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Lari, K., et al.: Modeling of the Conjugate Radiation and Conduction ... THERMAL SCIENCE: Year 2012, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 1187-1200 1187 MODELING OF THE CONJUGATE RADIATION AND CONDUCTION PROBLEM IN A 3-D COMPLEX MULTI-BURNER FURNACE by * Khosro LARI and Seyyed Abdolreza GANDJALIKHAN NASSAB Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran Original scientific paper DOI: 10.2298/TSCI110121034L Radiation is a major component of heat transfer in the modeling of furnaces. In this study, coupled radiative and conductive heat transfer problems are analyzed in complex geometries with inhomogeneous and anisotropic scattering participating media. A 3-D model is developed using combination of the discrete ordinates method and blocked-off-region procedure. The finite volume method has been adopted to solve the energy equation and the radiative source term in the energy equation is computed from intensities field. The accuracy of radiative conductive model is verified by comparison with benchmark solutions from the literature. As an example of engineering problems, radiative-conductive heat transfer in a fur- nace model with gray, inhomogeneous, and anisotropic scattering media is numeri- cally studied. The distributions of temperature and heat flux in the furnace are ana- lyzed for different thermoradiative parameters such as conduction-radiation