MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF RADIATION HEAT TRANSFER FROM AN INFINITE PLANE TO PARALLEL ROWS OF INFINITELY LONG TUBES - HOTTEL EXTENDED

摘要

A two-dimensional Monte Carlo method has been applied to a classic radiant energy exchange problem that models the interior of an industrial furnace. The configuration involves a source as an infinite radiating plane and the heat sink as parallel rows of infinitely long tubes. Hottel used a graphical technique to solve this furnace model for the two-tube-row configuration. This work extends Hottel's results by increasing the number of rows in the original equilateral triangular array and then generalizing the results to isosceles triangular arrangements. [References: 9]