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High-frequency approximations to ellipsoidal wave functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

F. M. Arscott  and
B. D. Sleeman
F. M. Arscott
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey.
B. D. Sleeman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee, Dundee.
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When the Helmholz equation

is separated in ellipsoidal coordinates [1; §1.6] and the technique of separation of variables applied, there results the ordinary differential equation

known as the ellipsoidal wave equation or Lamé wave equation. In this equation k is the modulus of the Jacobian elliptic function sn z, and is related to the eccentricity of the fundamental ellipse of the ellipsoidal coordinates; a, b are separation constants, and the parameter q is connected with the wave number χ by

l being a real constant, the dimensional parameter of the coordinate system.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , June 1970 , pp. 39 - 46
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Copyright © University College London 1970

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