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On the evaluation of the generalised Voigt functions

Authors :
Soubhadra Sen
N. Mohankumar
Source :
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer. 224:139-146
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2019.

Abstract

For the ordinary and the generalised Voigt functions, we indicate an accurate and efficient sinc function based numerical integration method. This involves a trapezoidal integration with residue correction for the poles of the integrand. We provide a rough saddle point estimate of the discretisation error. We also indicate how to reduce the numerical oscillations by symmetrising the quadrature nodes around the real part of the singularity. By a suitable step size choice, a minimum of 14 digit accuracy (with respect to published reference values) is guaranteed for the generalised Voigt function evaluation for all values of the dependent parameters.

Details

ISSN :
00224073
Volume :
224
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........0b08d0b7d355e212f71fbd52670e7c32