Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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660119 | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2011 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Effects of thermal radiation on solidification heat transfer must be considered inside semitransparent media. This paper investigates coupled heat transfer of solidification and radiation within a two-dimensional rectangular semitransparent medium having gradient index. Solidification process is supposed to happen at some temperature range, and accordingly three zones including liquid-, solid- and mushy-zones exist in phase-change media. In different phase field, parameters of thermophysical property are assumed different and those of radiative property are assumed same. Governing equation includes conduction, radiation and phase-change terms, and radiation and phase-change are treated as source terms in the equation, respectively. A Galerkin finite element method is used to solve energy equation of coupled radiation and phase-change heat transfer. This paper analyzes effect of thermal radiation on phase-change heat transfer and those of refractive index distributions on temperature fields and liquid fraction distributions during radiation-solidification coupled heat transfer. From the results, we can find that refractive index gradient has a major influence on phase-change process and compared with the case of smaller index gradient, bigger gradient can speed up phase-change heat transfer in semitransparent media.
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Authors
Hong-Liang Yi, He-Ping Tan, Yu Zhou,