A numerical combination of extended boundary condition method and invariant imbedding method applied to light scattering by large spheroids and cylinders

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 123, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-22

  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

Extended boundary condition method; Invariant imbedding method; Light scattering; T matrix

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; CYLINDRICAL PARTICLES; EXTENDED BOUNDARY CONDITION METHODS; INVARIANT IMBEDDING; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NUMERICAL PERFORMANCE; PARTICLE ASPECT RATIOS; T-MATRIX;

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CYLINDER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84876844316     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.11.033     Document Type: Article

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