Numerical Study on the Influence of Radiative Properties in Porous Media Combustion

2001 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 951-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel Malico ◽  
Jose´ Carlos F. Pereira

The importance of radiation and of radiative properties (extinction coefficient, scattering albedo and scattering phase function) in inert porous media combustion was numerically assessed. The two-dimensional mass, momentum, solid and gas energy, and species conservation equations were solved. Emission, absorption and scattering by the porous media were taken into consideration and the S6 approximation was used to solve the radiative transfer equation. The temperature profiles are very sensitive to a perturbation in the radiative coefficients, particularly when the scattering albedo is increased. When compared to the isotropic scattering assumption, using zero, large diffuse spheres’, linear-anisotropic and modified Henyey–Greenstein phase functions leads to an average temperature difference no bigger than 7 percent. When radiation is neglected, the predicted temperature profile is not in agreement with the available experimental values.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gautham Krishnamoorthy ◽  
Caitlyn Wolf

This study assesses the required fidelities in modeling particle radiative properties and particle size distributions (PSDs) of combusting particles in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) investigations of radiative heat transfer during oxy-combustion of coal and biomass blends. Simulations of air and oxy-combustion of coal/biomass blends in a 0.5 MW combustion test facility were carried out and compared against recent measurements of incident radiative fluxes. The prediction variations to the combusting particle radiative properties, particle swelling during devolatilization, scattering phase function, biomass devolatilization models, and the resolution (diameter intervals) employed in the fuel PSD were assessed. While the wall incident radiative flux predictions compared reasonably well with the experimental measurements, accounting for the variations in the fuel, char and ash radiative properties were deemed to be important as they strongly influenced the incident radiative fluxes and the temperature predictions in these strongly radiating flames. In addition, particle swelling and the diameter intervals also influenced the incident radiative fluxes primarily by impacting the particle extinction coefficients. This study highlights the necessity for careful selection of particle radiative property, and diameter interval parameters and the need for fuel fragmentation models to adequately predict the fly ash PSD in CFD simulations of coal/biomass combustion.


1985 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 215-218
Author(s):  
S.S. Hong

AbstractA linear combination of 3 Henyey-Greenstein phase functions is substituted for the mean volume scattering phase function in the zodiacal light brightness integral. Results of the integral are then compared with the observed brightness to form residuals. Minimization of the residuals provides us with the best combination of Henyey-Greenstein functions for the scattering phase function of zodiacal dust particles.


1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 1192-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Liu ◽  
P. R. Jonas ◽  
C. P. R. Saunders

Abstract. Phase functions have been calculated using the Monte Carlo/geometric ray tracing method for single hexagonal pyramidal ice crystals (such as solid and hollow bullets) randomly oriented in space and horizontal plane, in order to study the concentric halo formations. Results from three dimensional model calculations show that 9° halo can be as bright as the common 22° halo for pyramidal angle of 28°, and the 18°, 20°, 24° and 35° halos cannot be seen due to the strong 22° halo domination in the scattering phase function between 18° and 35°. For solid pyramidal ice crystals randomly oriented horizontally, the 35° arc can be produced and its intensity depends on the incident ray solar angle and the particle aspect ratio.


1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Mengu¨c¸ ◽  
R. Viskanta

A solution of the radiative transfer equation for an axisymmetric cylindrical enclosure containing radiatively participating gases and particles is presented. Nonhomogeneities of the radiative properties of the medium as well as of the radiation characteristics of the boundaries are allowed for, and the boundaries are assumed to be diffusely emitting and reflecting. The scattering phase function is represented by the delta-Eddington approximation to account for highly forward scattering by particulates. The model for radiative transfer is based on the P1 and P3-spherical harmonics approximations. Numerical solutions of model equations are obtained using finite-difference as well as finite-element schemes.


2016 ◽  
Vol 139 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery V. Cherepanov ◽  
Oleg M. Alifanov

This work gives a brief description of the statistical model that takes into account when calculating the physical, in particular, the optical properties of some ultraporous nonmetallic high-temperature materials, the real regularities of the material structure, and the physical properties of substances constituting the material. For the spectral part of the model, some tests are presented, confirming its adequacy. The simulation of the spectra and the scattering of monochromatic radiation pattern by using the representative elements of the model and the material as a whole are carried out. It is found that despite the fact that the scattering pattern based on the use of representative elements of a material can be approximated by the classical distributions, this is not true for the material as a whole. Calculations of the angular scattering probability density of the materials are carried out, and the approximations of obtained distributions that extend the class of modeling scattering phase functions (SPF) are proposed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 327-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenyi Lin ◽  
Nan Chen ◽  
Yongzhen Fan ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Knut Stamnes ◽  
...  

The treatment of strongly anisotropic scattering phase functions is still a challenge for accurate radiance computations. The new delta- M+ method resolves this problem by introducing a reliable, fast, accurate, and easy-to-use Legendre expansion of the scattering phase function with modified moments. Delta- M+ is an upgrade of the widely used delta- M method that truncates the forward scattering peak with a Dirac delta function, where the “+” symbol indicates that it essentially matches moments beyond the first M terms. Compared with the original delta- M method, delta- M+ has the same computational efficiency, but for radiance computations, the accuracy and stability have been increased dramatically.


Author(s):  
Siu-Chun Lee

The influence of the geometric arrangement of fiber bundles on the radiative properties of high density woven fiber composites are examined in this paper. Of particular interest is the effect of the polar orientation of fiber bundles on the angular variation of the extinction and scattering coefficients and scattering phase function. The configuration effect is examined by numerical analyses on four types of cross-ply composites with fiber bundles at specific polar inclinations. The numerical analyses utilized the theoretical model that accounts for dependent scattering within, and uncorrelated scattering between, the dense fiber bundles. The extinction and scattering coefficients and scattering phase function are shown to depend strongly on the spatial orientation of the fiber bundles. These results indicate the feasibility of customizing the radiative properties and thus radiative transport by tailoring the geometric configuration of the fiber bundles.


Author(s):  
A.A. Lisenko ◽  
◽  
V.S. Shamanaev ◽  

The effect of the scattering phase functions of sea water types by the Petzold classification on the characteristics of signals of an airborne lidar is investigated using the Monte Carlo method. It is shown that for pure and coastal waters, the single scattering approximation is applicable for solving the laser sensing equation. Based on the analysis of the results obtained in the closed numerical experiment, the method of reconstruction of the extinction coefficient of lidar signals by pure and coastal sea waters in the mixing water layer is proposed and substantiated. The obtained results can be used to expand the possibilities of lidar signal interpretation, especially in complex and ambiguous situations.


2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Bhattacharjee ◽  
D. Deb ◽  
H. S. Das ◽  
A. K. Sen ◽  
R. Gupta

AbstractBidirectional reflectance of a surface is defined as the ratio of the scattered radiation at the detector to the incident irradiance as a function of geometry. Accurate knowledge of the bidirectional reflection function for layers composed of discrete, randomly positioned scattering particles is essential for many remote sensing, engineering, and biophysical applications, as well as for different areas of astrophysics. Computations of bidirectional reflection functions for plane parallel particulate layers are usually reduced to solving the radiative transfer equation by the existing techniques. In this work we present our laboratory data on bidirectional reflectance versus phase angle for two sample sizes of alumina, 0.3 and 1 μm, for the He–Ne laser at wavelengths of 632.8 nm (red) and 543.5 nm (green). The nature of the phase curves of the asteroids depends on the parameters like particle size, composition, porosity, roughness, etc. In the present study we analyze data which are being generated using a single scattering phase function, that is, Mie theory of treating particles as a compact sphere. The well-known Hapke formula, along with different particle phase functions such as Mie and Henyey–Greenstein, will be used to model the laboratory data obtained at the asteroid laboratory of Assam University.


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