Past Event: CSEM Student Forum

An Introduction to Radiative Transport and the Net Emission Coefficient Model

Joshua Bigman, CSEM Graduate Student

Abstract

Radiation is an important energy transfer mechanism in plasma simulations. However, resolving the radiation field and coupling it to a flow solver can be computationally expensive. This talk presents the radiative transport equation (RTE) and introduces the net emission coefficient (NEC), a simple, inexpensive model for radiative effects within a flow solver.

Biography

Joshua entered the CSEM program in Fall 2022 with a background in mechanical engineering and physics. His current research interests include computational fluid mechanics and multi-physics simulations. He is advised by Prof. Robert Moser.