A computational method for solving a class of coupled conductive-radiative heat transfer problems.
Abstract
The PN method, also called the spherical harmonics method, is used along with Hermite cubic splines to define an iterative technique for solving a class of nonlinear problems in radiative transfer. Anisotropic scattering and specularly and diffusely reflecting boundaries are allowed for the steady-state, combined-mode, conductive-radiative, heat transfer problem considered. Computational aspects of the technique are discussed, and the method is used to establish the reported numerical results.
- Publication:
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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
- Pub Date:
- May 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0022-4073(91)90011-E
- Bibcode:
- 1991JQSRT..45..273S
- Keywords:
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- Conductive Heat Transfer;
- Radiative Heat Transfer;
- Spherical Harmonics;
- Spline Functions;
- Iteration;
- Nonlinear Equations;
- Numerical Analysis;
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics