Light-scattering model for aerosol particles with irregular shapes and inhomogeneous compositions using a parallelized pseudo-spectral time-domain technique

Hu Shuai^{1, 2}, Gao Taichang^{1, 2, †}, Li Hao¹, Liu Lei¹, Chen Ming¹, Yang Bo^{1, 2}

(color online) Comparison between the scattering phase matrices simulated by PSTD and Lorenz–Mie theory for a large spherical particle ( ). (a) Curves of F₁₁ and its relative simulation errors; ((b), (c)) curves of and its absolute simulation errors; ((d), (e)) curves of and its absolute simulation errors; ((f), (g)) curves of and its absolute simulation errors.