developed here may also help predict the BRDF for other rough surfaces with microstructures. silicon reflectivity atomic force microscopy Gaussian distribution elemental semiconductors rough surfaces surface topography geometrical optics Properties Radiation Roughness Scattering Surface...

...Oguzhan Guven; Yildiz Bayazitoglu Transient radiative heat transfer in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous rectangular medium is considered. The medium is gray, absorbing, emitting and strongly scattering, and bounded by cold, black walls. Inhomogeneous zones of various sizes are placed at different...

...Ravi Prasher Equation of phonon radiative transport (EPRT) is rewritten to include anisotropic scattering by a particulate media by including an acoustic phase function and an inscattering term which makes EPRT exactly same as equation of radiative transport (ERT). This formulation of EPRT...

... is reducible to a set of N-coupled second-order differential equations. The method is benchmarked against the exact and the discrete-ordinates method solutions for various optical radius and scattering albedos. Spatially varying scattering albedos are used to test the performance of the method in inhomogeneous...

... properties of the medium (absorption coefficient, scattering albedo, scattering phase function) are not required, and the drawback that its’ Snell- and Fresnel-generated dynamics suggest a limitation to large, smooth fibers. It is found that radiative heat flux results are highly dependent on bias...

.... 18 October 2001 10 June 2002 29 01 2003 Monte Carlo methods radiative transfer Heat Transfer Monte Carlo Radiation Scattering The “standard” Monte Carlo method for radiative heat transfer, as presented in various textbooks and review articles 1 2 3...

... and the scattering phase function of a thin hemispherical shell exposed to incident collimated radiation are calculated both analytically and numerically, and the results are discussed in detail. To further elucidate the results, the comparison is made of the total apparent transmittance of the hemispherical shell...

...Hong-Shun Li; Gilles Flamant; Ji-Dong Lu A novel method, the Double Rays Method (DRM), is proposed to capture the discontinuous nature of the radiation intensity, in order to reduce false scattering of the discrete ordinates method (DOM). Numerical tests demonstrate that the DRM successfully...

...L. M. Ruan; H. P. Tan In the present study, we use the Monte-Carlo (MC) method to simulate radiative heat transfer in three-dimensional inhomogeneous scattering unit cube with black or gray walls. The results show that the averaging method of non-uniform radiative properties in each medium element...

...Zekeriya Altac¸ The SK N (Synthetic Kernel) approximation is proposed for solving radiative transfer problems in linearly anisotropically scattering homogeneous and inhomogeneous participating plane-parallel medium. The radiative integral equations for the incident energy and the radiative heat...

...J. M. Goyhe´ne`che; J. F. Sacadura A new explicit matrix relation for the calculation of the total exchange areas (TEA) in emitting, absorbing and anisotropically scattering semi-transparent medium bounded by emitting, absorbing and anisotropically reflecting walls has been established. It has been...

... Scattering Solving the radiative transfer problems in a participating medium requires the solution of either the radiative transfer equation (RTE) for intensity or the integral transfer equation for incident radiation and the heat fluxes. A number of numerical methods have been developed for solving...

...Ravi S. Prasher and; Patrick E. Phelan The paper was listed in the Radiative Transfer category in the table of contents. The paper should have been in the Microscale Heat Transfer category. thermal resistance heat transfer scattering 1/f noise cryogenics contact...

...Isabel Malico; Jose´ Carlos F. Pereira, Mem. ASME The importance of radiation and of radiative properties (extinction coefficient, scattering albedo and scattering phase function) in inert porous media combustion was numerically assessed. The two-dimensional mass, momentum, solid and gas energy...

... or anisotropically scattering and the enclosure geometry is arbitrary. Cases with obstructions are emphasized. The radiative intensity is broken into two parts: the wall-related intensity and the medium-related intensity. The former is treated separately by rigorous integration over the entire solid boundary. A new...

...-equation coupling resulting from large absorption and scattering coefficients. This paper extends the use of the coupled ordinates method (COMET) to problems involving anisotropic scattering, where inter-equation coupling results from the in-scattering terms. A finite volume formulation for arbitrary...