Symmetry relations for forward and backward scattering by randomly oriented particles

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 483-492

  Hovenier, J W ^a   Mackowski, D W ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; NONDIAGONAL ELEMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ONE PLANE OF SYMMETRY; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SCATTERING MATRICES; SYMMETRY CONSIDERATION; SYMMETRY RELATIONS;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

EID: 0004501420     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(98)00022-3     Document Type: Article

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