Basis Properties of Traces and Normal Derivatives of Spherical-Separable Solutions of the Helmholtz Equation
| Author(s) | Dallas, A.G. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2005-02-18T17:41:50Z | |
| Date Available | 2005-02-18T17:41:50Z | |
| Publication Date | 2000 | |
| Abstract | The classical solutions of the Heimholtz equation resulting from the separation-of-variables procedure in spherical coördinates are frequently used in one way or another to approximate other solutions. In particular, traces and/or normal derivatives of certain sequences of these spherical-separable solutions are commonly used as trial-and-test-functions in Galerkin procedures for the approximate solution of boundary-operator problems arising from the reformulation of exterior or interior boundary-value problems and set on the boundary Γ of the domain where a solution is wanted. While the completeness properties of these traces and normal derivatives in the usual Hilbert space L2( Γ) are well known, their basis properties are not. We show that such sequences of traces or normal derivatives of the outgoing spherical-separable solutions form bases for L2( Γ) only when Γ is a sphere centered at the pole of the spherical solutions; corresponding results are given for the entire solutions, accounting for the possibility of an interior eigenvalue. We identify other Hilbert spaces, connected with the far-field pattern, for which these functions do provide bases. We apply the results to discuss some aspects of the Waterman schemes for approximate solutions of scattering problems (the so-called “T-matrix method”), including the previous article of KRISTENSSON, RAMM, and STRÖM (J. Math. Phys.24 (1983), 2619-2631) on the convergence of such methods. | en |
| Sponsor | This work was partially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Materiel Command, USAF, under Grant F49620-96-1-0039. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the author and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsemnets, either expressed or implied, of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research or the U.S. Government. | en |
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| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/360 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Department of Mathematical Sciences | en |
| Part of Series | Technical Report: 2000-06 | |
| Title | Basis Properties of Traces and Normal Derivatives of Spherical-Separable Solutions of the Helmholtz Equation | en |
| Type | Technical Report | en |