A modified version of the discrete ordinates method for radiative heat transfer modelling

Abstract

The standard discrete ordinates method (SDOM) suffers from two major sources of inaccuracy, the ray effects and false scattering. False scattering may be significantly reduced using high order discretization schemes, while ray effects originated from abrupt changes of wall temperatures are mitigated by the modified discrete ordinates method (MDOM). However, the MDOM is insensitive to ray effects caused by sharp gradients of the emissive power of the medium. Therefore, a new version (NMDOM) is proposed to overcome this shortcoming. The accuracy of the SDOM, MDOM and NMDOM are investigated, along with the interaction between ray effects and false scattering. It is concluded that the NMDOM yields accurate solutions even for coarse spatial and angular discretizations.