Coniferous forests represent canopies with a high heterogeneity in the horizontal and as well in the vertical dimension. Consequently the interaction of incident radiation is dominated by the complex 3-D canopy structure and architecture. Radiative transfer approaches based on coupled leaf and canopy radiative transfer models (RTM) still allow the simulation of the multidirectional canopy refle...

Method for water vapor profile retrievals by means of minimizing difference between estimated and actual brightness temperatures derived from AIRS data and radiative transfer model is proposed. Initial value is determined by linearized radiative transfer equation. It is found that this initial value determination method makes improvement of estimation accuracy together with reducing convergence...

The radiative transfer equation is an integro-differential equation whose efficient numerical solution requires significant computational resources. In the present study, we seek to unite two powerful techniques in contemporary scientific computing: the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods and computation on graphics processing units (GPU) for solving the radiative transfer equation. Significant...

Combined radiation and natural convection within the annular region of two infinitely long horizontal concentric cylinders are investigated numerically in this research. Radial and tangential radiation effects ate considered using Milne-Eddington approximation for a two-dimensional radiative transfer. The basic conservation equations are discretized with the finite volume method and SIMPLER alg...

The mathematical formulation of the continuum approach to radiative transfer modeling in two-phase semi-transparent media is numerically validated by comparing radiative fluxes computed by (i) direct, discrete-scale and (ii) continuum-scale approaches. The analysis is based on geometrical optics. The discrete-scale approach uses the Monte Carlo ray-tracing applied directly to real 3D geometry m...

abstract: this work presents a numerical study to investigate the heat transfer characteristics of a 2-d rectangular composite porous radiant burner (cprb). in the construction of porous burner, the porous layer is considered to be composite consisting of upstream and downstream layers with equal thickness but with different physical and radiative properties. in the present work, a two dimensio...

Abstract Dust is a major component of the interstellar medium. Through scattering, absorption and thermal re-emission, it can profoundly alter astrophysical observations. Models for dust composition distribution are necessary to better understand curb their impact on A new approach serial computationally inexpensive production such models here presented. Traditionally these studied with help ra...