| Abstract: | Radiation is usually the dominant mode of heat transfer in furnace enclosures. The imaginary planes method is one of the new methods for calculating the radiative heat transfer in such systems. In this study, a general procedure was developed for its application in furnace modelling. Various case studies were carried out for a number of furnaces, and the results were compared with those of the zone method. It was found that the new method combines good accuracy with low computation time and appears to be a promising method for the determination of heat flux and temperature distributions within furnace enclosures. |
