The discrete-dipole-approximation code ADDA: Capabilities and known limitations

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2234-2247

  Yurkin, Maxim A ^a,b   Hoekstra, Alfons G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND COMBUSTION   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer program; Discrete dipole approximation; Light scattering simulation; Very large particles

Indexed keywords

3D OBJECT; ARBITRARY SHAPE; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CROSS SECTION; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; FULL CONTROL; HIGHLY-PORTABLE; INCIDENT BEAMS; LARGE PARTICLES; LIGHT SCATTERING SIMULATION; MUELLER MATRIX; OPEN-SOURCE CODE; PARALLELIZING; PARTICLE MORPHOLOGIES; PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION; SCATTERING GEOMETRIES; SEQUENTIAL EXECUTION; SIMULATION RESULT; SIZE PARAMETERS;

LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; SPHERES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

LIGHT SCATTERING; NUMERICAL METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOFTWARE; SPHERE;

EID: 79960900591     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.01.031     Document Type: Article

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