CHT'01 - Advances in Computational Heat Transfer II. Proceedings of a Second Symposium
COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF NON-GRAY GAS MODELING TECHNIQUES AND BAND REGROUPING EFFICIENCIES
pages 1009-1016
ABSTRACT
This study compares the relative efficiencies (accuracy and computation time) of five methods developed for characterizing radiative exchanges in enclosures containing real gases: the correlated-k method (CK), three versions of the hybrid CK/statistical narrow band method (SNB-CK) and the spectral line based weighted sum of gray gases method (SLW). Attention is drawn on the hybrid SNB-CK method featuring band regrouping strategies. The version proposed in this paper, which is characterized by a selective regrouping of bands, leads to very good results while the computation time is significantly decreased with respect to the original SNB-CK version.