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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Modelling and Simulation in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 285108, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2011/285108 Research Article Comparison of Two Models for Radiative Heat Transfer in High Temperature Thermal Plasmas ´ Matthieu Melot, Jean-Yves Trepanier, Ricardo Camarero, and Eddy Petro Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, Canada H3C 3A7 ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Jean-Yves Trepanier, jean-yves.trepanier@polymtl.ca Received 7 March 2011; Accepted 17 June 2011 Academic Editor: A. Mohamed Copyright © 2011 Matthieu Melot et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Numerical simulation of the arc-flow interaction in high-voltage circuit breakers requires a radiation model capable of handling high-temperature participating thermal plasmas. The modeling of the radiative transfer plays a critical role in the overall accuracy of such CFD simulations. As a result of the increase of computational power, CPU intensive methods based on the radiative transfer equation, leading to more accurate results, are now becoming attractive alternatives to current approximate models. In this paper, the predictive capabilities of the finite volume method (RTE-FVM) and the P1 model are investigated. A systematic comparison between these two models and analytical solutions are presented for a variety of relevant test cases. Two implementations of each approach are compared, and a c