Title Radiative Transfer : An Introduction to Exact and Asymptotic Methods Author(s) Frisch, H??l??ne Publication Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer 2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. Description XXXII, 593 p. 50 illus : online resource Abstract Note This book discusses analytic and asymptotic methods relevant to radiative transfer in dilute media, such as stellar and planetary atmospheres. Several methods, providing exact expressions for the radiation field in a semi-infinite atmosphere, are described in detail and applied to unpolarized and polarized continuous spectra and spectral lines. Among these methods, the Wiener???Hopf method, introduced in 1931 for a stellar atmospheric problem, is used today in fields such as solid mechanics, diffraction theory, or mathematical finance. Asymptotic analyses are carried out on unpolarized and polarized radiative transfer equations and on a discrete time random walk. Applicable when photons undergo a large number of scatterings, they provide criteria to distinguish between large-scale diffusive and non-diffusive behaviors, typical scales of variation of the radiation field, such as the thermalization length, and specific descriptions for regions close and far from boundaries. Its well organized synthetic view of exact and asymptotic methods of radiative transfer makes this book a valuable resource for both graduate students and professional scientists in astrophysics and beyond ISBN,Price 9783030952471 Keyword(s) 1. ASTROPHYSICS 2. EBOOK 3. EBOOK - SPRINGER 4. Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer 5. Heat engineering 6. HEAT TRANSFER 7. Light-Matter Interaction 8. MASS TRANSFER 9. Mathematical Methods in Physics 10. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 11. OPTICS 12. THERMODYNAMICS Item Type Book Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I12404     On Shelf