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This course investigates the principles of thermal radiation and their applications to engineering heat and photon transfer problems.

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This course includes
Hours of videos

638 years, 9 months

Units & Quizzes

23

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Topics include quantum and classical models of radiative properties of materials, electromagnetic wave theory for thermal radiation, radiative transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media, and coherent laser radiation. Applications cover laser-material interactions, imaging, infrared instrumentation, global warming, semiconductor manufacturing, combustion, furnaces, and high temperature processing.

Course Currilcum

    • Review of Basic Thermal Unlimited
    • View Factor, Simple Unlimited
    • Radiative Transfer in Enclosures Unlimited
    • Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.) Unlimited
    • EM Waves Unlimited
    • EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces Unlimited
    • EM Wave Modeling of Thin Films Unlimited
    • EM Wave Modeling of Particles Unlimited
    • Scattering Properties of Particulates Unlimited
    • Dielectric Properties of Solid, Drude Model Unlimited
    • Lorentz Model Unlimited
    • Radiative Properties of Gases Unlimited
    • Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.) Unlimited
    • First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book) Unlimited
    • Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media Unlimited
    • Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media Unlimited
    • Discrete Ordinate Method Unlimited
    • Spherical Harmonics Method Unlimited
    • Approximate Solutions Unlimited
    • Monte Carlo Simulation Unlimited
    • Presentation and Discussion on Global Warming Unlimited
    • Near Field Thermal Radiation, Fluctuation-dissipation Theory Unlimited
    • Near Field Thermal Radiation Unlimited