Tuesday, October 16, 2012

1210.3642 (Vladyslav A. Golyk et al.)

Small distance expansion for radiative heat transfer between curved
objects
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Vladyslav A. Golyk, Matthias Krüger, Alexander P. McCauley, Mehran Kardar
We develop a small distance expansion for the radiative heat transfer between gently curved objects, in terms of the ratio of distance to radius of curvature. A gradient expansion allows us to go beyond the lowest order proximity transfer approximation. The range of validity of such expansion depends on temperature as well as material properties. Generally, the expansion converges faster for the derivative of the transfer than for the transfer itself, which we use by introducing a near-field adjusted plot. For the case of a sphere and a plate, the logarithmic correction to the leading term has a very small prefactor for all materials investigated.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3642

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