ABSTRACT

Radiative transfer is the most common energy transport phenomenon that we feel around us every day. The Sun’s energy travels to the earth in the form of electromagnetic waves, is selectively absorbed, and scattered as it goes through atmospheric layers, before eventually heating up everything around us. Radiation allows us to see and sense everything in our surroundings as light or heat. In this process, it is not only the strength of radiative energy that is important, but also how it interacts with matter and how it energizes all the living organisms.