Finite-difference time-domain solution of light scattering by arbitrarily shaped particles and surfaces

Light Scattering Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-113

  Sun, Wenbo ^a   Videen, Gorden ^b   Fu, Qiang ^c   Tanev, Stoyan ^d   Lin, Bing ^a   Hu, Yongxiang ^a   Liu, Zhaoyan ^a   Huang, Jianping ^e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ARBITRARY SURFACES; ELECTROMAGNETIC STRUCTURE; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SOLUTION; IRREGULARLY SHAPED PARTICLES; LIGHT SCATTERING AND ABSORPTIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING MODEL; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876871385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15531-4_3     Document Type: Chapter

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