Subject Code: ME6L164
Prerequisites: None		 Numerical Methods in Radiative Heat Transfer L – T – P : 3 –0 – 0 Credits: 3  
Fundamentals of thermal radiation; Radiative transfer without participating media; Radiative transfer with participating media; Governing equations in radiative transfer analysis with participating media; Methods for solving radiative transfer problems - analytic method, Monte Carlo method, zonal method, flux method, P-N approximation, discrete ordinate method, finite element method, discrete transfer method, finite volume method, collapsed dimension method. Application of numerical methods for solving conjugate radiation, conduction and/or convection problems in 1-D and 2-D Cartesian and axi-symmetric geometry.
Recommended Books:
  1. Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer, R. Siegel and J.R.Howell, Taylor & Francis, 2002.
  2. Radiation Heat Transfer, E.M.Sparrow and R.D.Cess, Wadsworth, 1966.
  3. Radiative Transfer, H.C.Hottel and A.F.Saroffim, McGraw hill, 1967.
  4. Radiative Heat Transfer, M.F.Modest, McGraw Hill, 2003.