Computing Toroidal Functions for Wide Ranges of the Parameters

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 204-217

  Gil, Amparo ^a   Segura, Javier ^a   Temme, Nico M ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Legendre functions; Toroidal harmonics; Uniform asymptotics

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED LEGENDRE FUNCTIONS; CONTINUED FRACTION; DIRICHLET PROBLEM; LEGENDRE'S FUNCTIONS; RECURRENCE RELATIONS; SERIES EXPANSION; TOROIDAL HARMONIC; TOROIDAL SYMMETRY; UNIFORM ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; UNIFORM ASYMPTOTICS;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0001660399     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2000.6498     Document Type: Article

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