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Numerical simulations of light scattering and absorption characteristics of aggregates

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A non-sphericity of a particle plays an important role in light scattering processes, resulting in different scattering and absorption of incident light compared with spherical particles. Among various non-spherical shapes of particles, aggregates of small particles are often applied as model shapes to particles observed actually in nature, such as dust from cometary nuclei, soot aerosols floating in the Earth’s atmosphere, and microbiocells composed of sets of small organic cells.

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Okada, Y. (2010). Numerical simulations of light scattering and absorption characteristics of aggregates. In: Kokhanovsky, A. (eds) Light Scattering Reviews 5. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10336-0_1

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