Radiative Transfer Solutions for Purely Absorbing Gray and Nongray Gases Within a Cubical Enclosure

  • Published : 2001.06.01

Abstract

Although there are many different solution schemes proposed for multidimensional radiative transfer, reference solutions to benchmark these methods are very rare in the literature. In this paper we produced some accurate solutions for purely absorbing gray and nongray gases including H$_2$O and CO$_2$by using the discrete transfer method with sufficiently accurate T(sub)95 quadrature set. The spectral transmittances of the mixtures of H$_2$O and CO$_2$are estimated by using the narrow band model. The gray gas solutions are obtained for different absorption coefficients, and the nongray real gas solutions are obtained for different mixture fractions of H$_2$O and CO$_2$. The numerical solutions presented in this paper are proved to be sufficiently accurate as compared to the available exact solutions and they may be used as reference solutions in evaluating various solution schemes.

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