RADIANT HEAT TRANSFER IN A SPHERICALLY SYMMETRIC MEDIUM,

Abstract

The radiant heat transfer from a spherically symmetric medium to an interior spherical boundary is considered. The medium is assumed to be gray with a constant absorption coefficient. Solutions are presented in terms of an emission function which may depend arbitrarily on the radial co-ordinate. The exact solution is obtained and compared with the known planar slab approximation. The differential approximation and a new extension of the differential approximation, in which only body orientated radiation is considered, are also applied to the same problem. Numerical values are obtained for emission functions having a power law dependence on distance from the inner boundary. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0640024

Entities

People

  • R. F. Chisnell

Organizations

  • Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Absorption Coefficients
  • Boundaries
  • Coefficients
  • Emission
  • Energy Transfer
  • Heat Transfer
  • Radiation

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Spectroscopy.