Efficient implementation of the invariant imbedding T-matrix method and the separation of variables method applied to large nonspherical inhomogeneous particles

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 169-183

  Bi, Lei ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Invariant imbedding method; Separation of variables method; T matrix

Indexed keywords

CIRCUMSCRIBED SPHERE; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL PROGRAM; CYLINDER CASE; DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; EXTENDED BOUNDARY CONDITION METHODS; FIELD METHODS; INVARIANT IMBEDDING; LARGE ASPECT RATIO; NON-SPHERICAL; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; SEPARATION OF VARIABLES METHOD; SINGLE SCATTERING; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; T-MATRIX; T-MATRIX METHOD; THREE-TERM; TWO-PARTICLE SYSTEMS; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

ASPECT RATIO; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLASMONS; SEPARATION; SPHERES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CYLINDER; DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPHERE;

EID: 84871934718     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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