Abstract. The purpose of this study is to analyze two-dimensional rectangular porous radiant burners in order to investigate the thermal characteristics of this type of burners in starting time period. Since the solid and gas phases are not in thermal equilibrium, two separate energy equations for these two phases are solved numerically with alternative direction implicit scheme. The gas is considered non-radiative medium, and for computation of radiative heat ux through the solid phase, the Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) is employed and solved using the Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM). It is obtained that, due to the dominant radiation e ects, the required time to reach the steady gas temperature is very low. Furthermore, the e ects of optical thickness and scattering albedo on the performance of Porous Radiant Burner (PRB) are investigated.
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