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Analytical Heat Transfer
calculate radiation heat transfer between two surfaces for many engineering
applications. However, at the intermediate-level heat transfer, students are
expected to focus more on how to derive view factors instead of how to use
them. In particular, students are expected to know how to determine the view
factors by using Hottel’s string method for many 2-D geometries. For 3-D
geometry view factors, we do not go into much detail because of the required
double-area integrations that belong to advanced radiation heat transfer.
PROBLEMS
12.1 Determine the view factors for Examples 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively.
12.2 Determine the view factors shown in Table 12.1.
12.3 Determine the view factors shown in Table 12.2.
References
1. W. Rohsenow and H. Choi, Heat, Mass, and Momentum Transfer, Prentice-Hall, Inc.,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1961.
2. A. Mills, Heat Transfer, Richard D. Irwin, Inc., Boston, MA, 1992.
3. K.-F.V. Wong, Intermediate Heat Transfer, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 2003.
4. F. Incropera and D. Dewitt, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, John Wiley &
Sons, Fifth Edition, New York, NY, 2002.