Radiative Transfer

Lecture Notes

This page presents two forms of lecture notes: notes by Professor Chen, and notes taken in-class by a student (presented courtesy of Tom Harris, and used with permission).

LEC #	TOPICS	PROFESSOR CHEN'S NOTES	STUDENT'S NOTES
Week 1
1	Review of Basic Thermal Radiation Concepts, Blackbody Radiation	(PDF)	(PDF)
2	View Factor, Simple Radiative Transfer	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 2
3	Radiative Transfer in Enclosures	(PDF)	(PDF)
4	Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.)	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 3
5	EM Waves	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 4
6	EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces	(PDF)	(PDF)
7	EM Wave Modeling of Thin Films	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 5
8	EM Wave Modeling of Particles	(PDF)	(PDF)
9	Scattering Properties of Particulates	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 6
10	Dielectric Properties of Solid, Drude Model	(PDF)	(PDF)
11	Lorentz Model	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 7
12	Radiative Properties of Gases	(PDF)	(PDF)
13	Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.)	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 8
14	First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book)	(PDF)	(PDF)
15	Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 9
16	Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media	(PDF)	(PDF)
17	Discrete Ordinate Method	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 10
18	Spherical Harmonics Method	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 11
19	Approximate Solutions	(PDF)	(PDF)
20	Monte Carlo Simulation	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 12
21	Presentation and Discussion on Global Warming	(PDF)	(PDF)
22	Near Field Thermal Radiation, Fluctuation-dissipation Theory	(PDF)	(PDF)
Week 13
23	Near Field Thermal Radiation	(PDF)	(PDF)
24	Solar Cells
Week 14
25	Coherent Radiation Source, Lasers
26	Laser Materials Interactions

Assignments

ASSIGNMENTS	SOLUTIONS
Problem Set 1 (PDF)	(PDF)
Problem Set 2 (PDF)	(PDF)
Problem Set 3 (PDF)	(PDF)
Problem Set 4 (PDF)	(PDF)
Problem Set 5 (PDF)	(PDF)
Problem Set 6 (PDF)

Exams

EXAMS	SOLUTIONS
First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book)	(PDF)
Second Mid-term (Take-home)	(PDF)