TY - JOUR
TI - Inversion of spheroid particle size distribution in wider size range and aspect ratio range
AU - Tang Hong
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2013
VL - 17
IS - 5
SP - 1395
EP - 1402
PT - Article
AB - The non-spherical particle sizing is very important in the aerosol science,  and it can be determined by the light extinction measurement. This paper  studies the effect of relationship of the size range and aspect ratio range  on the inversion of spheroid particle size distribution by the dependent mode  algorithm. The T matrix method and the geometric optics approximation method  are used to calculate the extinction efficiency of the spheroids with  different size range and aspect ratio range, and the inversion of spheroid  particle size distribution in these different ranges is conducted. Numerical  simulation indicates that a fairly reasonable representation of the spheroid  particle size distribution can be obtained when the size range and aspect  ratio range are suitably chosen.