Computation of the coupled thermo-optical scattering properties of random particulate systems (Q996677)

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the overall scattering behavior of light by aggregates of randomly distributed particles. In view of this, a ray-tracing algorithm and a stochastic genetic algorithm are presented to treat coupled inverse optical scattering formulations. In here, particulate volume fractions, refractive indices and thermal constants are sought so that the overall response of a sample of randomly distributed particles would match desired coupled scattering, thermal and infrared responses. To illustrate the overall procedure, large-scale numerical simulations are also presented.