Numerical study of thermal radiation heat transfer using lattice Boltzmann method

Abstract

In this work, we present an extension of the lattice Boltzmann method for solving radiative transfer equation (RTE) in emitting, absorbing, and non-scattering gaseous mixtures produced by combustion. A numerical procedure based on LBM is first developed for a single absorption coefficient avoiding spectral effect (gray gas model). Therefore, an infrared radiative global model is associated with the LBM to assess the radiative heat exchanges in molecular gaseous mixtures. A global model based on absorption distribution function (ADF) and a D2Q16 scheme are implemented to solve the 2D RTE. Results are presented in terms of temperature, radiative heat flux, and volumetric radiative power. Effects of radiative behavior and spectral structure of gaseous mixtures are put in evidence. The application of the LBM-ADF8 to gaseous mixture produced by combustion emphasizes the importance of taking into account its spectral structures. The error induced by the gray media approximation is put in evidence.