Prediction of thermal emission and exchange among neighboring wavelength-sized spheres

Journal of Heat Transfer

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Mackowski, Daniel W ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Nanoscale heat transfer; Radiative heat transfer; Spheres

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; EFFECTIVE AREA; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; ENERGY CONSERVATION PRINCIPLE; FAR-FIELD ZONES; FINITE WAVELENGTH; GAP THICKNESS; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; INCIDENT FIELDS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATIVE EMISSIONS; RADIATIVE EXCHANGE; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SPECTRAL EMISSION; THERMAL EMISSIONS; TIME HARMONIC WAVE EQUATION; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT RADIATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WAVE EQUATIONS;

SPHERES;

EID: 72249122231     PISSN: 00221481     EISSN: 15288943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2957596     Document Type: Article

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