Figure 3
(a) Error difference in evaluating
h2(1)Y42 using (i) the standard product of the radial Hankel function
h2(1) and spherical harmonic
Y42 and (ii) the translational addition theorem (14), (15) at a distance (in normalized radii) from the origin with expansion order . The circle represents spheres of radius 1. Colour axis in log scale. (b) Continuity error at the sphere boundaries [i.e. difference between the solution computed at the boundary using equations (4) and (5), integrated over the sphere boundary]. For this example,
N = 4 and
kamax = 4. The error reaches machine accuracy at expansion order . |