Questions tagged [radiative-transfer]
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What are those weird flux-like quantities ($N$-notation?) I see in astrophysics papers?
I have been reading some astrophysics papers on Fermi Bubbles and in a lot of them, diagrams depicting SEDs use a weird $ E^2 \, \frac{\text{d}N}{\text{d}E} $ quantity, in units of $ \left[ \frac{\...
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Heat transfer on Mars
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I have been tasked with finding the heat transfer across a composite wall on Mars.
On the left of the wall there is air maintained at Earth atmospheric conditions and room temperature (101 ...
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How do surface temperatures drop in response to optical depth?
I'm trying to come up with a super simple estimate for how atmospheric surface temperatures would be affected by a substance overhead with some optical depth $\tau$. I'll assume that the sun is always ...
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How does a volcanic eruption cool the planet's surface?
For example, after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 according to this paper,
The introduction of large amounts of sulphuric acid aerosol into the stratosphere increases the planetary albedo (...
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Brightness Temperature layered atmosphere
I'm trying to figure out how to apply the radiative transfer model to calculate the brightness temperature Tb in microwave (Rayleigh–Jeans approximation) considering atmosphere and no scattering.
If I ...
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Can the optical depth vary in a cloud of homegeneous temperature and density?
For the cloud in the title, could $\tau \gg 1$ in one spatial direction and $\tau \ll 1$ in another? Since its density is homogeneous, I think $\tau$ would be the same in any direction if we measure ...
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Radiation Heat Transfer of 3 surfaces in a cylinder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZGj-NxqnU&list=PLZOZfX_TaWAHZOgn8CRjpqRElp5Dd-GaY&index=22&ab_channel=CPPMechEngTutorials
Hello I am following the examples of radiation heat transfer and ...
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How do I understand the time evolution of gas temperature in this paper?
I am reading this paper
Title: "Radiative transfer through Galactic medium"
I am having some problems with equation $(8)$:
$$\frac{dT}{dt}=\frac{2(G-L)}{3kn}+\frac Tn\frac{dn_e}{dt}-3\frac{\...
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Net flux in radiative transfer
I encountered the need of computing the net flux of a specific intensity given by
$$I_{ex}(\theta,\phi) = I_0 \delta(\theta) \delta(\phi)$$
traversing an horizontal plane whose normal coincides with ...
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How many scattering events happen in the atmosphere over 1 km?
In Vector Monte Carlo Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulations, they take a Stokes vector, let's say [1,1,0,0] and multiply it with a matrix, with elements close to 1. But if there are much ...
