An Abstract Model for Radiative Transfer in an Atmosphere with Reflection by the Planetary Surface
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis
- Vol. 16 (4) , 695-702
- https://doi.org/10.1137/0516052
Abstract
A Hilbert space model is developed that applies to radiative transfer in a homogeneous, plane-parallel planetary atmosphere. Reflection and absorption by the planetary surface are taken into account by imposing a reflective boundary condition. The existence and uniqueness of the solution of this boundary value problem are established by proving the invertibility of a scattering operator using the Fredholm alternative.Keywords
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