Optimizing the discrete-dipole approximation for sequences of scatterers with identical shapes but differing sizes or refractive indices

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 100, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 288-294

  Muinonen, Karri ^a   Zubko, Evgenij ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Discrete dipole approximation; Light scattering; Nonsphericity; Remote sensing; Small particles

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; EXTRAPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING;

CUBIC PARTICLES; DISCRETE-DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; NONSPHERICITY; SCATTERERS; SPHERICAL PARTICLES;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33645036302     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2005.11.045     Document Type: Article

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