D.N. Nicolae, C. Talianu, M.Ciobanu, C. Radu, V. Babin, C.P. Cristescu, Analytical averaging method in scattering of light by ensembles of nonspherical aerosols, J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater., 6/3 (2004) 831-840

Title: Analytical averaging method in scattering of light by ensembles of nonspherical aerosols

Abstract: In many fields of science and engineering, accurate information about light scattering properties of small nonspherical particles are necessary. In the so-called resonance region of particle size parameters, numerical methods for computing nonspherical scattering must be based on directly solving Maxwell's equations, because Rayleigh and geometric optics approximations are inapplicable. In this paper, we review the status of Waterman's T-matrix. approach and we present some results obtained by computing orientationally-averaged light scattering characteristics for ensembles of nonspherical particles.

Key words: light scattering; nonspherical particles; aerosols

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