Evaluation of the Elliptic Integrals | ||||
| Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 26, Issue 1-B, June 2015, Page 5-15 PDF (415.02 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/absb.2015.22632 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Sharaf M.A.* 1; Alrawjih F.A.2 | ||||
| 11Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | ||||
| 2Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Dammam, Dammam Saudi Arabia | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present paper is devoted for establishing accurate computational algorithms for the incomplete and complete elliptic integrals (EI) of the first, second and third kind. For these goals, we first derived some properties of EI that could be used to check the validity and the accuracy of the algorithms; in addition, particular continued fraction expansion of the ratio of the complete elliptic integrals of the second and first kinds is also derived. Secondly, we established the trigonometric series expansions of EI, together with the recurrence formulae of their coefficients so as to facilitate the computations. Also, Gautschi's algorithm of the top-down continued fraction evaluation is described. Numerical applications are performed for: (a) the incomplete elliptic integrals using their trigonometric series expansions, (b) the complete elliptic integrals of the second kind from the complete elliptic integrals of the first kind using Gautschi's algorithm. Finally the numerical results were checked by two ways: i- by satisfying the conditions given by properties of EI. ii- by comparing their values with those list in slandered tables. In this respect, the numerical results show excellent arguments with these ways, a fact which proves the validity, accuracy and the effeteness of our algorithms | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| recursive computations algorithms; continued fraction; trigonometric series expansions | ||||
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