clear; clc; printf("\t\t\tExample Number 8.12\n\n\n"); // network for gas radiation between parallel plates // Example 8.12 (page no.-422-423) // solution T1 = 800;// [K] temperature of first plate E1 = 0.3;// emissivity T2 = 400;// [K] temperature of second plate E2 = 0.7;// emissivity Eg = 0.2;// emissivity of gray gas tg = 0.8;// transmissivity of gray gas sigma = 5.669*10^(-8);// [W/square meter K^(4)] // the network shown in figure 8-39(page no.-419) applies to this problem. all the shape factors are unity for large planes and the various resistors can be computed on a unit area basis as F12 = 1; F1g = 1; F2g = F1g; R1 = (1-E1)/E1; R2 = (1-E2)/E2; R3 = 1/(F12*(1-Eg)); R4 = 1/(F1g*Eg); R5 = 1/(F2g*Eg); Eb1 = sigma*T1^(4);// [W/square meter] Eb2 = sigma*T2^(4);// [W/square meter] // the equivalent resistance of the center "triangle" is R = 1/[(1/R3)+(1/(R4+R5))]; // the total heat transfer is then q_by_A = (Eb1-Eb2)/(R1+R2+R);// [W/square meter] // if there were no gas present the heat transfer would be given by equation (8-42): q_by_A1 = (Eb1-Eb2)/[(1/E1)+(1/E2)-1];// [W/square meter] // the radiosities may be computed from q_by_A = (Eb1-J1)*(E1/(1-E1)) = (J2-Eb2)*(E2/(1-E2)) J1 = Eb1-q_by_A*((1-E1)/E1);// [W/square meter] J2 = Eb2+q_by_A*((1-E2)/E2);// [W/square meter] // for the network Ebg is just the mean of these values Ebg = (J1+J2)/2;// [W/square meter] // so that the temperature of the gas is Tg = (Ebg/sigma)^(1/4);// [K] printf("the heat-transfer rate between the two planes is %f W/square meter",q_by_A); printf("\n\n the temperature of the gas is %f K",Tg); printf("\n\n the ratio of heat-transfer with presence of gas to without presence of gas is %f",q_by_A/q_by_A1);