“…The progress in computer engineering and numerical methods for boundary-value problems makes it possible to obtain more accurate solutions. Nevertheless, simple and physically clear differential approximations are widely used at present for solving the radiative transfer problems in scattering media, particularly in combined heat transfer problems (Öziik, 1973;Viskanta, 1982Viskanta, , 2005Rubtsov, 1984;Dombrovsky, 1996a;. All the differential approximations for RTE are based on simple assumptions concerning the angular dependence of the spectral radiation intensity I λ .…”