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Radiative Transfer in Combustion Systems: Fundamentals and Applications

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Destined to clarify the research, development, and design requirements in modern and computational terms needed for sustainable technological advances. Written for the combustion scientist/engineer to understand radiative effects on the pollution of the environment. Interrelates the process of thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and turbulence. Includes computational design tools. Lays the foundation for modeling and prediction of chemically reacting combustion systems; collects data for operation of combustion devices. Analyzes the construction, use, and numerical results of combustion systems simulation.



460 pages, ©2005

RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN COMBUSTION SYSTEMS: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS / Chapter 5: Radiation Characteristics of Particles and Particle/Gas Mixtures

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Chapter 5: Radiation Characteristics of Particles and Particle/Gas Mixtures

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Absorption and Scattering from a Single Sphere: Mie Theory

5.2.1 Mie efficiency factors

5.2.2 Limiting solutions for efficiency factors

5.2.3 Scattering distribution (phase) function

5.3 Absorption and Scattering by Nonspherical Particles

5.4 Radiation Characteristics of Polydispersions

5.4.1 Extincion coefficients and scattering albedo

5.4.2 Calculation of mean characteristics

5.5 Internal Distribution of Absorbed Radiation within an Irradiated Sphere

5.5.1 EM theory

5.5.2 Geometric optics approach

5.6 Radiation Characteristics of Soot Particles in Flames

5.6.1 Spectral absorption coefficient

5.6.2 Total directional emittance

5.6.3 Mean absorption coefficients of soot

5.7 Total Emittance of Gas/Soot Mixtures

5.8 Spectral Radiation Characteristics of Gas/Particle Mixtures

5.8.1 Spectral hemispherical characteristics

5.8.2 Total hemispherical characteristics of mixtures

5.9 Concluding Summary Remarks

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