Analytical and numerical investigation of radiative heat transfer in semitransparent Media
Provides theoretical and numerical foundations for radiative heat transfer in semitransparent media, but the contribution is incremental as it extends existing methods to arbitrary geometries.
The paper proves existence and uniqueness of solutions to radiative integral transfer equations and develops a boundary element method with an element-subdivision algorithm for non-convex geometries, demonstrating effectiveness through examples.
This paper is devoted to deal with some mathematical and numerical aspects of the radiative integral transfer equations. First, the properties of the raidative integral operators are analyzed. Based on these results, the existence and uniqueness of solution to the radiative integral system is proved by the reversibility of operator matrix. Besides, the convergence analysis of an iterative scheme is also carried out. Then, boundary element method based on the collocation scheme is used to discretize the radiative integral system. Arbitrary enclosure geometry is considered. For the non-convex geometries, an element-subdivision algorithm is developed to handle with the integrals contained the visibility factor. Finally, examples are presented to verify the effectiveness and accuracy of our method.