Formula:9611

Digital Library of Mathematical Functions ID 30.13.E6

${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\nabla^{2}=\frac{1}{h_{\xi}h_{\eta}h_{\phi}}\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial\xi}\left(\frac{h_{\eta}h_{\phi}}{h_{\xi}}\frac{\partial}{\partial\xi}\right)+\frac{\partial}{\partial\eta}\left(\frac{h_{\xi}h_{\phi}}{h_{\eta}}\frac{\partial}{\partial\eta}\right)+\frac{\partial}{\partial\phi}\left(\frac{h_{\xi}h_{\eta}}{h_{\phi}}\frac{\partial}{\partial\phi}\right)\right)=\frac{1}{c^{2}(\xi^{2}-\eta^{2})}\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial\xi}\left((\xi^{2}-1)\frac{\partial}{\partial\xi}\right)+\frac{\partial}{\partial\eta}\left((1-\eta^{2})\frac{\partial}{\partial\eta}\right)+\frac{\xi^{2}-\eta^{2}}{(\xi^{2}-1)(1-\eta^{2})}\frac{{\partial}^{2}}{{\partial\phi}^{2}}\right).}}$

Symbols List

• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\frac{\partial\NVar{f}}{\partial\NVar{x}}}}$: partial derivative of $$f$$ with respect to $$x$$
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\partial\NVar{x}}}$: partial differential of $$x$$
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\xi}}$: prolate spheroidal coordinate
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\eta}}$: prolate spheroidal coordinate
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle\phi}}$: prolate spheroidal coordinate
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle c}}$: positive constant
• ${\displaystyle{\displaystyle h_{\xi},h_{\eta},h_{\phi}}}$: metric coefficients
 

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