NAG CL Interface
s17afc (bessel_​j1_​real)

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1 Purpose

s17afc returns the value of the Bessel function J1(x).

2 Specification

#include <nag.h>
double  s17afc (double x, NagError *fail)
The function may be called by the names: s17afc, nag_specfun_bessel_j1_real or nag_bessel_j1.

3 Description

s17afc evaluates an approximation to the Bessel function of the first kind J1(x).
Note:  J1(-x)=-J1(x), so the approximation need only consider x0.
The function is based on three Chebyshev expansions:
For 0<x8,
J1(x)=x8r=0arTr(t),   with ​t=2 (x8) 2-1.  
For x>8,
J1(x)=2πx {P1(x)cos(x-3π4)-Q1(x)sin(x-3π4)}  
where P1(x)=r=0brTr(t),
and Q1(x)= 8xr=0crTr(t),
with t=2 ( 8x) 2-1.
For x near zero, J1(x) x2 . This approximation is used when x is sufficiently small for the result to be correct to machine precision.
For very large x, it becomes impossible to provide results with any reasonable accuracy (see Section 7), hence the function fails. Such arguments contain insufficient information to determine the phase of oscillation of J1(x); only the amplitude, 2π|x| , can be determined and this is returned on failure. The range for which this occurs is roughly related to machine precision; the function will fail if |x|1/machine precision (see the Users' Note for your implementation for details).

4 References

NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
Clenshaw C W (1962) Chebyshev Series for Mathematical Functions Mathematical tables HMSO

5 Arguments

1: x double Input
On entry: the argument x of the function.
2: fail NagError * Input/Output
The NAG error argument (see Section 7 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface).

6 Error Indicators and Warnings

NE_ALLOC_FAIL
Dynamic memory allocation failed.
See Section 3.1.2 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_INTERNAL_ERROR
An internal error has occurred in this function. Check the function call and any array sizes. If the call is correct then please contact NAG for assistance.
See Section 7.5 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_NO_LICENCE
Your licence key may have expired or may not have been installed correctly.
See Section 8 in the Introduction to the NAG Library CL Interface for further information.
NE_REAL_ARG_GT
On entry, x=value.
Constraint: |x|value.
|x| is too large, the function returns the amplitude of the J1 oscillation, 2/(π|x|).

7 Accuracy

Let δ be the relative error in the argument and E be the absolute error in the result. (Since J1(x) oscillates about zero, absolute error and not relative error is significant.)
If δ is somewhat larger than machine precision (e.g., if δ is due to data errors etc.), then E and δ are approximately related by:
E|xJ0(x)-J1(x)|δ  
(provided E is also within machine bounds). Figure 1 displays the behaviour of the amplification factor |xJ0(x)-J1(x)|.
However, if δ is of the same order as machine precision, then rounding errors could make E slightly larger than the above relation predicts.
For very large x, the above relation ceases to apply. In this region, J1(x) 2π|x| cos(x- 3π4). The amplitude 2π|x| can be calculated with reasonable accuracy for all x, but cos(x- 3π4) cannot. If x- 3π4 is written as 2Nπ+θ where N is an integer and 0θ<2π, then cos(x- 3π4) is determined by θ only. If xδ-1, θ cannot be determined with any accuracy at all. Thus if x is greater than, or of the order of, the reciprocal of machine precision, it is impossible to calculate the phase of J1(x) and the function must fail.
Figure 1
Figure 1

8 Parallelism and Performance

Background information to multithreading can be found in the Multithreading documentation.
s17afc is not threaded in any implementation.

9 Further Comments

None.

10 Example

This example reads values of the argument x from a file, evaluates the function at each value of x and prints the results.

10.1 Program Text

Program Text (s17afce.c)

10.2 Program Data

Program Data (s17afce.d)

10.3 Program Results

Program Results (s17afce.r)
GnuplotProduced by GNUPLOT 4.6 patchlevel 3 −0.6 −0.4 −0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 −20 −10 0 10 20 J1(x) x Example Program Returned Values for the Bessel Function J1(x) gnuplot_plot_1