Date of Award
Summer 7-18-2013
Access Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Committee Chair
Eric R. Perrell
First Committee Member
L.L. Narayanaswami
Second Committee Member
William Engblom
Abstract
A computational tool to simulate thermal radiation between surfaces is developed. The output is verified against cases for which the analytical solutions are available. The tool can be used as a stand-alone program, or as an interactive module for CFD. In such an application the module would augment other heat transfer boundary conditions. The tool is demonstrated by post-processing surface temperature field data from a supersonic CFD calculation. The result is a net thermal radiation surface data field - the black body radiative effluxes as functions of temperature, less the integrated influxes multiplied by their geometric view factors from other surface cells. An algorithm to compute blocking, or "shadowing" of surfaces is presented and demonstrated on a simple geometry. Validations using a geometrically complex experimental case from the literature is performed.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Nutzati Fontaine, Jonathan L., "Computing Radiation Exchange" (2013). Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses. 114.
https://commons.erau.edu/edt/114
