TY - BOOK AU - Modest, Michael F. TI - Radiative heat transfer SN - 9780123869449 AV - QC 320 .M63 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - San Diego, California PB - Elsevier Science KW - ENERGY TRANSFER N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Fundamentals of thermal radiation -- Radiative property predictions from electromagnetic wave theory -- Radiative properties of real surfaces -- View factors -- Radiative exchange between gray, diffuse surfaces -- Radiative exchange between partially specular gray surfaces -- Radiative exchange between nonideal surfaces -- The Monte Carlo method for surface exhange -- Surface radiative exchange in the presence of conduction and convection -- The radiative transfer equation in participating media (RTE) -- Radiative properties of molecular gases -- Radiative properties of particulate media -- Radiative properties semitransparent media -- Exact solutions for one-dimensional gray media -- Approximate solution methods for one-dimensional media -- The method of spherical harmonics (PN-Approximation) -- The method of discrete ordinates (SN-Approximation) -- The zonal method -- Collimated irradiation and transient phenomena -- Solution methods for nongray extinction coefficients -- The Monte Carlo method for participating media -- Radiation combined with conduction and convection -- Inverse radiative heat transfer -- Nanoscale radiative transfer N2 - The third edition of Radiative Heat Transfer describes the basic physics of radiation heat transfer. The book provides models, methodologies, and calculations essential in solving research problems in a variety of industries, including solar and nuclear energy, nanotechnology, biomedical, and environmental. Every chapter of Radiative Heat Transfer offers uncluttered nomenclature, numerous worked examples, and a large number of problems-many based on real world situations-making it ideal for classroom use as well as for self-study ER -