A solar power engine in Font Romeu, France. (Image courtesy of Wikipedia.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Gang Chen
MIT Course Number
2.58J / 10.74J
As Taught In
Spring 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course investigates the principles of thermal radiation and their applications to engineering heat and photon transfer problems. Topics include quantum and classical models of radiative properties of materials, electromagnetic wave theory for thermal radiation, radiative transfer in absorbing, emitting, and scattering media, and coherent laser radiation. Applications cover laser-material interactions, imaging, infrared instrumentation, global warming, semiconductor manufacturing, combustion, furnaces, and high temperature processing.