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Lecture Notes

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This page presents two forms of lecture notes: notes by Professor Chen, and notes taken in-class by a student (presented courtesy of Tom Harris, and used with permission).


Lec # Topics Professor Chen's Notes Student's Notes
Week 1
1 Review of Basic Thermal Radiation Concepts, Blackbody Radiation (PDF)# (PDF)#
2 View Factor, Simple Radiative Transfer (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 2
3 Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (PDF)# (PDF)#
4 Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.) (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 3
5 EM Waves (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 4
6 EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces (PDF)# (PDF)#
7 EM Wave Modeling of Thin Films (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 5
8 EM Wave Modeling of Particles (PDF)# (PDF)#
9 Scattering Properties of Particulates (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 6
10 Dielectric Properties of Solid, Drude Model (PDF)# (PDF)#
11 Lorentz Model (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 7
12 Radiative Properties of Gases (PDF)# (PDF)#
13 Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.) (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 8
14 First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book) (PDF)# (PDF)#
15 Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 9
16 Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media (PDF)# (PDF)#
17 Discrete Ordinate Method (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 10
18 Spherical Harmonics Method (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 11
19 Approximate Solutions (PDF)# (PDF)#
20 Monte Carlo Simulation (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 12
21 Presentation and Discussion on Global Warming (PDF)# (PDF)#
22 Near Field Thermal Radiation, Fluctuation-dissipation Theory (PDF)# (PDF)#
Week 13
23 Near Field Thermal Radiation (PDF)# (PDF)#
24 Solar Cells
Week 14
25 Coherent Radiation Source, Lasers
26 Laser Materials Interactions