VIEW FACTOR heat transfer

gholamghar

hello
i need to understand "view factor" in heat transfer(radiation),
can any one give me some documents that has some description
about "view factor"?
thnaks

ank_gl

how about some heat transfer books??

Heat transfer - cengel
Heat & mass transfer - Frank P Incropera

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_factor

Topher925

In layman's terms, the view factor is a just a coefficient that is used to account for radiative heat transfer only having an affect on a portion of the surface area of an object. This is usually caused by geometry or obstructions between the receiving surface and the source.

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gholamghar	VIEW FACTOR heat transfer Tweet hello i need to understand "view factor" in heat transfer(radiation), can any one give me some documents that has some description about "view factor"? thnaks

ank_gl	how about some heat transfer books?? Heat transfer - cengel Heat & mass transfer - Frank P Incropera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_factor

Topher925	In layman's terms, the view factor is a just a coefficient that is used to account for radiative heat transfer only having an affect on a portion of the surface area of an object. This is usually caused by geometry or obstructions between the receiving surface and the source.