The routine may be called by the names s17aff or nagf_specfun_bessel_j1_real.
3Description
s17aff evaluates an approximation to the Bessel function of the first kind .
Note: , so the approximation need only consider .
The routine is based on three Chebyshev expansions:
For ,
For ,
where ,
and ,
with .
For near zero, . This approximation is used when is sufficiently small for the result to be correct to machine precision.
For very large , it becomes impossible to provide results with any reasonable accuracy (see Section 7), hence the routine fails. Such arguments contain insufficient information to determine the phase of oscillation of ; only the amplitude, , can be determined and this is returned on soft failure. The range for which this occurs is roughly related to machine precision; the routine will fail if
(see the Users' Note for your implementation for details).
Clenshaw C W (1962) Chebyshev Series for Mathematical Functions Mathematical tables HMSO
5Arguments
1: – Real (Kind=nag_wp)Input
On entry: the argument of the function.
2: – IntegerInput/Output
On entry: ifail must be set to , or to set behaviour on detection of an error; these values have no effect when no error is detected.
A value of causes the printing of an error message and program execution will be halted; otherwise program execution continues. A value of means that an error message is printed while a value of means that it is not.
If halting is not appropriate, the value or is recommended. If message printing is undesirable, then the value is recommended. Otherwise, the value is recommended. When the value or is used it is essential to test the value of ifail on exit.
On exit: unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).
6Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry or , explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by x04aaf).
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
On entry, .
Constraint: .
is too large, the function returns the amplitude of the oscillation, .
An unexpected error has been triggered by this routine. Please
contact NAG.
See Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 9 in the Introduction to the NAG Library FL Interface for further information.
7Accuracy
Let be the relative error in the argument and be the absolute error in the result. (Since oscillates about zero, absolute error and not relative error is significant.)
If is somewhat larger than machine precision (e.g., if is due to data errors etc.), then and are approximately related by:
(provided is also within machine bounds). Figure 1 displays the behaviour of the amplification factor .
However, if is of the same order as machine precision, then rounding errors could make slightly larger than the above relation predicts.
For very large , the above relation ceases to apply. In this region, . The amplitude can be calculated with reasonable accuracy for all , but cannot. If is written as where is an integer and , then is determined by only. If , cannot be determined with any accuracy at all. Thus if is greater than, or of the order of, the reciprocal of machine precision, it is impossible to calculate the phase of and the routine must fail.
Figure 1
8Parallelism and Performance
Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
s17aff is not threaded in any implementation.
9Further Comments
None.
10Example
This example reads values of the argument from a file, evaluates the function at each value of and prints the results.