Essentials of Radiation Heat Transfer

Preface
Contents
About the Author
1 Introduction
	1.1 Importance of Thermal Radiation
	1.2 Nature of Radiation
2 Black Body and Its Characteristics
	2.1 Key Attributes of a Black Body
	2.2 Radiation Isotropy
	2.3 Perfect Emitter in Every Direction
	2.4 Perfect Emitter in Every Wavelength
	2.5 Radiation is a Function of Temperature Alone
	2.6 Does Radiation Strength Increase or Decrease  With Temperature?
	2.7 Solid Angle—dω
		2.7.1 Spherical Coordinate System
		2.7.2 Solid Angle Subtended by an Elemental Area dAn in the Spherical Coordinate System
	2.8 Spectral or Monochromatic Radiation Intensity, Iλ,e
	2.9 Spectral Hemispherical Emissive Power
	2.10 Radiation Pressure
	2.11 Relationship Between the Intensity, I and Temperature, T
	2.12 Planck\'s Distribution
	2.13 The Rayleigh–Jeans Distribution
		2.13.1 Planck\'s Black Body Distribution Function
	2.14 Planck\'s Distribution—Salient Features
3 Radiative Properties of Non-black Surfaces
	3.1 Spectral Directional Emissivity, ε\'λ(λ, T,θ,φ)
	3.2 Hemispherical Spectral Emissivity, ε λ(λ,T)
	3.3 Directional Total Emissivity, ε\'(T,θ,φ)
	3.4 Hemispherical Total Emissivity, ε(T)
	3.5 Absorptivity, α
	3.6 Spectral Directional Absorptivity, α\'λ
	3.7 Hemispherical Spectral Absorptivity, αλ(λ,TA)
	3.8 Directional Total Absorptivity, α\'(TA,θ,φ)
	3.9 Hemispherical Total Absorptivity, α(TA)
	3.10 Reflectivity, ρ
	3.11 Transmissivity, τ
	3.12 Spectral Transmissivity τλ(λ, t)
	3.13 Optical Pyrometry
4 Radiation Heat Transfer Between Surfaces
	4.1 Enclosure Theory
	4.2 View Factor
	4.3 View Factor Algebra
	4.4 View Factors From Direct Integration
	4.5 Enclosure Analysis
		4.5.1 Radiosity-Irradiation Method
		4.5.2 Re-radiating Surface
5 Radiation in Participating Media
	5.1 Principal Difficulties in Studying Gas Radiation
	5.2 Important Properties for Study of Gas Radiation
	5.3 Equation of Transfer or Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE)
	5.4 Solution for the Straight Path
	5.5 Heat Fluxes
		5.5.1 Exponential Integral of Order n
		5.5.2 Salient Properties of E3(x)
		5.5.3 Enclosure Analysis in the Presence of an Absorbing or Emitting Gas
		5.5.4 Calculation of Emissivities and Absorptivities in Mixtures of Gases
6 Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Electromagnetic Spectrum
	6.3 Black Body Radiation
		6.3.1 Temperature of the Sun
		6.3.2 Temperature of the Earth
	6.4 Radiative Transfer Equation for a Plane Parallel Atmosphere
	6.5 Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) for an Absorbing and Emitting Atmosphere
	6.6 Infrared Remote Sensing
7 Inverse Problems in Radiation
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Least Squares Minimization for Parameter Estimation
	7.3 The Bayesian Method for Inverse Problems
		7.3.1 Bayesian Inference
		7.3.2 Steps Involved in Solving a Problem Using Bayesian Approach
Appendix  Bibliography
Index