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Radiative Properties of Gases

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Radiation transfer in high-temperature gas systems is critical in many engineering applications. Understanding the fundamental physical phenomena associated with radiative transfer in these environments is thus critical to predicting the physical phenomena. This chapter seeks to present the fundamental physics of radiative transfer in high-temperature gases and review the viable methods for predicting the associated radiative transfer. The general physical statements of gas radiation are first formulated. It is shown that the principal properties of molecular gases needed for the radiative transfer equation are the gas spectral absorption cross section and the spectral absorption coefficient. Radiation constants and equations are explicitly written in terms of wavenumber for gas radiation.

The fundamentals of the physical nature of gas radiation are presented to contextualize the spectral properties – what defines positions, strength, and shape of spectral lines at given temperature and pressure. The chapter provides the information needed to find and to read spectroscopic databases such as HITRAN and HITEMP and how to use the compiled data to assemble the gas absorption spectra for both the gas absorption cross section and the gas absorption coefficient.

The principles of narrow band models and global models of gas radiation are formulated. The statistical narrow band model with Malkmus’ distribution function of line strength for an array of Lorentz lines is presented, and its application for modeling of radiation transfer in nonuniform media is explained. The wide range of global models of gas radiation starting from gray model and weighted-sum-of-gray-gases model and their development into more advanced models such as SLW, ADF, and FSK is described. While more detailed attention is given to the SLW model, its relation to the FSK and ADF models is outlined. Finally, the application of global models for prediction of radiative transfer in nonuniform gaseous medium is presented.

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  1. Mechanical Engineering Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

    Vladimir P. Solovjov & Brent W. Webb

  2. Centre de Thermique et d’Energétique de Lyon, INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France

    Frederic Andre

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  1. Armour College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Sumanta Acharya

  2. Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

    Yaroslav Chudnovsky

  3. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Renato Machado Cotta

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

    Ram Devireddy

  5. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Vijay K. Dhir

  6. Cekmeköy Campus, Özyegin University, Çekmeköy - Istanbul, Turkey

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Solovjov, V.P., Webb, B.W., Andre, F. (2018). Radiative Properties of Gases. In: Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26695-4_59

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