Incident Intensity (Radiation in Participating Media and Radiation in Absorbing-Scattering Media Interfaces)
Use this node to specify the radiative intensity along incident directions on a boundary. This intensity is a power per unit solid angle and unit surface area projected onto the plane normal to the radiation direction. It may be specified for each spectral band.
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Incident Intensity
When Wavelength dependence of radiative properties is Constant, the External radiation intensity Ii should be specified. This represents the value of radiative intensity along incoming discrete directions. Values of radiative intensity on outgoing discrete directions are not prescribed.
If External radiation intensity is User defined, set a value or expression for Iext.
Alternatively, choose Blackbody radiation or Graybody radiation to define Ii as Ib(Text) or εIb(Text), respectively (available with the Radiation in Participating Media interface only). Set the External temperature Text (SI unit: K, default value 293.15K) to specify the temperature at which the blackbody radiation intensity Ib is evaluated. Alternatively, select an Ambient temperature defined in an Ambient Properties node under Definitions. For Graybody radiation, the Emissivity ε and External Temperature Text should be defined. If the Emissivity is defined From material, make sure that a material is defined at the boundary level (materials are defined by default at the domain level). If User defined is selected for the Emissivity, enter another value for ε. If the Define properties on each side check box is selected, define the Emissivity, upside εu and the Emissivity, downside εd. Select the Boundary material, upside and Boundary material, downside to have different material properties on each side. The boundary material specified is used only when Emissivity, upside or Emissivity, downside are From material.
If Wavelength dependence of radiative properties is Solar and ambient or Multiple spectral bands, the External radiation intensity Ii,k for each spectral band should be specified. Select an option between Graybody radiation, Blackbody radiation, User defined for each band, or User defined distribution.
If External radiation intensity is Blackbody radiation or Graybody radiation (available with the Radiation in Participating Media interface only), Ii,k is defined from the blackbody intensity Ib(Text), the fractional emissive power for each spectral band at external temperature FEPk(Text), the emissivity εk and the External temperature Text (SI unit: K, default value 293.15K). For Graybody radiation, the Emissivity εk and External Temperature Text should be defined from a user expression or by selecting an Ambient temperature defined in an Ambient Properties node under Definitions. For User defined for each band, set a value for each spectral band in the table displayed underneath. Within a spectral band, each value is assumed to be independent of wavelength. If the Define properties on each side check box is selected, define the Emissivity, upside εu and the Emissivity, downside εd. Select the Boundary material, upside and Boundary material, downside to have different material properties on each side. The boundary material specified is used only when Emissivity, upside or Emissivity, downside are From material.
If External radiation intensity is User defined for each band, set a value or expression for Iext,k for each spectral band in the table displayed underneath. If the Define incident intensity on each side check box is selected, set values in the Upside and Downside columns.
If External radiation intensity is User defined distribution, set a value or expression for Iλ,ext. Any expression is then averaged on each spectral band to obtain a piecewise constant radiation intensity. If the average value of the radiation intensity on each band is known, you may use instead the User defined for each band option to avoid the evaluation of the average. If the Define incident intensity on each side check box is selected, set values for Iλ,ext,u and Iλ,ext,d.
When Discrete ordinates method is selected, the components of each discrete ordinate vector can be used in this expression. The syntax is name.sx, name.sy, and name.sz, where name is the physics interface node name. By default, the Radiation in Participating Media interface is rpm so rpm.sx, rpm.sy, and rpm.sz correspond to the components of discrete ordinate vectors.
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Physics tab with Radiation in Participating Media or Radiation in Absorbing-Scattering Media selected: