A Semi-Analytical Description of Radiation Coupled with Thermal Wave Conductive Transfer in Inhomogeneous Solid Cylinder

Abstract

This study presents the analytical layered solution for thermal radiations coupled with non-Fourier conductive heat transfer, formulated from the Cattaneo-Vernotte flux model in inhomogeneous solid cylinder. This solution is built by combining the spherical harmonics for volumetric thermal radiations with the D1Q3 scheme of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for hyperbolic energy equation where the gradient of static particle distribution function was discretized at implicit time. The accuracy of the proposed model for dealing with radiation/conduction problems is investigated by considering a semitransparent radiative transfer in a cylinder with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and space dependent scattering albedo. The effects of different parameters, such as scattering albedo, refractive index, thermal conductivity, emissivity, optical thickness, and the conduction-radiation parameter on both radiations and temperature distributions for steady and transient states are studied. Results of the present work are benchmarked against those available in the literature with accuracy greater than 98.9% for a large interval of parameter sets and therefore, excellent agreement has been obtained. It also establishes from this study that the proposed layered approach is an efficient and accurate method for radiative analysis in inhomogeneous media while the D1Q3 scheme is suitable to accommodate thermal wave front in non-Fourier analysis.