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Zhixiong Guo and Sunil Kumar Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering Polytechnic University, 6 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
ABSTRACT. The S-N discrete ordinates (DO) method is developed for the first time to solve transient radiative heat transfer in a two-dimensional rectangular enclosure with absorbing, emitting, and anisotropically scattering medium subject to diffuse and/or collimated laser irradiation. The transient DO method is used to solve several example problems and compared with the existing results and the Monte Carlo predictions. Good agreement between the transient DO solutions and other predictions is found. Finally, the transient DO method is applied to investigate the characteristics of short-pulsed laser radiation interaction and transport within biological tissues.
With the advent of the short-pulsed laser with the duration of the order of femtoseconds, transient laser radiation transport through turbid media has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years [1], particularly for applications in bio-medical treatment and diagnostics. One mathematical model for describing short-pulsed laser transport is time-dependent radiative transfer equation. The solution of the hyperbolic transient radiative heat transfer equation is then of great interest. Significant progress has been made in the development of solution method of radiative heat transfer in participating media in recent decades. However, the analysis of radiative heat transfer in most engineering problems traditionally neglects the effect of light propagation speed. In the applications of short-pulsed lasers, such a neglecting may induce significant errors [1-5].
Most previous studies on transient laser transport are based on the parabolic diffusion approximation [2,3] or have utilized the stochastic Monte Carlo (MC) method [4,5]. However, the diffusion approximation is hardly applicable to thin tissues or tissues having varying distributions of optical properties and complex geometries. The MC method is time-consuming and the results are subject to statistical error due to practical finite samplings. Few studies have addressed the solution of the entire hyperbolic transient radiative transfer equation. The adding-doubling method [6] was proposed to solve the transient response of a slab medium with constant external source. Kumar et al. [7] considered the solution of the hyperbolic transient radiative equation by using the P 1 models in 1D planar medium. More recently, Mitra and Kumar [8] examined several numerical methods for 1D transient radiative transport in absorbing-scattering medium, in which discrete ordinates method, P -N model, diffuse approximation, and two-flux method have been discussed. Tan and Hsu [9] developed an integral equation formulation for transient radiative transfer. Guo and Kumar [10] extended the radiation element method to consider the transient radiative transfer. Mitra et al. [11] applied the hyperbolic P 1 model to transient radiative transfer in a 2D rectangular medium. Wu and Wu [12] solved the transient integral equation using quadrature method in 2D cylindrical linearly anisotropically scattering media. However, the P 1 model underestimates apparently the light propagation speed [8], and the integral formulation is difficult to be applied to complex geometries with Mie anisotropically scattering media.
In the solution of multi-dimensional steady state radiative transfer in participating media, the discrete ordinates (DO) method has been one of the most widely applied methods [13-15]. The DO method requires a single formulation to invoke higher order approximations, integrates easily into
control volume transport codes, and is applicable to complete Mie anisotropic scattering phase function and inhomogeneous media. Based on these characteristics, the DO method has been selected in the present study for implementation into multi-dimensional transient radiation transport in absorbing, emitting, and anisotropically scattering media. The transient DO solution is verified by comparison against existing steady state DO solution and transient Monte Carlo prediction in several exemplified problems. The equivalent isotropic scattering results are compared with the anisotropic scattering modeling with truncated Legendre polynomials phase function in the transient domain. Finally, the transient DO method is applied to investigate the short-pulsed laser interaction and transport in living tissues.
MATHEMATICAL MODEL
For 2D Cartesian coordinates as shown in Fig. 1 (a), the hyperbolic transient radiative transfer equation of diffuse intensity I i in the discrete ordinate direction s à i^ is formulated as
I S i n y
x
t
c i i
i i
i i
(^1) i (^) + = , = 1 , 2 ,K ∂
n
j
i b j ij j ,^1 ,^2 ,K 4
1 1
=
π
ω ω (2)
contribution of collimated irradiation. A quadrature of order n with the appropriate angular weight w (^) j is used in the S-N discrete ordinates method. The scattering phase function may be approximated by a finite series of Legendre polynomials as
=
M
k
ij CkPk 0
The enclosure walls are diffusely reflecting. The diffuse intensity at wall 1 is
<
/ 2
0
1 n j j j
w w w bw j
I I w I ξ
Similarly, we can set up relations for the rest three walls.
(a) (b)
Figure 1. (a) System geometry; (b) a control volume.
state radiative transfer. Its significance is embodied by the incorporation of light propagation effect in microscale short time radiation transport. Some short time radiation phenomena, such as the broadening of short pulse through scattering medium, can only be observed in transient solution [1].
Fiveland [13] has introduced limitation on the spatial differential step. For transient radiative transfer, a limitation on time step should also be imposed. Since a light beam always travels with a velocity c , the traveling distance c ∆ t between two neighboring time steps should not exceed the control volume spatial step, i.e., c ∆ t < Min{∆ x ,∆ y }. Thus, if we introduce non-dimensional
x y
t
∆ * Min i i (11)
The choice of quadrature scheme in the DO method is arbitrary. In the present calculations, the S- 12 approximation ( n = 84, which computes 84 fluxes over the hemisphere) is generally used. The values of discrete ordinate quadrature sets and weights can be found in Table 2 of Fiveland [14].
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
At first, the transient DO method is applied to a square enclosure with cold, black walls, and a purely absorbing medium that is suddenly raised to and maintained at an emissive power of unity. The predicted surface heat fluxes at different time instants for three different absorption coefficients are plotted in Figs. 2 (a), (b) and (c), respectively. It is seen that the heat flux increases as the time proceeds. After t * = 5.0, the change versus time is invisible and the results reach to a steady state solutions. The results at long time stages are compared with exact solution [17] in steady state. Excellent agreement was found.
Then a boundary incident problem in a square enclosure is studied, where wall 1 is suddenly heated and maintained at hot with unity emissive power, but the rest walls and the medium are kept cold. The medium is anisotropically scattering with Mie phase function F2, which was listed in Table 1 of Kim and Lee [15] in detail. The asymmetric factor g for the strong forward phase function F2 is g = 0.66972. The non-dimensional incident radiation and net heat fluxes along the centerline ( y * = 0) are displayed in Figs. 3 (a) and (b), respectively, for different time instants. The solid circle marks are the steady state values predicted using S -14 DO method [15]. As time advances, it is seen that the radiation is propagating to the larger x end. The transient results gradually match to the steady state solutions. The minor difference between the steady state solution and the transient solution at
0 0.5 1 X
t* = 1 t* = 2 t* = 5 t* = 10
κ= 0. Exact Solution [17]
Surface Heat Flux
0 0.5 1 X
κ= 1.
1
0 0.5 1 X
κ= 10 L = W = 1
(a) (b) (c) Figure 2. Non-dimensional surface heat flux for a square enclosure with cold black walls and hot absorbing medium: (a) κ = 0.1; (b) κ = 1.0; (c) κ = 10.
t * = 8.0 may be attributed to the different order approximations used in the two solutions.
The DO method is examined in transient domain by comparison against the Monte Carlo prediction for isotropically scattering medium with black walls in Fig. 4, where temporal distributions of reflectance are shown. Wall 1 is assumed to be hot and irradiated diffusely, other walls and the
0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 x*
Incident Radiation G
t* = 0. t* = 1. t* = 2. t* = 4. t* = 8.
S-14 Solution at Steady State [15]
0
1
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 x*
Net Radiative Heat Flux Q
y
t* = 0. t* = 1. t* = 2. t* = 4. t* = 8.
(a) (b)
Figure 3. Incident radiation (a) and net radiative heat flux in the y -direction (b) along the centerline for a square enclosure with one hot wall and cold anisotropic scattering medium.
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Reflectance
at y* = 0.
at y* = 0.
at y* = 0.
L = W = 10 mm
sI = 1.0 mm -1 DO Method MC Method
One hot wall: diffuse irradiation Three cold walls
Cold medium: isotropic scattering
Figure 4. Comparison of DO method with MC method for temporal profiles of reflectance.
matched when the optical fibers are inserted into living tissue. Fig. 6 (a) shows the non-dimensional incident radiation along the centerline ( y * = 0) at various time instants. It is clearly seen that the sudden peak, which represents the ballistic component of the laser, is propagated from small x to large x until it passes through the medium with the speed of light, and the peak value is substantially reduced in the process of propagation. The diffuse component due to multiple scattering events also forms a second maximum point along the x -direction and the diffuse apex is also propagated gradually from the small x to the center of the x -axis. At long time stages, the profile of the incident radiation is symmetric along the center position x * = 0.5. As time proceeds, the value of the incident radiation becomes smaller and smaller.
The temporal transmittance profiles at different locations are shown in Fig. 6 (b). It is seen that, with the increase of distance between the detector and the laser incident axis, the peak position of the transmitted pulse moves to large time instant and the transmitted pulse width increases. However, the magnitude of the transmitted pulse decreases.
CONCLUSIONS
The discrete ordinates method is formulated to study two-dimensional transient radiative heat transfer in anisotropically scattering, absorbing and emitting medium subject to diffuse and/or collimated short-pulsed laser irradiation. The transient DO solution is verified by comparison with the existing published results and/or with the Monte Carlo simulation for a variety of exemplified problems. It is found that the present method is accurate and can be used to predict all transient radiative quantities. The temporal distributions of transmittance and divergence in equivalent isotropic scattering modeling are found to approach closely the predictions of direct modeling of strong forward anisotropic scattering with truncated Legendre polynomials phase function in most of the transient domain except at early time instants. The transient DO method is applied to study the characteristics of short-pulsed laser interaction and propagation within living tissues. It is found
10 -
10 -
10 -
10 -
10 -
10 -
10 -
100
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
t = 4 ps t = 20 ps t = 40 ps t = 80 ps t = 160 ps t = 240 ps t = 320 ps t = 400 ps t = 480 ps
x*
Incident Radiation G
κ σsI = 1.0 mm-
= 0.01 mm-
L = 10 mm W = 29.9 mm
40 80 120 160 200 240 280
y = 0 y = 1 y = 2 y = 3 y = 4 y = 5 y = 6 y = 7 y = 8
Transmittance (x 10
6 )
time (ps)
0
(a) (b)
Figure 6. Incident radiation along the centerline (a) and temporal distributions of transmittance at various locations (b) in a rectangular tissue subject to an impulse laser irradiation.
that the ballistic component of the laser propagates with the speed of light at the tissue and its value is substantially reduced with the advance of propagation. The diffuse component due to multiple scattering also forms a second maximum incident radiation inside the tissue, but finally the profile is symmetric along the center of the square. The incident radiation is strongly affected by its microscale space position and time instants. The temporal shape of the transmitted pulse is strongly influenced by the position of the detector. With the increase of distance between the detector and the laser incident axis, the peak position of the transmitted pulse moves to large time instant and the transmitted pulse width increases.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors acknowledge partial support from the National Science Foundation grant AW 9963 (CTS-973201) administrated by Sandia National Laboratories, Shawn Burns, Project Manager.
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