An iterative method for solving of coupled equations for conductive-radiative heat transfer in dielectric layers (Q1798509)

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the combined conductive-radiative heat transfer in a dielectric layer which emits, absorbs, and scatters IR radiation both in the layer's volume and on its boundary. The authors formulate a nonlinear stationary boundary value problem for the coupled integro-differential heat conduction equation and the radiation transfer equation for the layer, which exchanges by energy with external medium by convection and radiation. Features of the problem, depending on the layer's thickness, are studied with the use of dimensional analysis. A central result of this paper establishes that, if the layer's thickness is much more of a photon-free path, then the problem becomes a singularly perturbed one. In the inverse case of optically thin layer, the problem is regularly perturbed, and it becomes a regular (unperturbed) one, when the layer's thickness is of order of several photon's free paths.