Meshless method for solving coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer in complex multi-dimensional geometries (Q449474)

This paper presents an application of a diffusive approximation meshless method (DAM) for solving the coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer problem in a semi-transparent medium enclosed in complex 2D and 3D geometries. The meshless method for radiative transfer is based on the even parity formulation of the discrete ordinates method, which uses numerical quadratures to approximate the integrals appearing in the calculation of the incident radiation and radiative fluxes and employs discretization of the angular space by a finite number of directions along which the radiative transfer equations are solved. The cases of combined conduction-radiation for two-dimensional (square, cylindrical ring, elliptical ring, half elliptical ring enclosure) and three-dimensional (cubic and cylindrical enclosure) problems are presented, the results are compared with other approximate benchmark results, and a good agreement is observed. The results show that the diffusive approximation method has a good accuracy in solving radiative-conductive heat transfer in absorbing, emitting and scattering media in complex geometries. The coupled convection-radiation problems can be solved by a similar approach.