Effects of nonlinear gradient index on radiative heat transfer in a one-dimensional medium by the DRESOR method

Abstract

The DRESOR (Distribution of Ratios of Energy Scattered by the medium Or Reflected by the boundary surface) method is applied for radiative heat transfer in a one-dimensional medium with a nonlinear gradient index and gray boundary surfaces. In this proposed method, the DRESOR values calculated by the Monte Carlo method express quantitatively the impact of scattering on radiative transfer and the radiative intensity with high directional resolution of high precision can be easily obtained. With given media characteristics and boundary conditions, the temperature and radiative flux distributions inside the medium are calculated under the condition of radiative equilibrium. It is shown, in the cases studied, that the DRESOR method has a good accuracy. The temperature distributions have a node with different kinds of sine changed gradient index distributions under the same boundary emissivity. The impact of the gradient index on the radiative heat transfer is considerable, and the same as that of the ratios of its amplitude and average index. Besides, the effects of optical thickness, boundary emissivity and scattering phase function on radiative transfer also should be paid adequate attention.