A comparison of angular discretization strategies for modeling radiative transfer in pool fire simulations

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1040-1051

  Krishnamoorthy, Gautham ^a  

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISCRETIZATION; ANGULAR RESOLUTION; DISCRETE ORDINATES; FINITE-VOLUME; OPTICAL THICKNESS; P-1 MODELS; POOL FIRES; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; SOOT CONCENTRATION; SPHERICAL SURFACE;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOOT;

FIRES;

EID: 84859796964     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457632.2012.659626     Document Type: Article

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