ISSN:
0934-0866
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
The coupled dipole method, as originally formulated by Purcell and Pennypacker [3], is a very powerful method to simulate the elastic light scattering from arbitrary particles. This method, however, has one major drawback: if the size of the particles grows, or if scattering from an ensemble of randomly oriented particles has to be simulated, the computational demands of the coupled dipole method soon become too high. This paper presents two new computational techniques to resolve this problem. First the coupled dipole method was implemented on a massively parallel computer. The parallel efficiency can be very close to 1, implying that the attained computational speed scales perfectly with the number of processors. Second, it is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of the coupled dipole method by including ideas from the so-called fast multipole methods (hierarchical algorithms) into the coupled dipole method. In this way calculation time can be decreased by orders of magnitude.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.19940110304
Permalink