Codes for electromagnetic scattering by cylinders

Codes for electromagnetic scattering by cylinders – this article list codes for electromagnetic scattering by a cylinder.

Majority of existing codes for calculation of electromagnetic scattering by a single cylinder are based on Mie theory, which is an analytical solution of Maxwell's equations in terms of infinite series.^[1]

Classification

The compilation contains information about the electromagnetic scattering by cylindrical particles, relevant links, and applications.^[2]

Codes for electromagnetic scattering by a single homogeneous cylinder

Year	Name	Authors	References	Language	Short description
1983	BHCYL	Craig F. Bohren and Donald R. Huffman	[1]	Fortran	Mie solution (infinite series) to scattering, absorption and phase function of electromagnetic waves by a homogeneous cylinder.
1992	SCAOBLIQ2.FOR	H. A. Yousif and E. Boutros	[3]	Fortran	Cylinder, oblique incidence.
2002	Mackowski	D. Mackowski		Fortran	Cylinder, oblique incidence.
2008	jMie2D	Jeffrey M. McMahon		C++	Mie solution. Open-source software.
2015	nwabsorption	Sarath Ramadurgam		MATLAB	Computes various optical properties of a single nanowire with up to 2 shell layers using Mie-formalism.
2017	TMATROM	M. Ganesh and Stuart C. Hawkins	[4]	MATLAB	Numerically stable T-matrix code for cylinders (including with noncircular cross sections).
2020	MieSolver	Stuart C. Hawkins	[5]	MATLAB	One or more cylinders with mixed properties including solid and layered cylinders.

Relevant scattering codes

• Discrete dipole approximation codes
• Codes for electromagnetic scattering by spheres

See also

• Computational electromagnetics
• List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes