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In 3D single particle imaging with X-ray free-electron lasers, particle orientation is not recorded during measurement but is instead recovered as a necessary step in the reconstruction of a 3D image from the diffraction data. Here we use…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-05-25 Julien Flamant , Nicolas Le Bihan , Andrew V. Martin , Jonathan H. Manton

The mathematical representations of data in the Spherical Harmonic (SH) domain has recently regained increasing interest in the machine learning community. This technical report gives an in-depth introduction to the theoretical foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Janis Keuper

We derive the $\mathcal{T}$-matrix formalism tailored for numerical analysis of second-harmonic (SH) generation from arbitrarily shaped particles made of centrosymmetric optical materials. First, the transfer matrix of a single particle is…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-18 Ivan Sekulic , Ji Tong Wang , Jian Wei You , Nicolae C. Panoiu

Real-space refinement of atomic models in macromolecular crystallography or in cryo electron microscopy fits a model to a map obtained experimentally. This requires generating model maps of a limited resolution which moreover may vary from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ludmila Urzhumtseva , Vladimir Y. Lunin , Alexandre Urzhumtsev

We present a fully analytic approach for evaluating boundary integrals in two dimensions for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). Conventional methods often rely on boundary particles or wall re-normalization approaches derived from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Rene Winchenbach , Andreas Kolb

Satisfactory description of gravitational and gravity potentials is needed for a proper modelling of a wide spectrum of physical problems on various size scales, ranging from atmosphere dynamics up to the movements of stars in a galaxy. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-25 Pavel Strunz

Spherical harmonics provide a smooth, orthogonal, and symmetry-adapted basis to expand functions on a sphere, and they are used routinely in physical and theoretical chemistry as well as in different fields of science and technology, from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Filippo Bigi , Guillaume Fraux , Nicholas J. Browning , Michele Ceriotti

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a unique numerical method widely used for astrophysical problems since it involves no spatial grid. Rather, fluid quantities are carried by a set of Lagrangian `particles' which move with the flow,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Daniel Price

We develop a systematic framework for constructing spherical harmonics on the two-dimensional unit sphere as superpositions of Gaussian beams whose poles form well-separated point configurations. The distributional and analytic properties…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Xiaolong Han

We present a practical guide to Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (\SPH) and its application to astrophysical problems. Although remarkably robust, \SPH\ must be used with care if the results are to be meaningful since the accuracy of \SPH\…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. J. Martin , F. R. Pearce , P. A. Thomas

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 this paper we study the recurrence relations in the spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics (SWSHs) through super-symmetric quantum mechanics. We use the shape invariance property to solve the spin-weighted spheroidal wave equations. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-26 Guihua Tian , Huihui Wang

A numerical method based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics with adaptive spatial resolution (SPH-ASR) was developed for simulating free surface flows. This method can reduce the computational demands while maintaining the numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Xiufeng Yang , Song-Charng Kong , Moubin Liu , Qingquan Liu

In this paper, we present a robust spherical harmonics approach for the classification of point cloud-based objects. Spherical harmonics have been used for classification over the years, with several frameworks existing in the literature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ayman Mukhaimar , Ruwan Tennakoon , Chow Yin Lai , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

The authors present SHarmonic, a new implementation of the spherical harmonics targeted for electronic-structure calculations. Their approach is to use explicit formulas for the harmonics written in terms of normalized Cartesian…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Xavier Andrade , Jacopo Simoni , Yuan Ping , Tadashi Ogitsu , Alfredo A. Correa

We present in this paper a spectrally accurate numerical method for computing the spherical/vector spherical harmonic expansion of a function/vector field with given (elemental) nodal values on a spherical surface. Built upon suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Bo Wang , Li-Lian Wang , Ziqing Xie

The smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique is a numerical method for solving gas-dynamical problems. It has been applied to simulate the evolution of a wide variety of astrophysical systems. The method has a second-order accuracy,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Domingo García-Senz , Rubén M. Cabezón , José A. Escartín , Kevin Ebinger

Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

The orthonormal set of Spherical Harmonics provides a natural way of expanding whole sky redshift and peculiar velocity surveys.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ofer Lahav

In this paper we propose an accurate, and computationally efficient method for incorporating adaptive spatial resolution into weakly-compressible Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) schemes. Particles are adaptively split and merged in an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-17 Abhinav Muta , Prabhu Ramachandran