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Purdue ME606: Equation of Radiative Transfer (RTE): Lecture 11

Equation of Radiation Transfer (RTE)

Sum the contribution from self-emission absorption, at scattering and in scattering for dIη.

First, we can write:

dI_\eta   = \frac{{\partial I_\eta  }}{{\partial t}}dt + \frac{{\partial I_\eta  }}{{\partial s}}ds

Devide all former terms by ds

\frac{{dt}}{{ds}}\frac{{\partial I_\eta  }}{{\partial t}} + \frac{{\partial I_\eta  }}{{\partial s}} = \kappa _\eta  I_{b\eta }  - \kappa _\eta  I_\eta   - \sigma _\eta  I_\eta   + \frac{{\sigma _\eta  }}{{4\pi }}\int\limits_{4\pi } {I_\eta  \phi _\eta  dw_i }

\frac{{dI_\eta  }}{{ds}} = \kappa _\eta  I_{b\eta }  - \beta _\eta  I_\eta   + \frac{{\sigma _\eta  }}{{4\pi }}\int\limits_{4\pi } {I_\eta  \phi _\eta  dw_i }

= \hat s \cdot \nabla I_\eta

This is an integro-differential equation -tough to solve

Another form: introduce scattering albedo

\equiv w_\eta   = \frac{{\sigma _{_\eta  } }}{{\chi _{_\eta  }  + \sigma _{_\eta  } }} = \frac{{\sigma _{_\eta  } }}{{\beta _{_\eta  } }}


\frac{1}{{\beta _\eta  }}\frac{{dI_\eta  }}{{ds}} =  - I_\eta   + (1 - w_\eta  )I_{b\eta }  + \frac{{w_\eta  }}{{4\pi }}\int\limits_{4\pi } {I_\eta  \phi _\eta  dw_i }

= \frac{{dI_\eta  }}{{d\tau _\eta  }}

τη= optical distance and


dIη = βηds

Last modified on 12 Oct, 2008