Heat and sweat transport in fibrous media with radiation

The paper is concerned with heat and sweat transport in porous textile media with a non-local thermal radiation and phase change. The model, based on a combination of these classical heat transfer mechanisms (convection, conduction and radiation), is governed by a nonlinear, degenerate and strongly coupled parabolic system. The thermal radiative flow is described by a radiation transport equation and characterized by the thermal absorptivity and emissivity of fibre. A conservative boundary condition is introduced to describe the radiative heat flux interacting with environment. With the conservative boundary condition, we prove the global existence of positive/non-negative weak solutions of a nonlinear parabolic system. A typical clothing assembly with a polyester batting material sandwiched in two laminated covers is investigated numerically. Numerical results show that the contribution of radiative heat transfer is comparable with that of conduction/convection in the sweating system.

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