Ellipsoidal harmonics : theory and applications / George Dassios, University of Patras, Greece.
"The sphere is what might be called a perfect shape. Unfortunately nature is imperfect and many bodies are better represented by an ellipsoid. The theory of ellipsoidal harmonics, originated in the nineteenth century, could only be seriously applied with the kind of computational power available in...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ;
v. 146. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Prologue; 1. The ellipsoidal system and its geometry; 2. Differential operators in ellipsoidal geometry; 3. Lamé functions; 4. Ellipsoidal harmonics; 5. The theory of Niven and Cartesian harmonics; 6. Integration techniques; 7. Boundary value problems in ellipsoidal geometry; 8. Connection between sphero-conal and ellipsoidal harmonics; 9. The elliptic functions approach; 10. Ellipsoidal bi-harmonic functions; 11. Vector ellipsoidal harmonics; 12. Applications to geometry; 13. Applications to physics; 14. Applications to low-frequency scattering theory; 15. Applications to bioscience; 16. Applications to inverse problems; Epilogue; Appendix A. Background material; Appendix B. Elements of dyadic analysis; Appendix C. Legendre functions and spherical harmonics; Appendix D. The fundamental polyadic integral; Appendix E. Forms of the Lamé equation; Appendix F. Table of formulae; Appendix G. Miscellaneous relations; Bibliography; Index.