Student research opportunities
Radiative spectroscopy characterisation of participating media
Project Code: CECS_1124
This project is available at the following levels:
Honours, Masters, PhD
Keywords:
radiation, spectroscopy, radiometry, optics, experimental, inverse methods
Supervisor:
Professor Wojciech LipinskiOutline:
Combined theoretical and experimental techniques are developed to study light-matter interactions for participating media encountered in high-temperature solar thermal and thermochemical application. The scope of research includes design and optimisation of an experimental radiative spectroscopy/radiometry facility and demonstrating its use to determine effective optical and radiative properties of selected participating such as particle suspensions, packed beds, nano-, micro- and macro-structures, fibrous media, semi-transparent solids and liquids, and molecular gases. Inverse radiative transfer models are developed to infer the radiative and optical properties from measured overall characteristics such as transmittance, reflectance, and emittance.
Background Literature
K. Ganesan, L.A. Dombrovsky, T.S. Oh, and W. Lipiński. Determination of optical constants of ceria by combined analytical and experimental approaches. JOM, 65:1694–1701, 2013.
K. Ganesan, L.A. Dombrovsky, and W. Lipiński. Visible and near-infrared optical properties of ceria ceramics. Infrared Physics & Technology, 57:101–109, 2013.
K. Ganesan, J. Randrianalisoa, and W. Lipiński. Effect of morphology on spectral radiative properties of three-dimensionally ordered macroporous ceria packed bed. Journal of Heat Transfer, 135:122701, 2013.
P. Coray, W. Lipiński, and A. Steinfeld. Spectroscopic goniometry system for determining thermal radiative properties of participating media. Experimental Heat Transfer, 24:300–312, 2011.
Z. Liang, W.C. Chueh, K. Ganesan, S.M. Haile, and W. Lipiński. Experimental determination of transmittance of porous cerium dioxide media in the spectral range 300–1,100 nm. Experimental Heat Transfer, 24:285–299, 2011.
M.F. Modest. Radiative Heat Transfer. Third edition, Academic Press, 2013.
