Radiative transfer computations for optical beams

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-60

  Kim, Arnold D ^a   Moscoso, Miguel ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropic scattering; Beams; Radiative transfer; Spectral methods

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FORWARD SCATTERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

A-PLANE; ANISOTROPIC SCATTERING; AZIMUTHAL ANGLE; BEAM; BEAM WAVES; DIRECT-NUMERICAL-SIMULATION; OPTICAL BEAMS; POLAR ANGLES; SPECTRAL METHODS; TRANSFER COMPUTATION;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 0037429525     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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