Simulating Nonequilibrium Radiation via Orthogonal Polynomial Refinement

Abstract

The complex nonequilibrium radiative simulation for high-speed flow is built on the interlocking phenomena between quantum physics, aerodynamics with nonequilibrium chemical reaction, and radiation transfer. All dominant chemical-physical phenomena are occurred at the molecular/atomic scales and all radiative energy transfers are also taken place at the quantum transitions of internal degrees of freedom by molecules or atoms, thus the phenomenon must be modeled. In addition, the chemical species concentrations and its associated thermodynamic states of an in homogeneous flowing medium are solved on a coordinate system according to the flowfield structure. On the other hand, the radiation energy transmission follows the line-of-the-sight path of electromagnetic waves. Therefore, two intrinsically different coordinates are required to simulate simultaneously the multi-disciplinary phenomenon. Meanwhile the spectral properties such as the emission and absorption are exclusively tied to the local thermodynamic state and compositions of the flow medium. The required optical parameters for the nonequilibrium phenomena simulation need to be determined from data bases which are derived from quantum physics and transmit across the two different coordinates by a nearest neighbor search algorithm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 07, 2015
Accession Number
ADA616485

Entities

People

  • Joseph J. Shang

Organizations

  • Wright State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Combustion
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Energy
  • Energy Transfer
  • Equations
  • Flow
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Resolution
  • Physics
  • Quantum Mechanics
  • Radiation
  • Ray Tracing
  • Simulations

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing