Short Note: Fast algorithms for spherical harmonic expansions, III

  • Authors:
  • Mark Tygert

  • Affiliations:
  • Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, United States

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We accelerate the computation of spherical harmonic transforms, using what is known as the butterfly scheme. This provides a convenient alternative to the approach taken in the second paper from this series on ''Fast algorithms for spherical harmonic expansions''. The requisite precomputations become manageable when organized as a ''depth-first traversal'' of the program's control-flow graph, rather than as the perhaps more natural ''breadth-first traversal'' that processes one-by-one each level of the multilevel procedure. We illustrate the results via several numerical examples.