NAG Library Function Document

nag_kelvin_ber_vector (s19anc)

+− Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Arguments

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

7 Accuracy

8 Parallelism and Performance

9 Further Comments

+− 10 Example

10.1 Program Text

10.2 Program Data

10.3 Program Results

1 Purpose

nag_kelvin_ber_vector (s19anc) returns an array of values for the Kelvin function

ber x

2 Specification

#include <nag.h>

#include <nags.h>

void	nag_kelvin_ber_vector (Integer n, const double x[], double f[], Integer ivalid[], NagError *fail)

3 Description

nag_kelvin_ber_vector (s19anc) evaluates an approximation to the Kelvin function

ber x_{i}

for an array of arguments

x_{i}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

Note:

ber (- x) = ber x

, so the approximation need only consider

x \geq 0.0

The function is based on several Chebyshev expansions:

For

0 \leq x \leq 5

ber x = \underset{r = 0}{\sum^{'}} a_{r} T_{r} (t),   with ​ t = 2 {(\frac{x}{5})}^{4} - 1 .

For

x > 5

\begin{array}{l} ber x = & \frac{e^{x / \sqrt{2}}}{\sqrt{2 π x}} [(1 + \frac{1}{x} a (t)) \cos α + \frac{1}{x} b (t) \sin α] \\ + \frac{e^{- x / \sqrt{2}}}{\sqrt{2 π x}} [(1 + \frac{1}{x} c (t)) \sin β + \frac{1}{x} d (t) \cos β], \end{array}

where

α = \frac{x}{\sqrt{2}} - \frac{π}{8}

β = \frac{x}{\sqrt{2}} + \frac{π}{8}

and

a (t)

b (t)

c (t)

, and

d (t)

are expansions in the variable

t = \frac{10}{x} - 1

When

x

is sufficiently close to zero, the result is set directly to

ber 0 = 1.0

For large

x

, there is a danger of the result being totally inaccurate, as the error amplification factor grows in an essentially exponential manner; therefore the function must fail.

4 References

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

5 Arguments

1: n – IntegerInput

On entry:

n

, the number of points.

Constraint:

n \geq 0

2: x[n] – const doubleInput

On entry: the argument

x_{i}

of the function, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

3: f[n] – doubleOutput

On exit:

ber x_{i}

, the function values.

4: ivalid[n] – IntegerOutput

On exit:

ivalid [i - 1]

contains the error code for

x_{i}

, for

i = 1, 2, \dots, n

$ivalid [i - 1] = 0$: No error.
$ivalid [i - 1] = 1$: $abs (x_{i})$ is too large for an accurate result to be returned. $f [i - 1]$ contains zero. The threshold value is the same as for $fail . code =$ NE_REAL_ARG_GT in nag_kelvin_ber (s19aac), as defined in the Users' Note for your implementation.

5: fail – NagError *Input/Output

The NAG error argument (see Section 3.6 in the Essential Introduction).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_BAD_PARAM: On entry, argument $⟨value⟩$ had an illegal value.
NE_INT: On entry, $n = ⟨value⟩$ .
Constraint: $n \geq 0$ .
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR: An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
NW_IVALID: On entry, at least one value of x was invalid.
Check ivalid for more information.

7 Accuracy

Since the function is oscillatory, the absolute error rather than the relative error is important. Let

E

be the absolute error in the result and

δ

be the relative error in the argument. If

δ

is somewhat larger than the machine precision, then we have:

E ≃ |\frac{x}{\sqrt{2}} ({ber}_{1} x + {bei}_{1} x)| δ

(provided

E

is within machine bounds).

For small

x

the error amplification is insignificant and thus the absolute error is effectively bounded by the machine precision.

For medium and large

x

, the error behaviour is oscillatory and its amplitude grows like

\sqrt{\frac{x}{2 π}} e^{x / \sqrt{2}}

. Therefore it is not possible to calculate the function with any accuracy when

\sqrt{x} e^{x / \sqrt{2}} > \frac{\sqrt{2 π}}{δ}

. Note that this value of

x

is much smaller than the minimum value of

x

for which the function overflows.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Not applicable.

9 Further Comments

None.

10 Example

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

x_{i}

and prints the results.

NAG Library Function Documentnag_kelvin_ber_vector (s19anc)