Radiative Transfer

by Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

Book Overview

"Radiative Transfer is the definitive work in the field. It provides workers and students in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies with the foundation for the analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Though radiative transfer has been investigated chiefly as a phenomenon of astrophysics, in recent years it has attracted the attentions of physicists as well, since essentially the same...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000EGMVO
• ISBN13: 9780486605906
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Clearly a classic

I have not had time to get too far into it yet , but the clarity and completeness of the geometric analysis of the phenomena being examined is sufficient to warrant the work a classic