NAG Library Routine Document

S21BFF

▸▿ Contents

1 Purpose

2 Specification

3 Description

4 References

5 Parameters

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

S21BFF returns a value of the classical (Legendre) form of the incomplete elliptic integral of the second kind, via the function name.

2 Specification

FUNCTION S21BFF (

PHI, DM, IFAIL)

REAL (KIND=nag_wp) S21BFF

INTEGER	IFAIL
REAL (KIND=nag_wp)	PHI, DM

3 Description

S21BFF calculates an approximation to the integral

E (ϕ ∣ m) = \int_{0}^{ϕ} {(1 - m \sin^{2} θ)}^{\frac{1}{2}} d θ,

where

0 \leq ϕ \leq \frac{π}{2}

and

m \sin^{2} ϕ \leq 1

The integral is computed using the symmetrised elliptic integrals of Carlson (Carlson (1979) and Carlson (1988)). The relevant identity is

E (ϕ ∣ m) = \sin ϕ R_{F} (q, r, 1) - \frac{1}{3} m \sin^{3} ϕ R_{D} (q, r, 1),

where

q = \cos^{2} ϕ

r = 1 - m \sin^{2} ϕ

R_{F}

is the Carlson symmetrised incomplete elliptic integral of the first kind (see S21BBF) and

R_{D}

is the Carlson symmetrised incomplete elliptic integral of the second kind (see S21BCF).

4 References

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

Carlson B C (1979) Computing elliptic integrals by duplication Numerische Mathematik 33 1–16

Carlson B C (1988) A table of elliptic integrals of the third kind Math. Comput. 51 267–280

5 Parameters

1: $PHI$ – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Input

2: $DM$ – REAL (KIND=nag_wp)Input

On entry: the arguments

ϕ

and

m

of the function.

Constraints:

$0.0 \leq PHI \leq \frac{π}{2}$ ;
$DM \times \sin^{2} (PHI) \leq 1.0$ .

3: $IFAIL$ – INTEGERInput/Output

On entry: IFAIL must be set to

0

- 1 ​ or ​ 1

. If you are unfamiliar with this parameter you should refer to Section 3.3 in the Essential Introduction for details.

For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value

- 1 ​ or ​ 1

is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value

1

is recommended. Otherwise, if you are not familiar with this parameter, the recommended value is

0

. When the value $- 1 or 1$ is used it is essential to test the value of IFAIL on exit.

On exit:

IFAIL = 0

unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

If on entry

IFAIL = 0

- 1

, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by X04AAF).

Errors or warnings detected by the routine:

$IFAIL = 1$: On entry, $PHI = 〈value〉$ .
Constraint: $0 \leq PHI \leq \frac{π}{2}$ .

$IFAIL = 2$: On entry, $PHI = 〈value〉$ and $DM = 〈value〉$ ; the integral is undefined.
Constraint: $DM \times \sin^{2} (PHI) \leq 1.0$ .

$IFAIL = - 99$: An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please contact NAG.
See Section 3.8 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

$IFAIL = - 399$: Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 3.7 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

$IFAIL = - 999$: Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.6 in the Essential Introduction for further information.

7 Accuracy

In principle S21BFF is capable of producing full machine precision. However round-off errors in internal arithmetic will result in slight loss of accuracy. This loss should never be excessive as the algorithm does not involve any significant amplification of round-off error. It is reasonable to assume that the result is accurate to within a small multiple of the machine precision.

8 Parallelism and Performance

Not applicable.

9 Further Comments

You should consult the S Chapter Introduction, which shows the relationship between this routine and the Carlson definitions of the elliptic integrals. In particular, the relationship between the argument-constraints for both forms becomes clear.

For more information on the algorithms used to compute

R_{F}

and

R_{D}

, see the routine documents for S21BBF and S21BCF, respectively.

If you wish to input a value of PHI outside the range allowed by this routine you should refer to Section 17.4 of Abramowitz and Stegun (1972) for useful identities. For example,