INVARIANT IMBEDDING AND RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN SLABS OF FINITE THICKNESSPDF电子书下载

Introduction 1

CHAPTER ONE THE PHYSICAL MODEL 5

1．The Radiative-transfer Model 5

2．The Classical Transport Equation 6

3．Invariant Imbedding 6

4．Discussion 9

CHAPTER TWO COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES 11

1．Gaussian Quadrature 11

2．Zeros of Legendre Polynomials；Christoffel Numbers 12

3．Approximate System of Differential Equations 13

4．The Computational Method 15

5．Computational Results 16

CHAPTER THREE ANALYTIC ASPECTS 21

1．Existence and Uniqueness--Ⅰ 21

2．Existence and Uniqueness--Ⅱ 22

3．The Reduced Equation 22

4．Successive Approximations 23

5．Monotonicity 23

6．Limiting Behavior as x→∞ 24

7．Convergence 24

8．Some Open Questions 25

CHAPTER FOUR COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS 27

1．Typical Reflection Functions 27

2．Comparison with Ambarzumian＇s Results 28

3．Comparison with Chandrasekhar＇s Results 29

4．Additional Checks 30

References 33

Appendix 37

Index 345