Gauss-Legendre approximations for the Hubbell rectangular-source integral

DOI10.1016/0377-0427(93)E0210-DMaRDI QIDQ1893598zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frank G. Lether

Publication date 4 July 1995

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0427(93)e0210-d

zbMATH Keywords

Appell's hypergeometric functionGauss-Legendre quadratureHubbell rectangular-source integralnonlinear approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Numerical quadrature and cubature formulas (65D32) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Review text

Gauss-Legendre quadrature is used to generate some new approximation formulas for \(f(a,b)\), where \(f(a,b)\) is the Hubbell rectangular-source integral, \(0 < a \leq b <\infty\). Numerical values of \(f(a,b)\) are used in radiation physics applications. This function is closely related with Appell's hypergeometric function. The author presents a family of fairly efficient nonlinear approximations \(f(a,b) \approx \Omega_n (a,b)\), \(n = 1,2,\dots,\) that can be used to compute \(f(a,b)\) to a prescribed relative error, by taking \(n\) sufficiently large. The minimum number of significant decimal digits of accuracy attained by a particular approximation \(f(a,b) \approx \Omega_n (a,b)\), over the triangular domain \(0.1 \leq a \leq b \leq 20\), is ascertained from a table provided for the cases \(n = 1(1)4\) and \(6(2)16\).

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