Abstract

This paper presents two conclusions concerning the scattered light distribution method for particle sizing: (1) a large difference in vector values is one of the primary causes of an ill-conditioned kernel matrix, and (2) under narrow band and high resolution particle size conditions, the forward scattering region would introduce a larger error into the particle size distribution. Numerical simulations verify these results.

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