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A Prelude to the Fundamentals and Applications of Radiation Transfer

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Radiation transfer is one of the three pillars of heat transfer processes, along with conduction and convection. It is essential for any high-temperature industrial process taking place in combustion chambers, flames and fires, manufacturing processes, energy harvesting systems, atmospheric processes, large-scale and local thermal management problems, as well as in high-resolution thermal sensing and control applications. This chapter provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of radiation transfer, including the Planck law, Wien law, radiative intensity, solid angle, and radiative transfer equation. It is a prelude to the eight related chapters in this handbook, and provides an overview that leads to detailed discussion of the radiative transfer equation and its solution, the radiative properties of particles and gases, applications in combustion chambers, inverse problems, near-field radiation transfer, and advances in surface optical and radiative properties.

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  1. Cekmeköy Campus, Özyegin University, Çekmeköy - Istanbul, Turkey

    M. Pinar Mengüç

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  1. Armour College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Sumanta Acharya

  2. Gas Technology Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

    Yaroslav Chudnovsky

  3. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Renato Machado Cotta

  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

    Ram Devireddy

  5. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Vijay K. Dhir

  6. Cekmeköy Campus, Özyegin University, Çekmeköy - Istanbul, Turkey

    M. Pinar Mengüç

  7. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science + Engineering, University of Toronto, Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Javad Mostaghimi

  8. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California, USA

    Kambiz Vafai

  9. Cekmeköy Campus, Özyegin University, Çekmeköy - Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Mengüç

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Mengüç, M.P. (2018). A Prelude to the Fundamentals and Applications of Radiation Transfer. In: Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26695-4_55

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