THE APPLICATION OF FINITE FORWARD DIFFERENCES IN THE RESISTIVITY COMPUTATIONS OVER A LAYERED EARTH

Geophysics ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misac N. Nabighian

The paper describes a new method of computing the infinite series which arise in the calculation of standard graphs in the resistivity method. It is shown that, by using finite forward differences of higher orders and repeated summations by parts, the convergence of the potential and resistivity series can be improved appreciably. The procedure allows calculations with any degree of accuracy and with a substantial savings in computational labor. A correct estimate of the truncation errors involved may easily be determined.

1791 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 295-316
Keyword(s):  

The summation of infinite series is a subject, not only of curious speculation, but also of the greatest importance in the various branches of mathematics and philosophy; in consequence of which it has always claimed a very considerable share of attention from the most celebrated mathematicians.


1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (01) ◽  
pp. 88-90
Author(s):  
David S. Tselnik

A number of plane inviscid jet flow problems of interest in hydrodynamics require the use of elliptic functions theory. Generally speaking, finding the general solution to a problem in terms of elliptic functions is not a complicated task. However, finding solutions as rapidly convergent infinite series or as sound asymptotic formulas is often not as easy, and special ways of treatment may prove to be necessary. In parallel with solving the problem of peripheral jets, the author's earlier paper (1985) proposed some such ways of treatment. In the present paper, a new method of treatment is proposed (and used);this approach may be of help in studies where the methods of elliptic functions theory have to be used.


1936 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 676-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Westwater

ABSTRACTRecent reports contain tables of a parameter K required in calculating the performance of an airscrew by a new method.The method of calculating K (due to Goldstein) is unsuitable for large values of the pitch especially near the tip of the airscrew.In the case of infinite pitch we fall back, for a two-bladed airscrew, on the problem of a rotating lamina in two dimensions.The solution for a cross lamina (corresponding to a four-bladed propeller) is given below and the tables of K for four blades are completed.A formula for the limit of K/Kp at the airscrew tip is given for a propeller with any number of blades, where Kp is an approximate value of K due to Prandtl.K for any number of blades is given in the form of an infinite series. The case of three blades is discussed in detail.


1782 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 389-416

Sir, Having lately discovered some very easy methods of investigating the sums of certain infinite series, I have taken the liberty of requesting the favour of you to present them to the Royal Society. I have divided the subject into three parts: the first contains a new and general method of finding the sum of those series which De Moivre has found in one or two particular cases; but whose method, although it be in appearance general, will, upon trial, be found to be absolutely impracticable. The second contains the summation of certain series, the last differences of whose numerators become equal to nothing. The third contains observations on a correction which is necessary in investigating the sums of certain series by collecting two terms into one, with its application to a variety of cases.


1967 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babban Prasad Mishra

Introduction. In a recent paper, Borwein(1) constructed a new method of summability which would read: Letand let {sn} be any sequence of numbers. If, for λ > − 1,is convergent for all x in the open interval (0,1) and tends to a finite limit s as x → 1 in (0,1), we say that the sequence {sn} is Aλ convergent to s and write sn → s(Aλ). The A0 method is the ordinary Abel method.


1805 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-293
Author(s):  
William Wallace

In calculating the effect of the mutual action of two planets upon each other, it has been found necessary to develop the algebraic formula (a2 + b2 — 2ab cos φ)n into a series of this form, A + B cos φ + C cos 2φ + D cos 3φ + &c. Here a and b denote the distances of the planets from the sun; φ denotes the angle of commutation; and the values of n, more immediately the subject of consideration, are —, and —.The determination of the coefficients A, B, C, &c. in these cases, appears to have been considered as a matter of difficulty by the mathematicians who first applied to the solution of the problem; for they found, that although it was only necessary to compute the first two coefficients A and B, the rest being easily derived from them, yet it did not appear that they could be expressed in finite terms, nor even by means of circular arches, or by logarithms. Recourse was therefore had to other methods, and chiefly to the method of infinite series; but as the series which most readily occurred to them, converged in some cases so slowly as to be in a manner useless, no small degree of analytical address has been found necessary, either to render it more convergent, or to find the sum of a competent number of its terms, with a moderate degree of labour.


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