DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.2001.RadiationSymp
ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-163-1
ISSN Online: 2642-5629
ISSN Flash Drive: 2642-5661
CLAUSIUS PRINCIPLE AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN CURVED SPACE-TIME
SINOPSIS
In numerous media (non linear material, moving dielectric, superfluid, Bose-Einstein condensate, and others) and different vacua states (nontrivial QED vacua) matter or vacuum fluctuations modify the light propagation in a same way that an effective gravitational field. This non-linear optical behaviour affects not only the energy paths but also the form of the energetic invariant. However, such a function plays a key role when we try to develop a phenomenological kinetic theory for participating media. In the present work, we analyse how the modification of light propagation transforms the energetic invariant and modifies the radiative transfer. A semi-analytical method is presented to solve the RTE for any spherically symmetric problems.