Diffraction by rectangular parallelepiped, hexagonal cylinder, and three-axis ellipsoid: Some analytic solutions and numerical results

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1836-1843

  Takano, Y ^a   Liou, K N ^a   Yang, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fraunhofer diffraction; Light scattering; Nonspherical particles

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC SOLUTION; FRAUNHOFER DIFFRACTION; INTENSITY PATTERNS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPEDS; SPECIFIC ORIENTATION; THREE-AXIS ELLIPSOID;

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); LIGHT SCATTERING;

DIFFRACTION;

DIFFRACTION; ELLIPSE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84862773097     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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