New lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of three-dimensional radiation transfer in turbid media
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Based on the kinetic theory of photons, a new lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of 3D radiation transport is presented. The method was successfully validated with Monte Carlo simulations of radiation transport in optical thick absorbing and non-absorbing turbid media containing either isotropic or anisotropic scatterers. Moreover, for the approximation of Mie-scattering, a new iterative algebraic approach for the discretization of the scattering phase function was developed, ensuring full conservation of energy and asymmetry after discretization. It was found that the main error sources of the method are caused by linearization and ray effects and suggestions for further improvement of the method are made.
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Lattice Boltzmann methods have been developed to solve the RTE, and some models are included in open software codes.
“Recently, lattice Boltzmann methods as another class of methods were developed to solve the Radiative transfer equation [13,21,209-212] and some models are included in open software codes [213].”
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- McHardy, C., Horneber, T., & Rauh, C.
- Affiliations
- Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
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- Optics Express
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 2016-07-19
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 15
- Pages
- 16999
- ISSN
- 1094-4087 (ISSN-L)
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Radiative Heat Transfer Studies
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Acoustics and Ultrasonics › Random lasers and scattering media
- Keywords
- lattice Boltzmann method, radiative transfer, turbid media, 3D radiative transfer, anisotropic scattering, Mie scattering, energy conservation (physics), ray effects, absorbing media
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