A multiple sphere T-matrix Fortran code for use on parallel computer clusters

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2182-2192

  Mackowski, D W ^a   Mishchenko, M I ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple sphere scattering; Numerical methods; T matrix method

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY; EFFICIENCY FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FORTRAN CODES; GAUSSIANS; INCIDENT BEAMS; INCIDENT FIELDS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MULTIPLE SPHERE SCATTERING; PARALLEL COMPUTER; PLANE WAVE; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SCATTERING MATRIX ELEMENTS; T-MATRIX; T-MATRIX METHOD;

ABSORPTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MESSAGE PASSING; NUMERICAL METHODS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

SPHERES;

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX; NUMERICAL METHOD; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SPHERE;

EID: 79960906788     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.02.019     Document Type: Article

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