A Multiscale Method for Coupled Steady-State Heat Conduction and Radiative Transfer Equations in Composite Materials

Zi Xiang Tong, Ming Jia Li*, Yi Si Yu, Jing Yu Guo

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Abstract

Predictions of coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer processes in periodic composite materials are important for applications of the materials in high-temperature environments. The homogenization method is widely used for the heat conduction equation, but the coupled radiative transfer equation is seldom studied. In this work, the homogenization method is extended to the coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in composite materials with periodic microscopic structures, in which both the heat conduction equation and the radiative transfer equation are analyzed. Homogenized equations are obtained for the macroscopic heat transfer. Unit cell problems are also derived, which provide the effective coefficients for the homogenized equations and the local temperature and radiation corrections. A second-order asymptotic expansion of the temperature field and a first-order asymptotic expansion of the radiative intensity field are established. A multiscale numerical algorithm is proposed to simulate the coupled conduction-radiation heat transfer in composite materials. According to the numerical examples in this work, compared with the fully resolved simulations, the relative errors of the multiscale model are less than 13% for the temperature and less than 8% for the radiation. The computational time can be reduced from more than 300 h to less than 30 min. Therefore, the proposed multiscale method maintains the accuracy of the simulation and significantly improves the computational efficiency. It can provide both the average temperature and radiation fields for engineering applications and the local information in microstructures of composite materials.

Original languageEnglish
Article number082102
JournalJournal of Heat Transfer
Volume143
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Composite material
  • Conduction-radiation heat transfer
  • Homogenization
  • Multiscale simulation
  • Radiative transfer equation

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