O presente trabalho tem por objetivo estudar as Interações Turbulência-Radiação em um escoamento não reativo para meios participantes. Estas interações caracterizam-se por um complexo fenômeno transiente, devido à combinação de dois fenômenos, unindo as características das flutuações da turbulência e da elevada não linearidade do fenômeno da radiação térmica. O estudo consiste em análise numérica do problema por dinâmica de fluidos computacional, através da utilização do Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), um software Open-Source, na qual a modelagem da turbulência é feita através da Simulação de Grandes Escalas. Como se trata de um software novo, bem como sendo introduzido no grupo de pesquisa, primeiramente é realizada a simulação de um caso benchmark para verificação e avaliação da formulação numérica. A análise do TRI é realizada em um problema proposto baseado em trocadores de calor reais utilizados em máquinas térmicas, como por exemplo, geradores de vapor ou coletores de escapamento de motores, envolvendo transferência combinada de convecção forçada e radiação térmica. A metodologia de avaliação consiste em comparar o fluxo radiante médio nas fronteiras obtido através da simulação transiente e compará-lo com o fluxo obtido por meio do campo médio temporal de temperaturas. São avaliadas a influência da intensidade de turbulência na entrada do escoamento, assim como a da espessura óptica, ambos relevantes para os efeitos do TRI. Conforme descrito pela literatura, neste tipo de problema as interações podem ser negligenciadas, confirmando os resultados obtidos, da ordem de 2% para o fluxo radiante. / This dissertation has the objective of analyzing the Turbulence-Radiation Interaction for a non-reactive flow with a participating media. These interactions are characterized by complex transient effects, due to the combination of two phenomena, coupling the scalar fluctuations of the turbulence and the highly non-linearity of thermal radiation. The study consists in a numerical analysis through Computational Fluid Dynamics, using the Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS), an Open-Source software, which employs the Large Eddy Simulation method. Because the software is under development and new in the research group, it will be performed the simulation of a benchmark case for verification and evaluation of the numerical methodology. The TRI analysis will be performed in a proposed problem, based on real heat exchangers, as an example, steam generators or exhaust manifold of combustion engines, involving combined heat transfer between forced convection and radiative heat transfer. The methodology consists in evaluating the radiative mean heat flux obtained by the transient simulation and compare it with the flux obtained with the time-averaged temperature field. It will be evaluated the influence of the turbulence intensity at the inlet and the optical thickness, both very important for the TRI effects. According to the literature, in this case the TRI effects could be neglected, confirming the obtained results, around 2% for the radiative heat flux.

A radiação térmica é um mecanismo de transferência de calor muito importante em processos que envolvem gases participantes, como CO2 e H2O, em temperaturas elevadas. A dependência altamente irregular do coeficiente de absorção em relação ao número de onda torna a integração linha-por-linha (LBL) da equação da transferência radiativa (RTE) impraticável, sobretudo em situações onde a radiação pode ser apenas parte de um problema mais complexo. Modelos espectrais globais, como a soma-ponderada-de-gases- cinza (WSGG) e a soma-ponderada-de-gases-cinza baseada em linhas espectrais (SLW), representam alternativas à integração LBL. Entretanto, alguns modelos requerem o uso da aproximação de escala (que assume que as dependências espacial e espectral da seção transversal de absorção são separáveis). Essa aproximação pode produzir erros consideráveis, principalmente quando existem gradientes elevados de temperatura e de concentração. Neste trabalho, os resultados de alguns modelos espectrais globais foram comparados com os da solução LBL. E, a partir de algumas proposições dos modelos WSGG e SLW (integração espectral através de gases cinza e intervalos espectrais fixos por meio da definição de uma temperatura de referência), foi desenvolvida a soma-ponderada-de-gases-cinza com coeficientes não constantes (NCC-WSGG). Nesse modelo, os coeficientes de absorção e de emissão para cada gás cinza são funções polinomiais da temperatura. O modelo NCC-WSGG foi aplicado em problemas unidimensionais e bidimensionais, envolvendo CO2, H2O e mistura dessas espécies químicas. Comparações com a solução LBL mostraram que o NCC-WSGG pode fornecer resultados muito satisfatórios para o fluxo de calor e para o termo fonte radiativos em problemas não isotérmicos e não homogêneos. / The thermal radiation is a very important mechanism of heat transfer in processes that embody participating gases, as CO2 and H2O, at high temperature. The highly irregular dependence of the absorption coefficient with respect to the wavenumber makes the application of line-by-line (LBL) integration of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) prohibitive, principally in situations where the radiation can be only part of a more complex problem. Global spectral models, like the weighted-sum-of-gray-gases (WSGG) and the spectral line based weighted-sum-of-gray-gases (SLW), are alternatives to the LBL integration. However, some models demand the application of the scaling approximation (which assumes that the spatial and spectral dependences of the absorption cross-section are separable). This approximation can lead to pronounced errors, mainly under high gradients of temperature and concentration. In this work, some results obtained from global models were compared with the LBL solution. And, applying some proposals from WSGG and SLW models (spectral integration through gray gases and fixed spectral intervals by the definition of a reference condition), it was developed the nonconstant coefficient weighted-sum-of-gray-gases (NCC-WSGG). In this model, the absorption and emission coefficients of each gray gas are polynomials functions of the temperature. The model was applied to solve one and two dimensional problems, which were comprise of CO2, H2O and mixtures of these chemical species. Comparisons with the LBL solution showed that the NCC-WSGG can provide very good results for the heat flux and for the radiative heat source under nonisothermal and nonhomogeneous conditions.

A integração da equação da transferência radiante (RTE) é uma tarefa complexa devido a forte variação do coeficiente de absorção com relação ao número de onda. O modelo da soma ponderada dos gases cinza (WSGG) evita a integração linha por linha da RTE reduzindo o esforço computacional na resolução de problemas que envolvam gases participantes. Com a atualização dos coeficientes do WSGG, obtidos através do banco de dados HITEMP 2010, este trabalho se propôs a validá-los por meio de problemas unidimensionais de transferência de calor radiante. Os problemas são resolvidos pelo modelo WSGG e comparados com a solução obtida pela integração LBL (solução benchmark). Nas comparações foram utilizados diferentes perfis de temperatura, distâncias características, gradientes de temperatura e concentrações de espécies. Nos casos analisados é possível verificar uma boa concordância geral entre os resultados WSGG e LBL. O modelo também é testado na resolução de perfis advindos de seções de uma câmara de combustão cilíndrica que apresentaram condições diferentes para os quais os coeficientes WSGG foram propostos. Mesmo assim os resultados obtidos apresentaram uma boa concordância para o termo fonte radiante e para o fluxo de calor, sendo que os maiores erros foram observados na entrada da câmera onde os gradientes de temperatura são mais significativos. / The spectral integration of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) is still a complex task due to the strong variation of the absorption coefficient with the wavenumber. The Weighted-Sumof- Gray-Gases (WSGG) model avoids the Line-by-Line (LBL) integration of RTE. The aim of this study is to evaluate the updated WSGG coefficients, obtained from the database HITEMP 2010, in one-dimensional problems of radiative heat transfer. The problems are solved by the WSGG model and compared with the solution obtained by the LBL integration (benchmark solution). Various temperature and concentration profiles were evaluated and showed a good overall agreement between the WSGG and LBL results. The model was also tested by solving profiles arising from cylindrical combustion chamber and the obtained results showed good agreement for the radiative heat source term and the heat flux. The largest errors were observed near the chamber entrance where the temperature gradients are most significant.

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An infrared radiometry setup has been developed based on a commercially available FTIR spectrometer for measuring mid-infrared thermal radiation. The setup was calibrated with a lab-built blackbody source. The setup was tested with a grating structure with 4-micron periodicity. Periodic microstructures using nickel and gold are fabricated on elastomeric substrates by use of strain-induced buckling of the nickel layer. The intrinsically low emissivity of gold in the mid-infrared regime is selectively enhanced by the surface plasmonic resonance at three different mid-infrared wavelengths, 4.5 µm, 6.3 µm, and 9.4 µm. As the thermal emission enhancement effect exists only for the polarization perpendicular to the orientation of the microstructures, substantially polarized thermal emission with an extinction ratio of close to 3 is demonstrated. Moreover, the elastically deformed plasmonic thermal emitters demonstrate strain-dependent emission peaks, which can be applied for future mechano-thermal sensing and dynamic thermal signature modulation.

Dans le moyen infrarouge, il n’existe pas à l’heure actuelle de source bon marché, compacte et modulable rapidement en amplitude. L’émission thermique est souvent écartée à cause des propriétés du rayonnement de corps noir : il est large spectralement, isotrope, non polarisé et la fréquence de modulation en intensité est limitée à quelques hertz par l’inertie thermique des émetteurs.Cependant, aucune limite fondamentale n’impose ces inconvénients. L’objectif de cette thèse est de concevoir, fabriquer et caractériser des sources infrarouges incandescentes, de spectre et polarisation contrôlés, modulables au-delà du mégahertz. Les dispositifs que nous présentons reposent sur la modulation rapide de la température d’un émetteur de faible épaisseur, posé sur un substrat qui demeure froid : en effet, la conduction permet de le refroidir en un temps qui dépend quadratiquement de l’épaisseur.Dans un premier temps, nous présentons une source émettant en bande II (3 – 5 microns) fondée sur le principe de l’écran de Salisbury ; sa réponse en fréquence est caractérisée jusqu’à la dizaine de mégahertz.Puis nous modifions cette structure pour utiliser un réseau métallique sub-longueur d’onde et faisons ainsi la démonstration d’une source en bande II modulable et polarisée linéairement.Enfin, nous proposons plusieurs dispositifs pouvant rayonner avec une polarisation circulaire ainsi qu’une source en bande III (8 – 12 microns) constituée d’une métasurface de nano-émetteurs chauds couplés à des nano-antennes froides. / Currently, there is no available source in the mid-infrared range which can be cheap, compact, and whose intensity can be modulated at high frequency. For this purpose, thermal radiation is often considered irrelevant because of the blackbody properties: it is intrinsically broadband, isotropic, unpolarized and the intensity modulation rate is usually limited to a few hertz by thermal inertia.However, there is no fundamental limit that imposes these properties. The goal of this thesis is to design, fabricate and experimentally characterize infrared incandescent sources with a controlled spectrum and polarization and with an intensity that can be modulated faster than 10 megahertz. We present devices which rely on fast temperature modulation of a thin emitter placed on a cold substrate. Indeed, thanks to heat conduction, this emitter can cool down within a characteristic time which varies as the square of its thickness.Firstly, we show a device emitting in MWIR (mid-wave infrared, 3 – 5 microns) based on the Salisbury screen’s principle. We characterize its frequency response up to 10 MHz.Then, we modify this structure and use instead a sub-wavelength metallic grating, thus demonstrating a MWIR source linearly polarized with the same modulation properties.Finally, we propose several devices which can emit circularly polarized infrared radiation and a source operating in LWIR (long-wave infrared, 8 – 12 microns) consisting in a metasurface of hot nano-emitters coupled to cold nano-antennas.

For modeling thermal heat transfer, not only the effects of convection and conduction are relevant, but also thermal and visible radiation. Radiation is especially important for setups with large temperature differences, as well as for interaction with external light sources.Common computational fluid dynamic models usually treat radiation transport as a minor effect, that can be handled by simplified algorithms. All these normal models, e.g. surface to surface model, discrete transfer model, P_N method, discrete ordinates model, exhibit disadvantages in the computing performance and the physical modeling. Hence, there are many technical applications, where the fluid simulation are limited both in accuracy and calculation time by the available radiation model. As exemplary cases combustion chambers, smoke and soot creation, solar power generation, UV water disinfection, condensation in car headlights, fusion and fission reactor chambers, electric arc movement, as well as low-emissivity glass windows can be named. In the fields investigating radiation as main effect, e.g. cinematic 3d animation or illumination simulation for lamps and workspaces, the mentioned methods are not in use anymore as ray tracing is the first choice. In this work, the existing methods for ray tracing were adapted and implemented with the goal to interact with fluid flow simulations and replace existing radiation modeling. This can be regarded as innovative, interdisciplinary method for the interaction of fluids and solids with radiation, incorporating physical effects that could not be included in previous simulations. While in usual light calculations, the geometry exists solely in the form of surfaces and their triangulation, fluid flow requires volumetric calculation grids. Hence, methods are implemented that actually use the volumetric grid, and incorporate volumetric effects with little additional effort. Spectral volumetric path tracing with Monte Carlo integrated, importance sampled emission was hence the method of choice for this work. The implemented ray tracer is able to emit radiation from point sources, geometric surfaces, as well as from volumetric sources. Spectral dependence of material values is treated using radiation bands with hardly no increase of calculation time, whereas in all other models, the calculation time scales linearly with the amount of bands. Direct, diffuse and mixed surface reflection is modeled. The volumetric refraction index is implemented, so refraction is modeled, even including partial and total reflexion. The focusing of lenses or mirror systems can hence be simulated satisfactory, which cannot be treated sufficiently by any other radiation model. Surface and volumetric absorption are implemented, as well as surface and volumetric scattering effects. The radiation emission can be caused by a temperature field at surfaces and volumes. These fields are imported from software calculating the fluid and the thermal system. Ray tracing results in volumetric and surface heat sources that can be returned to the original code, and their effect further calculations. This coupling was implemented and tested with the commercial computational fluid dynamics code Fluent, using its plug-in interface. As most of Fluent's radiation models are only performed after a fixed number of implicit flow and turbulence iterations, no further disadvantages or limitations occur, that are not as well existing for the existing radiation simulations. A fully implicit treatment of radiation is unlikely to be performed, as stability is already sufficient for most applications. Of course, systems containing only heat sources caused by light and no secondary heat radiation can be treated by the implemented ray tracer with high performance. The implemented ray tracer is validated with analytically solved systems, and compared to quantitative simulation results of other simulation methods. Also, the scattering effects are validated against experimental and simulation results from literature. The observed calculation performance is similar or faster then for standard models with geometries of approximately 150000 volume elements, while the modeling is done more accurately. For larger models, even larger advantages can be expected.

<p>Understanding of thermal transport in small scales gains more importance with increasing demand in microelectronics and advancing fabrication technologies. In addition, scarce in energy sources adds more pressure with increasing expectations on research in energy conversion devices and renewable energies. In parallel to these, new phenomena observable only in small scales are discovered with the research, bringing more opportunities for engineers to solve real-world problems by applying the discoveries and more questions to answer. Thermal radiation as a thermal transport phenomenon is the epicenter of this research. Recent developments such as near-field radiative heat transfer exceeding blackbody radiation or control of radiative cooling via biasing grows the attraction on thermal radiation because these examples challenge our long-lasting understanding of nature. Exploring nature further in the small scale may help us meet the expectations mentioned above.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this thesis work, first, we carry out analyses on radiative heat transfer of natural hyperbolic material, calcite, and compare to that of a polar material SiC. Our study reveals that the high- modes within the hyperbolic bands are responsible for the substantial enhancement in near field radiation. Comparison of calcite with SiC illustrates the significance of the high- modes in calcite vs. surface polariton modes in SiC in their contributions to near-field radiation enhancement, for temperature differences ranging from 1 K to 400 K. We also noticed that the contributions of high- modes in calcite to near-field radiation is comparable to that of surface polaritons in SiC. The results of these analyses will be helpful in the search of hyperbolic materials that can enhance near field radiative transfer.</p> <p> </p> <p>Second, we demonstrate an experimental technique to measure near-field radiative heat transfer between two parallel plates at gap distances ranging from a few nanometers to far-field. A differential measurement circuit based on resistive thermometry to measure the defined temperatures are explained. To predict the defined temperatures, a computational method is utilized. We also detail an alignment technique that consists of a coarse and fine alignment in the relevant gap regions. This technique presents a method with high precision for gap measurement, dynamic gap control, and reliable sensitivity for extreme near-field measurements. Finally, we report experimental results that shows 18,000 times enhancement in radiative heat transfer between two parallel plates.</p> <p> </p> <p>Third, we analyze near-field radiative transfer due to hyperbolic phonon polaritons, driven by temperature gradient inside the bulk materials. We develop a mesoscale many-body scattering approach to account for the role of hyperbolic phonon polaritons in radiative transfer in the bulk and across a vacuum gap. Our study points out the equivalency between the bulk-generated mode and the surface mode in the absence of a temperature gradient in the material, and hence provide a unified framework for near-field radiative transfer by hyperbolic phonon polaritons. The results also elucidate contributions of the bulk-generated mode and the bulk temperature profile in the enhanced near-field radiative transfer.</p> <p> </p> <p>Forth, we study radiative heat transfer in hyperbolic material, hyperbolic boron nitride (hBN), and show a major contribution to energy transport arising from phonon polaritons supported in Reststrahlen bands. This contribution increases spectral radiative transfer by six orders of magnitude inside Reststrahlen bands compared to that outside Reststrahlen bands. The equivalent radiative thermal conductivity increases with temperature increase, and the radiative thermal conductivity can be of the same order of the phonon thermal conductivity. Experimental measurements are discussed. We showed the radiative contribution can account for as much as 27 % of the total thermal transport at 600 K. Hence, in hBN the radiative thermal transport can be comparable to thermal conduction by phonons. We also demonstrate contribution of polaritons to thermal transport in MoO₃. To calculate radiative heat transfer in three principal coordinates separately, we modify and apply the derived many-body model. Our analysis shows that radiative thermal conductivity in both in- and out-of-plane directions increases with temperature and contribution to energy transport by polaritons exceeds that by phonons.</p> <p> </p> Fifth, we build an experimental setup to examine near-field properties of materials using an external thermal source. The nanospectroscopy setup combines near-field microscopy technique, near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. We further explain challenges in building a nanospectroscopy setup using a weak thermal source and coupling two techniques. This method enables us to investigate spectral thermal radiation and local dielectric properties in nanoscale.

The Thermal Radiation Group at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has been working closely with scientists and engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center to develop accurate analytical and numerical models suitable for designing next-generation thin-film thermal radiation detectors for earth radiation budget measurement applications. The current study provides an analytical model of the notional thermal radiation detector that takes into account thermal transport phenomena, such as the contact resistance between the layers of the detector, and is suitable for use in parameter estimation. It was found that the responsivity of the detector can increase significantly due to the presence of contact resistance between the layers of the detector. Also presented is the effect of doping the thermal impedance layer of the detector with conducting particles in order to electrically link the two junctions of the detector. It was found that the responsivity and the time response of the doped detector decrease significantly in this case. The corresponding decrease of the electrical resistance of the doped thermal impedance layer is not sufficient to significantly improve the electrical performance of the detector. Finally, the "roughness effect" is shown to be unable to explain the decrease in the thermal conductivity often reported for thin-film layers / Master of Science

The Thermal Radiation Group, a laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, is currently working to develop a new technology for thermal radiation detectors. The Group is also studying the viability of replacing current Earth Radiation Budget radiometers with this new concept. This next-generation detector consists of a thermopile linear array thermal radiation detector. The principal objective of this research is to develop an optical model for the detector and its cavity. The model based on the Monte-Carlo ray-trace (MCRT) method, permits parametric studies to optimize the design of the detector cavity and the specification of surface optical properties. The model is realized as a FORTRAN program which permits the calculation of quantities related to the cross-talk among pixels of the detector and radiation exchange among surfaces of the cavity. An important capability of the tool is that it provides estimates of the discrete Green's function that permits partial correction for optical cross-talk among pixels of the array. / Master of Science