Abstract:
                                      The radiative heat transfer of one-dimensional plane-parallel slabs under radiative equilibrium was investigated by Discrete Ordinate Method (DOM): The selection of angular quadrature schemes, which is very important to the accuracy and calculation time of DOM, was studied. The accuracy of the 
SN approximation quadrature scheme, Fiveland's angular quadrature scheme with equal weights 
FN and Gauss angular quadrature scheme 
GN was analyzed. It shows that the accuracy and computation time of DOM increases with the increase of the order of each quadrature scheme. The accuracy of DOM is different from each other for the three quadrature schemes with the same order and 
FN is the best one among them. As a conclusion, 
FN is recommended in DOM calculations.