Thermal radiative properties are significant to radiative transfer processes in semitransparent media.In order to calculate thermal radiative properties,conventional Mie formulism and its various abbreviations are gen...Thermal radiative properties are significant to radiative transfer processes in semitransparent media.In order to calculate thermal radiative properties,conventional Mie formulism and its various abbreviations are generally used,which are based upon electromagnetic scattering by a sphere submerged in a non absorbing medium.For some semitransparent porous media such as ceramics where the matrix is absorbing,the conventional Mie solution is no longer valid.In this study a rigid Mie solution of electromagnetic scattering by a sphere in an absorbing medium is introduced to analyze the radiative properties of such a medium,and reliability of conventional Mie formulism is also tested.Parametric studies show that scattering coefficient and phase function of porous media are influenced significantly by matrix refractive index and size parameter.The matrix absorbing index usually has little influence.But when the absorbing index is greater than 0.01,especially under the condition where the size parameter is greater than 30,the conventional Mie formulism is not appropriate.Such a porous media may exhibit scattering or absorbing dominated characters under different conditions and an optimal pore diameter exists for a specified wavelength,which decreases with the matrix refractive index.展开更多
A detailed numerical modeling is performed to investigate heat transfer in high-porous, high-temperature non-gray semitransparent silica insulation materials. Radiation between fibers, conduction within fibers and con...A detailed numerical modeling is performed to investigate heat transfer in high-porous, high-temperature non-gray semitransparent silica insulation materials. Radiation between fibers, conduction within fibers and convection from the fibers to the surrounding fluid are considered. Macroscopic (porous media) modeling is used to determine the velocity, pressure and temperatures fields for fibrous insulation with a random packing geometry under natural convection. Based on a non-gray application of the solution to the radiative transfer equation, the value of the refractive index(n,m)is used to generate macroscopic average radiative properties such as extinction coefficient, scattering albedo and phase function. Key features of the macroscopic model include two-dimensional effects,non-gray radiative exchange, and the relaxation of the local thermodynamic non-equilibrium. The effectiveness of this numerical model is validated by the previous experimental data.展开更多
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50776026,90816022)
文摘Thermal radiative properties are significant to radiative transfer processes in semitransparent media.In order to calculate thermal radiative properties,conventional Mie formulism and its various abbreviations are generally used,which are based upon electromagnetic scattering by a sphere submerged in a non absorbing medium.For some semitransparent porous media such as ceramics where the matrix is absorbing,the conventional Mie solution is no longer valid.In this study a rigid Mie solution of electromagnetic scattering by a sphere in an absorbing medium is introduced to analyze the radiative properties of such a medium,and reliability of conventional Mie formulism is also tested.Parametric studies show that scattering coefficient and phase function of porous media are influenced significantly by matrix refractive index and size parameter.The matrix absorbing index usually has little influence.But when the absorbing index is greater than 0.01,especially under the condition where the size parameter is greater than 30,the conventional Mie formulism is not appropriate.Such a porous media may exhibit scattering or absorbing dominated characters under different conditions and an optimal pore diameter exists for a specified wavelength,which decreases with the matrix refractive index.
文摘A detailed numerical modeling is performed to investigate heat transfer in high-porous, high-temperature non-gray semitransparent silica insulation materials. Radiation between fibers, conduction within fibers and convection from the fibers to the surrounding fluid are considered. Macroscopic (porous media) modeling is used to determine the velocity, pressure and temperatures fields for fibrous insulation with a random packing geometry under natural convection. Based on a non-gray application of the solution to the radiative transfer equation, the value of the refractive index(n,m)is used to generate macroscopic average radiative properties such as extinction coefficient, scattering albedo and phase function. Key features of the macroscopic model include two-dimensional effects,non-gray radiative exchange, and the relaxation of the local thermodynamic non-equilibrium. The effectiveness of this numerical model is validated by the previous experimental data.