Title of article
Spherical harmonics in a non-polar co-ordinate system and application to Fourier series in 2-sphere
Author/Authors
Nasir، H. M. نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
Pages
-1842
From page
1843
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0
Abstract
A new non-polar spherical co-ordinate system for the three-dimensional space is introduced. The co-ordinate system is composed of six local co-ordinate systems mapped from six faces of a cube on to the 2-sphere. Weakly orthogonal and orthogonal spherical harmonics are constructed in this co-ordinate system. The spherical harmonics are easily computable functions consisting of polynomials and square root of polynomials. Examples of finite Fourier series computations are given in terms of the new spherical harmonics to demonstrate their immediate applicability.
Keywords
curvilinear co-ordinate systems , Laplace-Beltrami operator , spherical harmonics , Fourier series on 2-sphere
Journal title
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES
Serial Year
2007
Journal title
MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES
Record number
48708
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