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Radiation in Absorbing-Scattering Media Theory
The Radiation in Absorbing-Scattering Media Interface is available in 2D, 2D axisymmetric, and 3D components to model the propagation, attenuation, and scattering of an incident light within a semitransparent material considered to be non-emitting.
The radiative intensity I(Ω) at a given position following the Ω direction is the solution of the radiative transfer equation with no emission term (see Ref. 22):
(4-122)
where
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κ, β, σs are absorption, extinction, and scattering coefficients, respectively (SI unit: 1/m) and are related by:
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is the scattering phase function (SI unit: 1)
See Radiative Transfer Equation for details about the phase function, .
The incident radiation, denoted G (SI unit: W/m2), is defined by
If the Discrete Ordinates Method (DOM) is used for the approximation of Equation 4-122, G is computed as
and
where
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Si is the ith discrete ordinate.
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Ii is the ith component of the radiative intensity.
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ωj is the ith quadrature weight.
If the P1 Approximation Theory is used instead, G is the solution of the following equation,
(4-123),
with the following boundary condition for an opaque surface,
,
where DP1 is the P1 diffusion coefficient and ε the surface emissivity.