Architectured Materials for the Control of Radiative Heat Transfer

This book is part of a four-volume set designed to provide students, engineers, and researchers with advanced knowledge for the design and development of architectured materials engineered to control radiative heat transfer in energy-related applications. The series is based on 14 written courses delivered during the CNRS thematic school MATTER (Architectured Materials for the Control of Radiative Heat Transfer: From Material Elaboration Processes to Industrial Applications), held from May 10–15, 2022, and organized by the French research network TAMARYS.

This fourth volume focuses on the numerical design of architectured materials with prescribed radiative and thermal properties. It introduces tomographic techniques for the 3D characterization of materials, including X-ray, TEM, and STEM tomography. Methods for modeling the thermal emission of thin multilayer structures and reverse design strategies using metaheuristic algorithms are presented in detail. The final part is dedicated to porous materials, covering their digital generation, ray tracing techniques, identification of radiative properties, and conductive–radiative coupling. Applications include selective thermal emitters, volumetric solar receivers, and high-temperature heat exchangers.