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This course investigates the principles of thermal radiation and their application to engineering heat and photon transfer problems.

Topics include:

• Quantum and Classical Models of Radiative Properties of Materials
• Electromagnetic Wave Theory for Thermal Radiation
• Radiative Transfer in Absorbing, Emitting, and Scattering Media
• Coherent Laser Radiation
• Applications:
  • Laser-material Interactions
  • Imaging
  • Infrared Instrumentation
  • Global Warming
  • Semiconductor Manufacturing
  • Combustion
  • Furnaces
  • High Temperature Processing

Modest, Michael F. Radiative Heat Transfer. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780125031639.

Intermediate Heat and Mass Transfer (2.51), or Transport Processes (10.302).

Problem sets are due once every two weeks.

There are two exams, which are each worth 20% of the final grade. The first is in-class and open-book. The second is a take-home test.