March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
32h 58m
English
In the preceding sections of this chapter we have studied conduction and convection heat transfer. In conduction, heat is transferred from one part of a body to another, and the intervening material is heated. In convection, heat is transferred by the actual mixing of materials and by conduction. In radiant heat transfer, the medium through which the heat is transferred usually is not heated. Radiation heat transfer is the transfer of heat by electromagnetic radiation.
Thermal radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation similar to X rays, light waves, gamma rays, and so on, differing only in wavelength. It ...
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