Lateral heat transfer in conducting and mutually irradiating plates

Abstract

Lateral heat transfer effect in conducting and mutually irradiating parallel plates has been investigated. The effect of reflection in the diffuse-specular regime has been included. The governing equation of this problem is a complicated integro-differential equation, and this has been solved using the accurate Gauss-Jacobi orthogonal collocation method. The effective thermal conductivity along the lateral direction increases with decreasing conduction-radiation number, increasing emittance of the plates and increasing spacing. Specular reflection effects are insignificant.