A multi-spectral reordering technique for the full spectrum SLMB modeling of radiative heat transfer in nonuniform gaseous mixtures

A Multi-Spectral Reordering (MSR) scheme is introduced to improve the performances of the Spectral-Line Moment-Based (SLMB) modeling for the handling of full spectrum radiative heat transfer calculations in nonuniform media. Using this simultaneous reordering of the spectrum for several thermophysical conditions together with employing approximate formulations to evaluate path-averaged transmission functions for nonisothermal and nonhomogenous gaseous paths, a novel full spectrum gas radiation modeling method in nonuniform gaseous mixtures is constituted. The method is presented in details as well as the building of associated databases for CO₂ and H₂O at atmospheric pressure and for the temperature range of 300-2700 K. The new model is validated against line-by-line reference computations for a series of existing benchmarks and for a flame configuration. The MSR-SLMB modeling is shown to perform accurately and better than the standard SLMB one, while involving reasonable additional computational costs.