Dl. Qualey et al., MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION OF RADIATION HEAT-TRANSFER FROM AN INFINITE-PLANE TO PARALLEL ROWS OF INFINITELY LONG TUBES - HOTTEL EXTENDED, Numerical heat transfer. Part A, Applications, 31(2), 1997, pp. 131-142
A two-dimensional Monte Carlo method has been applied to a classic rad
iant energy exchange problem that models the interior of an industrial
furnace. The configuration involves a source as an infinite radiating
plane and the heat sink as parallel rows of infinitely long tubes. Ho
ttel used a graphical technique to solve this furnace model for the tw
o-tube-row configuration. This work extends Hottel's results by increa
sing the number of rows in the original equilateral triangular array a
nd then generalizing the results to isosceles triangular arrangements.