ADDA swMATH ID: 30342 Software Authors: M. A. Yurkin; A. G. Hoekstra Description: The discrete-dipole-approximation code ADDA: Capabilities and known limitations. The open-source code ADDA is described, which implements the discrete dipole approximation (DDA), a method to simulate light scattering by finite 3D objects of arbitrary shape and composition. Besides standard sequential execution, ADDA can run on a multiprocessor distributed-memory system, parallelizing a single DDA calculation. Hence the size parameter of the scatterer is in principle limited only by total available memory and computational speed. ADDA is written in C99 and is highly portable. It provides full control over the scattering geometry (particle morphology and orientation, and incident beam) and allows one to calculate a wide variety of integral and angle-resolved scattering quantities (cross sections, the Mueller matrix, etc.). Moreover, ADDA incorporates a range of state-of-the-art DDA improvements, aimed at increasing the accuracy and computational speed of the method. We discuss both physical and computational aspects of the DDA simulations and provide a practical introduction into performing such simulations with the ADDA code. We also present several simulation results, in particular, for a sphere with size parameter 320 (100-wavelength diameter) and refractive index 1.05. Homepage: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407311000562 Source Code: https://github.com/adda-team/adda Related Software: MatScat; inclusion; NFM-DS Cited in: 4 Documents all top 5 Cited by 11 Authors 2 Carpio, Ana 2 Dimiduk, Thomas G. 1 Costabel, Martin 1 Cui, Zhiwei 1 Darrigrand, Eric 1 Han, Yiping 1 Le Louër, Frédérique 1 Rapún, María-Luisa 1 Sakly, Hamdi 1 Selgas, Virginia 1 Vidal, Perfecto Cited in 4 Serials 1 Computers & Mathematics with Applications 1 Journal of Computational Physics 1 Physics Reports 1 SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences Cited in 4 Fields 4 Optics, electromagnetic theory (78-XX) 2 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 1 Partial differential equations (35-XX) 1 Integral equations (45-XX) Citations by Year