Radiative heat flux

Radiative heat flux is a flux depending on the temperature of the body and is triggered by the *RADIATE card. No external medium is needed. If other bodies are present, an interaction takes place. This is called cavity radiation. Usually, it is not possible to model all bodies in the environment. Then, a homogeneous environmental body temperature can be defined. In that case, the radiative flux takes the form

$$q = \epsilon \sigma (\theta^4-\theta_0^4)$$ (861)

where $q$ is a flux normal to the surface, $\epsilon$ is the emissivity, $\sigma=5.67 \times 10^{-8}$ W/m$^2$K$^4$ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, $\theta$ is the absolute body temperature (Kelvin) and $\theta_0$ is the absolute environment temperature (also called sink temperature). The emissivity takes values between 0 and 1. A zero value applied to a body with no absorption nor emission and 100 $\%$ reflection. A value of 1 applies to a black body. The radiation is assumed to be diffuse (independent of the direction of emission) and gray (independent of the emitted wave length).

If other bodies are present, the radiative interaction is taken into account and viewfactors are calculated if the user selects the appropriate load label.