Parallel ray tracing for radiative heat transfer: Application in a distributed computing environment
International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
ISSN: 0961-5539
Article publication date: 1 November 2001
Abstract
Notes that, in a full‐scale application of the Monte Carlo method for combined heat transfer analysis, problems usually arise from the large computing requirements. Here the method to overcome this difficulty is the parallel execution of the Monte Carlo method in a distributed computing environment. Addresses the problem of determination of the temperature field formed under the assumption of radiative equilibrium in an enclosure idealizing an industrial furnace. The medium contained in this enclosure absorbs, emits and scatters anisotropically thermal radiation. Discusses two topics in detail: first, the efficiency of the parallelization of the developed code, and second, the influence of the scattering behavior of the medium. The adopted parallelization method for the first topic is the decomposition of the statistical sample and its subsequent distribution among the available processors. The measured high efficiencies showed that this method is particularly suited to the target architecture of this study, which is a dedicated network of workstations supporting the message passing paradigm. For the second topic, the results showed that taking into account the isotropic scattering, as opposed to neglecting the scattering, has a pronounced impact on the temperature distribution inside the enclosure. In contrast, the consideration of the sharply forward scattering, that is characteristic of all the real combustion particles, leaves the predicted temperature field almost undistinguishable from the absorbing/emitting case.
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Citation
Marakis, J.G., Chamiço, J., Brenner, G. and Durst, F. (2001), "Parallel ray tracing for radiative heat transfer: Application in a distributed computing environment", International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 11 No. 7, pp. 663-681. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005983
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:MCB UP Ltd
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