TY  - THES
A1  - Schwarz, Christian
T1  - Computation of Confluent Hypergeometric Functions and Application to Parabolic Boundary Control Problems
T1  - Berechnung konfluenter hypergeometrischer Funktionen und Anwendung auf parabolische Randkontrollprobleme
N2  - In this thesis we focus on the development and investigation of methods for the computation of confluent hypergeometric functions. We point out the relations between these functions and parabolic boundary value problems and demonstrate applications to models of heat transfer and fluid dynamics. For the computation of confluent hypergeometric functions on compact (real or complex) intervals we consider a series expansion based on the Hadamard product of power series. It turnes out that the partial sums of this expansion are easily computable and provide a better rate of convergence in comparison to the partial sums of the Taylor series. Regarding the computational accuracy the problem of cancellation errors is reduced considerably. Another important tool for the computation of confluent hypergeometric functions are recurrence formulae. Although easy to implement, such recurrence relations are numerically unstable e.g. due to rounding errors. In order to circumvent these problems a method for computing recurrence relations in backward direction is applied. Furthermore, asymptotic expansions for large arguments in modulus are considered. From the numerical point of view the determination of the number of terms used for the approximation is a crucial point. As an application we consider initial-boundary value problems with partial differential equations of parabolic type, where we use the method of eigenfunction expansion in order to determine an explicit form of the solution. In this case the arising eigenfunctions depend directly on the geometry of the considered domain. For certain domains with some special geometry the eigenfunctions are of confluent hypergeometric type. Both a conductive heat transfer model and an application in fluid dynamics is considered. Finally, the application of several heat transfer models to certain sterilization processes in food industry is discussed.
KW  - Konfluente hypergeometrische Funktion
KW  - Approximation
KW  - Numerisches Verfahren
KW  - confluent hypergeometric function
KW  - series expansion
KW  - Hadamard product
KW  - eigenfunction expansion
Y1  - 2001
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/103
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-2237
ER  -