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NAG Toolbox: nag_specfun_fresnel_s_vector (s20aq)

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Syntax

3 Description

4 References

▸▿ 5 Parameters

5.1 Compulsory Input Parameters

5.2 Optional Input Parameters

5.3 Output Parameters

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Further Comments

9 Example

Purpose

nag_specfun_fresnel_s_vector (s20aq) returns an array of values for the Fresnel integral

S (x)

Syntax

[f, ifail] = s20aq(x, 'n', n)

[f, ifail] = nag_specfun_fresnel_s_vector(x, 'n', n)

Description

nag_specfun_fresnel_s_vector (s20aq) evaluates an approximation to the Fresnel integral

S (x_{i}) = \int_{0}^{x_{i}} \sin (\frac{π}{2} t^{2}) d t

for an array of arguments

x_{i}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

Note:

S (x) = - S (- x)

, so the approximation need only consider

x \geq 0.0

The function is based on three Chebyshev expansions:

For

0 < x \leq 3

S (x) = x^{3} \underset{r = 0}{\sum^{'}} a_{r} T_{r} (t),   with ​ t = 2 {(\frac{x}{3})}^{4} - 1 .

For

x > 3

S (x) = \frac{1}{2} - \frac{f (x)}{x} \cos (\frac{π}{2} x^{2}) - \frac{g (x)}{x^{3}} \sin (\frac{π}{2} x^{2}),

where

f (x) = \underset{r = 0}{\sum^{'}} b_{r} T_{r} (t)

and

g (x) = \underset{r = 0}{\sum^{'}} c_{r} T_{r} (t)

with

t = 2 {(\frac{3}{x})}^{4} - 1

For small

x

S (x) ≃ \frac{π}{6} x^{3}

. This approximation is used when

x

is sufficiently small for the result to be correct to machine precision. For very small

x

, this approximation would underflow; the result is then set exactly to zero.

For large

x

f (x) ≃ \frac{1}{π}

and

g (x) ≃ \frac{1}{π^{2}}

. Therefore for moderately large

x

, when

\frac{1}{π^{2} x^{3}}

is negligible compared with

\frac{1}{2}

, the second term in the approximation for

x > 3

may be dropped. For very large

x

, when

\frac{1}{π x}

becomes negligible,

S (x) ≃ \frac{1}{2}

. However there will be considerable difficulties in calculating

\cos (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})

accurately before this final limiting value can be used. Since

\cos (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})

is periodic, its value is essentially determined by the fractional part of

x^{2}

. If

x^{2} = N + θ

where

N

is an integer and

0 \leq θ < 1

, then

\cos (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})

depends on

θ

and on

N

modulo

4

. By exploiting this fact, it is possible to retain significance in the calculation of

\cos (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})

either all the way to the very large

x

limit, or at least until the integer part of

\frac{x}{2}

is equal to the maximum integer allowed on the machine.

References

Abramowitz M and Stegun I A (1972) Handbook of Mathematical Functions (3rd Edition) Dover Publications

Parameters

Compulsory Input Parameters

1: $x (n)$ – double array: The argument $x_{i}$ of the function, for $i = 1, 2, \dots, n$ .

Optional Input Parameters

1: $n$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: Default: the dimension of the array x.
$n$ , the number of points.

Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .

Output Parameters

1: $f (n)$ – double array: $S (x_{i})$ , the function values.
2: $ifail$ – int64int32nag_int scalar: $ifail = 0$ unless the function detects an error (see Error Indicators and Warnings).

Error Indicators and Warnings

Errors or warnings detected by the function:

Cases prefixed with W are classified as warnings and do not generate an error of type NAG:error_n. See nag_issue_warnings.

W $ifail = 1$: Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .

$ifail = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.

$ifail = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.

$ifail = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.

Accuracy

Let

δ

and

ε

be the relative errors in the argument and result respectively.

δ

is somewhat larger than the machine precision (i.e., if

δ

is due to data errors etc.), then

ε

and

δ

are approximately related by:

ε ≃ |\frac{x \sin (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})}{S (x)}| δ .

Figure 1 shows the behaviour of the error amplification factor

|\frac{x \sin (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})}{S (x)}|

However if

δ

is of the same order as the machine precision, then rounding errors could make

ε

slightly larger than the above relation predicts.

For small

x

ε ≃ 3 δ

and hence there is only moderate amplification of relative error. Of course for very small

x

where the correct result would underflow and exact zero is returned, relative error-control is lost.

For moderately large values of

x

ε ≃ |2 x \sin (\frac{π}{2} x^{2})| δ

and the result will be subject to increasingly large amplification of errors. However the above relation breaks down for large values of

x

(i.e., when

\frac{1}{x^{2}}

is of the order of the machine precision); in this region the relative error in the result is essentially bounded by

\frac{2}{π x}

Hence the effects of error amplification are limited and at worst the relative error loss should not exceed half the possible number of significant figures.

Figure 1

Further Comments

None.

Example

This example reads values of x from a file, evaluates the function at each value of

x_{i}

and prints the results.

Open in the MATLAB editor: s20aq_example

function s20aq_example


fprintf('s20aq example results\n\n');

x = [0; 0.5; 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 8; 10; -1; 1000];

[f, ifail] = s20aq(x);

fprintf('     x           S(x)\n');
for i=1:numel(x)
  fprintf('%12.3e%12.3e\n', x(i), f(i));
end

s20aq example results

     x           S(x)
   0.000e+00   0.000e+00
   5.000e-01   6.473e-02
   1.000e+00   4.383e-01
   2.000e+00   3.434e-01
   4.000e+00   4.205e-01
   5.000e+00   4.992e-01
   6.000e+00   4.470e-01
   8.000e+00   4.602e-01
   1.000e+01   4.682e-01
  -1.000e+00  -4.383e-01
   1.000e+03   4.997e-01

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