2.58
Radiative Transfer
Principles of thermal radiation and their application to engineering heat and photon transfer problems. Quantum and classical models of radiative properties of materials, electromagnetic wave theory for thermal radiation, radiative transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media, and coherent laser radiation. Applications cover laser-material interactions, imaging, infrared instrumentation, global warming, semiconductor manufacturing, combustion, furnaces, and high temperature processing.
Spring 2006
Topics
- Review of Basic Thermal Radiation Concepts, Blackbody Radiation
- View Factor, Simple Radiative Transfer
- Radiative Transfer in Enclosures
- Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.)
- EM Waves
- EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces
- EM Wave Modeling of Thin Films
- EM Wave Modeling of Particles
- Scattering Properties of Particulates
- Dielectric Properties of Solid, Drude Model
- Lorentz Model
- Radiative Properties of Gases
- Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.)
- First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book)
- Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media
- Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media
- Discrete Ordinate Method
- Spherical Harmonics Method
- Approximate Solutions
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- Presentation and Discussion on Global Warming
- Near Field Thermal Radiation, Fluctuation-dissipation Theory
- Near Field Thermal Radiation
- Solar Cells
- Coherent Radiation Source, Lasers
- Laser Materials Interactions
Readings
- Modest, Michael F. Radiative Heat Transfer . 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780125031639.
- All readings are from: Modest, Michael F. Radiative Heat Transfer . 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Academic, 2003. ISBN: 9780125031639.
- Lec #: 1 · Topics: Review of Basic Thermal Radiation Concepts, Blackbody Radiation · Readings: Chapter 1
- Lec #: 2 · Topics: View Factor, Simple Radiative Transfer · Readings: Chapter 4
- Lec #: 3 · Topics: Radiative Transfer in Enclosures · Readings: Chapters 5 and 6
- Lec #: 4 · Topics: Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.) · Readings: Chapters 5 and 6
- Lec #: 5 · Topics: EM Waves · Readings: Chapter 2
- Lec #: 6 · Topics: EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces · Readings: Chapters 2 and 3
- Lec #: 8 · Topics: EM Wave Modeling of Particles · Readings: Chapter 10
- Lec #: 9 · Topics: Scattering Properties of Particulates · Readings: Chapter 10
- Lec #: 12 · Topics: Radiative Properties of Gases · Readings: Chapter 9
- Lec #: 13 · Topics: Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.) · Readings: Chapter 9
- Lec #: 15 · Topics: Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media · Readings: Chapter 8
- Lec #: 16 · Topics: Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media · Readings: Chapter 12
- Lec #: 17 · Topics: Discrete Ordinate Method · Readings: Chapter 15
- Lec #: 18 · Topics: Spherical Harmonics Method · Readings: Chapter 14
- Lec #: 19 · Topics: Approximate Solutions · Readings: Chapters 13 and 14
- Lec #: 20 · Topics: Monte Carlo Simulation · Readings: Chapter 19
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: 2.51 , 10.302 , or permission of instructor G (Spring) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2006
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.