Efficient Evaluation of Ellipsoidal Harmonics for Potential Modeling

arXiv1708.06028MaRDI QIDQ6290299FDOQ6290299

Authors: Thomas S. Klotz, Jaydeep P. Bardhan, Matthew G. Knepley 

Publication date: 20 August 2017

Abstract: Ellipsoidal harmonics are a useful generalization of spherical harmonics but present additional numerical challenges. One such challenge is in computing ellipsoidal normalization constants which require approximating a singular integral. In this paper, we present results for approximating normalization constants using a well-known decomposition and applying tanh-sinh quadrature to the resulting integrals. Tanh-sinh has been shown to be an effective quadrature scheme for a certain subset of singular integrands. To support our numerical results, we prove that the decomposed integrands lie in the space of functions where tanh-sinh is optimal and compare our results to a variety of similar change-of-variable quadratures.

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