Efficient evaluation of diffuse view factors for radiation

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1281-1286

  Rammohan Rao, V ^a,c   Sastri, V M K ^b,c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; HEAT TRANSFER; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SURFACES; VECTORS;

CONTOUR INTEGRATION METHOD; DIFFUSE VIEW FACTORS; GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE METHOD; SIMPSON QUADRATURE METHOD; TRAPEZOIDAL QUADRATURE METHOD;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 0030127272     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0017-9310(95)00203-0     Document Type: Article

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