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Use of CFD Codes for Calculation of Radiation Heat Transfer: From Validation to Application
In complex geometries, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) codes are commonly used to predict the heat and fluid transfer. To justify their use for the applications with dominant radiation heat transfer conditions, the implemented models need to be first appropriately validated on simple benchmark examples where the analytical solutions exist. The practical application discussed in this chapter considers the thermal radiation inside the vacuum vessel of the fusion reactor. Two representative benchmark examples are used to obtain the analytical solution and assess the accuracy of the real case simulations performed by CFD codes. The analytical solutions use the view factor method to calculate the net radiation heat flux on each radiating surface. Several numerical methods are available in the CFD codes to solve the thermal radiation problems. The discrete transfer method (DTM) is considered as one of the most efficient for solving the radiation fluxes between the surfaces in the case of radiatively non-participating fluid. Discussion includes description of fundamentals of analytical and numerical thermal radiation methods, validation of radiative heat exchange in simple enclosure problems, estimation of numerical errors and application to the practical case.
Part of the book: Heat Transfer