Inelastic Scattering and Participating Media.Application to the ocean

Abstract

A system, developed to treat general participating media, is generalized to make it capable of considering volumetric inelastic processes such as fluorescence. The system is based on the discrete ordinates method, and can treat complex participating medium such as natural waters. It can deal with highly-peaked anisotropic phase functions and can handle the spectral behavior of the medium's characteristic parameters.The system is applied to the study of fluorescence, the most common inelastic effect in natural waters.