Inverse Estimation of Main Parameters of Spectral Line-Based Weighted Sum of Gray Gases Model With Few Gray Gases to Simulate the Radiation in Nongray Media

Abstract

The aim of this study is to present a reduced spectral line-based weighted sum of gray gases (SLW) model to simulate the radiation heat transfer in nongray media at high temperatures. Inverse approach is used to divide the absorption cross section band into a clear gas with one gray gas and two gray gases, which are called the S-1 and S-2 approaches, respectively. The unknown absorption cross sections are determined from the knowledge of measured total incident intensities received by wall surfaces. In order to simulate the exact solution of radiation heat transfer in nongray gaseous media, the discrete transfer method (DTM) in combination with S-20 model is used, where the nongray medium is replaced with a set of a clear gas and 20 gray gases. The inverse problem is formulated as an optimization problem to minimize a least square objective function, which is solved by the conjugate gradient method (CGM). The accuracy of the present method is verified by comparing with previous researches and the S-20 approach with a large number of gray gases. The effects of noisy data on the inverse solution are investigated by considering an extreme case with large measurement error. The results show that the unknown absorption cross sections are retrieved well, even for noisy data.