Thermal Radiation Fundamentals

Table of contents:

19 INFINITESIMAL-AREA ANALYSIS

19.1 Introduction

19.2 Formulation

19.2.1 Assumptions and Terminology

19.2.2 Integral Equations

19.2.3 Reduction to a Single Integral Equation

19.2.4 Generalized Enclosure Representation

19.3 Solving the Integral Equation Numerically

19.4 Infinitesimal-Area Exchange Factors

19.5 Published Solutions

19.6 Errors in the Lumped-Area Method

19.7 Single-Variable Enclosures

19.7.1 The Axi-invariant Enclosure

19.8 One Gray Surface and the Rest Black

19.8.1 Example Problem

19.9 Concluding Remarks

19.10 Problems

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