Zonal modeling of radiative heat transfer in industrial furnaces using simplified model for exchange area calculation

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 16-17, 2013, Pages 8004-8015

  Ebrahimi, Hadi ^a   Zamaniyan, Akbar ^a   Soltan Mohammadzadeh, Jafar S ^b   Khalili, Ali Asghar ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM INDUSTRY RIPI   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exchange area; Furnace; Mathematical modeling; Radiation heat transfer; Zone method

Indexed keywords

AREA CALCULATION; CPU TIME; DIRECT EXCHANGE AREAS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONS; ZONE METHOD;

FURNACES; HEAT RADIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INDUSTRIAL FURNACES;

EID: 84881553104     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2013.02.053     Document Type: Article

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