Matrix Riccati equation formulation for radiative transfer in a plane-parallel geometry

Waves Random Media

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 129-145

  Chang, Hung Wen ^a   Wu, Tso Lun ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RICCATI EQUATIONS;

MATRIX RICCATI EQUATIONS; PLANE PARALLEL GEOMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030834013     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/7/1/009     Document Type: Article

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