Annamaneni PeraiahAn Introduction to Radiative Transfer
Methods and Applications in Astrophysics
Annamaneni Peraiah obtained his doctorate in radiative transfer from Oxford University. He was formerly a Senior Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India. He has held positions in India, Canada, Germany and The Netherlands. His research interests include developing solutions to the radiative transfer equation in stellar atmospheres, and line formation in expanding atmospheres with different physical and geometrical conditions.
Preface
1. Definitions of fundamental quantities of the radiation field
2. The equation of radiative transfer
3. Methods of solution of transfer equation
4. Two-point boundary problems
5. Principle of Invariance
6. Discrete space theory
7. Transfer equation in moving media: the observer frame
8. Radiative transfer equation in the comoving frame
9. Escape probability methods
10. Operator perturbation methods
11. Polarization
12. Polarization in magnetic media
13. Multi-dimensional radiative transfer.
