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 the PSTD model and DDASCAT for an inhomogeneous nonspherical particle ( , , and ). (a) Curves of F₁₁, (b) curves of , (c) curves of , and (d) curves of .