WEBSCAT: A web application for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from small particles

- An online web application is developed.
- It can simulate plane wave scattering from spherical and nonspherical particles.
- The web application can address both direct and inverse scattering problems.
- The web application is proved to be accurate and reliable.

Development of an online web application to simulate and display plane wave scattering from small particles is presented. In particular, the computation of angular variation of the scattering properties (scattering matrix elements, scattering coefficients, single scattering albedo etc.) of particulate matter by using the Mie theory and the T-matrix method was incorporated in the application. Comparison of the results generated by using the web application with other reported benchmark results has shown that the web application is accurate and reliable for electromagnetic scattering computations.