Time-dependent radiation transfer in a semi-infinite stochastic medium with Rayleigh scattering

Abstract

The time-dependent radiation transfer in a semi-infinite stochastic medium of binary Markovian mixture with Rayleigh scattering is presented. A formalism, developed to treat radiation transfer in statistical mixtures, is used to obtain the ensemble-averaged solution. The average reflectivity, radiant energy and net flux are computed for specular-reflecting boundary. For the sake of comparison, we use two different weight functions in our calculations.