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The exact spheroidal-function series solution for the time-harmonic acoustic scattering of a plane wave by two fluid confocal prolate spheroids is developed and a numerical implementation is formulated and validated by independent methods.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Edmundo Federico Lavia

In addition to being the eigenfunctions of the restricted Fourier operator, the angular spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero and nonnegative integer characteristic exponents are the solutions of a singular self-adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Rafeh Rehan , James Bremer

The standard algorithm for the numerical evaluation of the prolate spheroidal wave function $\mathsf{Ps}\hskip.05em{}_{n}(x;\gamma^2)$ of order $0$, bandlimit $\gamma > 0$ and characteristic exponent $n$ has running time which grows with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Xinge Zhang , James Bremer

We develop some properties and the Bonnet formula for Clifford Gegenbauer polynomials. Then after we define and construct weighted Clifford prolate spheroidal wave functions. We then prove that they are orthogonal in a weighted function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Hamed Baghal Ghaffari , Swanhild Bernstein

Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics are useful in a variety of physical situations, including light scattering, nuclear modeling, signal processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, black hole perturbation theory in four and higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Marc Casals

This paper presents a new approach for the computation of eigenvalues of the generalized spheroidal wave equations. The novelty of the present method is in the use of the analytical derivatives of the eigenvalues to minimize losses in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Mykhaylo V. Khoma

Generalized prolate spheroidal functions (GPSFs) arise naturally in the study of bandlimited functions as the eigenfunctions of a certain truncated Fourier transform. In one dimension, the theory of GPSFs (typically referred to as prolate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Philip Greengard

Spherical harmonics (SH) have been extensively used as a basis for analyzing the morphology of particles in granular mechanics. The use of SH is facilitated by mapping the particle coordinates onto a unit sphere, in practice often a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-14 Mahmoud Shaqfa , Wim M. van Rees

The estimation of radiative modes is a central problem in gravitational wave theory, with essential applications in signal modeling and data analysis. This problem is complicated by most astrophysically relevant systems' not having modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-01 Lionel London

Generalized Prolate Spheroidal Functions (GPSF) are the eigenfunctions of the truncated Fourier transform, restricted to D-dimensional balls in the spatial domain and frequency domain. Despite their useful properties in many applications,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Roy R. Lederman

This paper presents some new results on the eigenvalues of the spheroidal wave equation. We study the angular and Coulomb spheroidal wave equation as a special case of a more general linear Hamiltonian system depending on three parameters.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Harald Schmid

In this paper we aim to give various explicit and local estimates of ball prolate spheroidal wave functions defined in [25] as eigenfunctions of both finite Fourier transform and some differential operator. In particular, we give further…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Ahmed Souabni

The perturbation method in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSYQM) is used to study the spheroidal wave functions' eigenvalue problem. Expanding the super-potential in series of the parameter alpha, the first order term of ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-11 Guihui Tian , Shuquan Zhong

Analytical solutions to acoustic scattering problems involving nonspherical shapes, such as spheroids and disks, have long been known and have many applications. However, these solutions require special functions that are not easily…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Ross Adelman , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

In order to produce high dynamic range images in radio interferometry, bright extended sources need to be removed with minimal error. However, this is not a trivial task because the Fourier plane is sampled only at a finite number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Sarod Yatawatta

A collection of algorithms in object-oriented MATLAB is described for numerically computing with smooth functions defined on the unit ball in the Chebfun software. Functions are numerically and adaptively resolved to essentially machine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Nicolas Boullé , Alex Townsend

Solutions to the Angular Teukolsky Equation have been used to solve various applied problems in physics and are extremely important to black-hole physics, particularly in computing quasinormal modes and in the extreme-mass-ratio inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-18 Daniel J. Vickers , Gregory B. Cook

In this paper we develop a plane wave type method for discretization of homogeneous Helmholtz equations with variable wave numbers. In the proposed method, local basis functions (on each element) are constructed by the geometric optics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Qiya Hu , Zezhong Wang

Integral equations for the spin-weighted spheroidal wave functions is given. For the prolate spheroidal wave function with m=0, there exists the integral equation whose kernel is(sin x)/x, and the sinc function kernel (sin x)/x is of great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Guihua Tian

The spheroidal wave functions are investigated in the case m=1. The integral equation is obtained for them. For the two kinds of eigenvalues in the differential and corresponding integral equations, the relation between them are given…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-17 Guihua Tian , Shuquan Zhong