Monte Carlo algorithm’s performance change is studied when collision method and path length method are used as the energy beam tracking method for calculating radiative heat transfer under the same physical property condition.The results show that when the surface emissivity, scattering albedo and dielectric absorptivity are fixed at 0.5 and the average optical thickness of a single mesh is less than 0.1, the surface performance factor of the collision method is stable, but the spatial performance factor decreases with the increase of the average optical thickness, and these changes do not change much with the increase of the number of beams.Under the same conditions, the surface performance factor and the space performance factor decrease with the increase of the average optical thickness.Under the same conditions, the surface performance factor and the space performance factor of the path length method decrease with the increase of the average optical thickness.
This study investigates the impact of angular mesh dispersion, scattering albedo, and surface emissivity on the computational accuracy of the Monte Carlo method for solving the radiation heat transfer problem with participating medium in a three-dimensional cylindrical coordinate system under isothermal radiation equilibrium conditions. The relationship between the surface emissivity and the minimum number of beams is quantitatively analyzed by collating the data, and the maximum allowable optical thickness under a certain number of bundles is obtained.
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