Light Scattering by Fractal Aggregates: A Review

By C. Sorensen. 2001

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Subfields: Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Mechanics of Materials, Water Science and Technology

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The Mobility of Fractal Aggregates: A Review (2011, background): “Equation (1) may be considered as the defining relation for fractal aggregates (Sorensen 2001).”
Fractal parameters of individual soot particles determined using electron tomography: Implications for optical properties (2007, background): “In particular, ka is important for the determination of optical properties and interpretation of light-scattering measurements [ Sorensen, 2001 ].”
Light Absorption by Carbonaceous Particles: An Investigative Review (2006, background): “A critical review by Sorensen (2001) covers optics of agglomerated spheres, commonly assumed as the structure of freshly generated LAC.”
Scattering and radiative properties of complex soot and soot-containing aggregate particles (2006, methodology): “Specifically, we used the traditional approach of defining the morphology of a cluster by the number of monomers, their size, the prefactor, and the fractal dimension [19] and based our conclusions on computations of electromagnetic scattering and absorption for only one realization of a cluster ren”
Optical properties of soot–water drop agglomerates: An experimental study (2006, methodology): “While this approach is appropriate for cloud drops in unpolluted regions and aqueous sulfate particles, it is questionable for soot and soot-containing aerosol and cloud drops; therefore far more advanced computational techniques are needed [Fuller et al., 1999; Sorensen, 2001, and references ther”
Review of recent literature on the light absorption properties of black carbon: Refractive index, mass absorption cross section, and absorption function (2020, background): “…assessments of its accuracy and the effects of aggregation or the multiple scattering among PPs (Farias, K€oyl€u, and Carvalho 1996; Liu et al. 2013; Sorensen 2001; Yon et al. 2008; Sorensen et al. 2018), which have concluded that the RDGFA approximation generally underpredicts the aggregate…”
Relationship of refractive index to mass density and self-consistency of mixing rules for multicomponent mixtures like ambient aerosols (2008, background): “However, many studies have shown that some aerosol particles such as combustion aggregates often assume open, fractal-like structures with effective mass density depending on particle sizes (Olfert, Symonds, & Collings, 2007; Sorensen, 2001; Zelenyuk, Cai, Chieffo, & Imre, 2005).”
Observations of the spectral dependence of linear particle depolarization ratio of aerosols using NASA Langley airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (2015, background): “Theoretical calculations of the linear particle depolarization ratio by aggregates of soot are given by, e.g., Sorensen (2001), Bescond et al. (2013), and Kahnert et al. (2012).”
A study of radiative properties of fractal soot aggregates using the superposition T-matrix method (2008, background): “The interested reader is referred to the comprehensive review by Sorensen [2].”
Emissions from the laboratory combustion of wildland fuels: Particle morphology and size (2006, methodology): “…were analyzed using the concept of fractal dimension, which has found widespread use in the field of aerosol science, especially when it comes to morphological quantification of agglomerated aerosols and their optical properties [Colbeck and Nyeki, 1992; Kindratenko et al., 1994; Sorensen, 2001].”