Discrete Dipole Approximation Code Ddscat 7.2 (2012)
Summary
This arXiv entry is the user guide for DDSCAT 7.2, a freely available open-source Fortran-90 package implementing the discrete dipole approximation to compute electromagnetic scattering and absorption by targets with arbitrary geometries. It covers features such as various target shapes, periodic structures, near-field calculations, and parallelization with MPI, OpenMP, and MKL, along with data I/O utilities.