Abstract:
The temperature distribution in rotating circular cylinders heated.by radiation has been studied in this thesis. Analytical solutions have been obtained for solid cylinders rotating with constant angular velocity, with incoming radiation taken perpendicular to the axis of rotation and incident on one side. Thermal equilibrium has been achieved by means of reradiation to the surrounding opposite half-space. The treatment employed makes use of the method of separation of variables with linearized boundary conditions. Results of the study agree very well with works cited where similar problems have been treated employing different mathematical techniques.
