Assessment of two fractal scattering models for the prediction of the optical characteristics of soot aggregates

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 110, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 315-322

  Zhao, Yan ^a   Ma, Lin ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal scattering; Mueller matrix; Soot aggregates

Indexed keywords

DUST; FRACTALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SCATTERING; SOOT;

AGGREGATE SIZES; ANGULAR SCATTERINGS; CONTOUR PLOTS; FRACTAL AGGREGATES; FRACTAL SCATTERING; HYBRID MODELS; LASER SCATTERINGS; MUELLER MATRIX; MUELLER SCATTERING MATRIXES; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SCATTERING ANGLES; SCATTERING CROSS SECTIONS; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; SOOT AGGREGATES; WIDE SPECTRUMS;

AGGREGATES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SCATTERING; SOOT;

EID: 60949109503     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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