Light Scattering Reviews 5: Single Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer (Springer Praxis Books)

The "Light Scattering Reviews" book is a comprehensive guide to modern techniques for simulating and understanding light scattering in densely packed media, including clusters or aggregates of spherical particles.

With exact solutions for small number of macroscopic scattering particles, this book provides valuable insights into the behavior of light in complex optical systems.

The author presents techniques for generating shapes of aggregates and performs orientation averaging through numerical integration, offering a detailed overview of various methods such as T-matrix method, discrete dipole approximation, finite difference time domain method, effective medium theory, and generalized multi-particle Mie solution.

Additionally, the book covers recent advances in numerical techniques like grouping and adding method and Monte Carlo method for numerical orientation averaging.

This is a must-read for researchers and engineers working in the field of optics, photonics, and related areas, providing them with the necessary tools to accurately model and analyze complex light scattering phenomena.