Polarized radiation transfer in finite binary Markovian random media

The problem of polarized radiation transfer in a finite plane-parallel binary Markovian random medium is studied. Pomraning-Eddington approximation is used for both the total intensity and the difference function of the polarized radiation. The formalism obtained by Levermore et al. and Pomraning is used to average the obtained solution in the deterministic case. The random medium is assumed to have specular-reflecting boundaries with angular-dependent externally incident flux. Numerical results of the average reflectivity and the average transmissivity are calculated for the different degrees of polarization. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.