Radiative Heat Transfer: Particulate Media

This lecture covers the radiative heat transfer in participating media, focusing on the radiative intensity, boundary conditions for the Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE), and the divergence of the radiative heat flux. It explains the radiative properties of particle clouds, the absorption and scattering by spherical particles using Mie theory, and the radiative properties of small and large spheres in different limits. The instructor discusses the scattering phase functions, the extinction efficiency factor, and the scattering of large opaque spheres in the geometrical optics limit.