DIFFERENTIAL TOTAL ABSORPTIVITY SOLUTION TO THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION FOR MIXTURES OF COMBUSTION GASES AND SOOT

Abstract

The differential total absorptivity (DTA) solution to the radiative transfer equation, originally devised for combustion gases in the discrete transfer radiation model, is extended to mixtures of gaseous combustion products and soot. The method is compared to other solution techniques for representative mixtures across single lines of sight and across a layer bounded by solid walls. Intermediate soot loadings are considered such that the total radiance is not dominated by either the gaseous or soot components. The DTA solution is shown to yield excellent accuracy relative to a narrow-band solution, with a considerable saving in computational cost. Thus, explicit treatment of the source temperature dependence of absorption is successfully demonstrated without the need for spectral integration.

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Address correspondence to Dr. P. A. Rubini, School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 OAL, England. E-mail: [email protected]