Calculation of the Effective Emissivities of Specular-Diffuse Cavities by the Monte Carlo Method

Abstract

An algorithm of the Monte Carlo method is described which allows evaluation of the effective emissivities of isothermal and nonisothermal specular-diffuse black-body cavities for use in radiometry, photometry and optical pyrometry. The calculation provides estimates of normal spectral effective emissivity for black-body cavities, formed by cone surfaces and a cylinder. It does this for an isothermal cavity and for a cavity having an arbitrary variation of temperature along the cavity length.