“…It has been extensively used for the radiative transport problems with participating medium. In combined radiation, conduction and/or convection mode problems, its computational grid is compatible with the finite difference/the finite volume method/the lattice Boltzmann method used for solving momentum and energy equations [8]. Although the success of the CDM has been demonstrated by solving different types of problems dealing with the participating medium, unlike other methods like the DOM [2,9], the DTM [4], the FVM [5,10] etc., that are mainly meant for participating medium radiation, how this method works for radiative transport problems in which the medium is either In the CDM, since all radiative information are collapsed to the 2-D solution plane, in view factor calculations, unlike the DOM [2,9], the DTM [4], the FVM [5,10], etc., the CDM does not require any tracing of rays and, therefore, its expressions are exact.…”