Regions of validity of the geometric optics approximation for angular scattering from very rough surfaces

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-59

  Tang, Kakuen ^a   Dimenna, Ralph A ^a   Buckius, Richard O ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ANGULAR SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; EXTINCTION THEOREM; ONE DIMENSIONAL; RADIATIVE SCATTERING; RAY TRACING; REGIONS OF VALIDITY; SURFACE SLOPE;

HEAT RADIATION;

EID: 0031059895     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0017-9310(96)00073-7     Document Type: Article

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