Atmospheric particle scattering computation using higher order MoM-SIE method

Full-wave computational electromagnetics (CEM) approach based on the method of moments (MoM) for solving surface integral equations (SIEs) is proposed for atmospheric particle scattering analysis. The methodology is implemented as a higher order CEM technique. The paper demonstrates that the higher order MoM-SIE approach is much more efficient, accurate, general, and robust than the conventionally and almost exclusively used tools in atmospheric scattering analysis, namely, the T-matrix method and the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method.