Radiant Heat Transfer Through an Aerosol Suspended in a Transparent Gas

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Abstract
The scattering of radiation by an aerosol in the cover-gas region of a fast breeder nuclear reactor has been studied by means of the equation of radiative transfer for a grey atmosphere. Some new results have been obtained in the form of an integral equation for the radiation intensity and heat flux. A variational method is employed to obtain numerical results and the accuracy of an elementary theory based upon discrete ordinates is assessed. The variational approach leads to computationally useful and accurate results for several quantities of practical interest. The interdisciplinary nature of the work is stressed by virtue of its close connection with neutron transport theory and rarefied gas dynamics.

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