DOI: 10.1615/ICHMT.1995.RadTransfProc
ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-068-9
ISSN Online: 2642-5629
ISSN Flash Drive: 2642-5661
TRANSIENT RADIATIVE TRANSFER
ABSTRACT
This paper outlines the formulation of the transient transport of radiation through scattering absorbing media and discusses the need for developing methods for predicting and evaluating transient radiative transfer. Various simplifications of the general radiative transfer equation and different approximate methods of solution are considered to indicate the difficulties associated with analyzing transient transport. Applications where these results are important include the transport of femtosecond and picosecond laser pulses through absorbing and scattering medium such as in optical tomography for non-invasive imaging of tissues or probing the characteristics of particulate medium by examing the transmitted or back-scattered transients.