EFE Algorithms

README (circa July 2016)

7 July 2016

jRoot5.for --- When Christodoulou et al. (1995, paper I) generated
Figure 3, they picked a value of the total angular momentum that
corresponded to a Maclaurin spheroid with eccentricity, e = 0.85.

When I made a movie of the free-energy surface that corresponds to
15 (or so) different values of the angular momentum, I decided to
adopt values that correspond to Maclaurin spheroids having various
values of "e", in steps of 0.005, ending with e = 0.85.

Then I decided that I also wanted to use force-balance techniques
to tell me precisely what (b/a,c/a) pairs correspond to each of
these angular momentum values; but this is not straightforward because,
if you are specifying "L", then the pair of axis ratios can only
be determined by simultaneously satisfying two nontrivial equations.

The "jRoot5.for" routine uses a pair of nested Newton-Raphson
loops to identify these axis ratios simultaneously.  It begins by
specifying 28 different values of "e" (for Maclaurin spheroids),
calculating the corresponding "L", then finding the simultaneous
roots to obtain (b/a,c/a)_Jacobi with this value of "L".

The resulting table of raw numbers can be found at the bottom of:
http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/User:Tohline/ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/EFE_Energies#Conserve_Only_L


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6 July 2016

In the file, deriv5.for --- built from old3/deriv3.for --- we
have modified subroutine "fJ" to include as well a determination
of "fL" and its derivative wrt bovera, namely, "derivL".
Definitions of "fL" and "derivL" can be found:
http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/User:Tohline/ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/JacobiEllipsoids#Angular_Momentum_Constraint

The main routine in this file loops through 20+ axis-ratio pairs
and calculates fJ, deriv, fL, & derivL for all pairs.  Then,
for one pairing (only) it computes the numerical derivative of
fL and compares it with the analytic value "derivL".

Now, let's plug this generalized subroutine into the "root"
routine that uses Newton Raphson technique.

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4 July 2016

jRoot3.for (see jRoot2.for, below) not only lists pairs of axis
ratios, but also other useful corresponding quantities such as:
A1, A2, A3, omega2, and 5L/M.


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28 June 2016

Circulation7.for -- This generates excellent match to Fig.3
of Christodoulou et al. (1995, paper I).  The initial output,
"outCirc16.vtr" can be read into VisTrails tool.


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27 June (evening) 2016
Circulation3.for --- This fortran program produces an (b/a,c/a)
array of Free-Energy values, then, after normalization, writes
both a "cell" and "point" array out in XML format such that it
is readable from VisTrails.

It needs to be linked only to the doubleELib.o library.


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27 June 2016

File "jRoot2.for" calculates pairs of axis ratios that define
the Jacobi ellipsoid equilibrium sequence.

gfortran -o exroot jRoot2.o doubleELib.o

PROGRAM testnewt:  Loops through a group of 'c/a' axis ratios,
and for each one, relies upon FUNCTION rtnewt to return the
"root", which here is the matching value of 'b/a'.  In turn,
the function, rtnewt, calls the SUBROUTINE fJ, which provides
"rtnewt" with the definition of the governing relation for
Jacobi ellipsoids, as well as the analytic definition of the
first derivative of this function, with respect to 'b/a'.

The definitions of fJ and d(fJ)/dx are provided:
http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/User:Tohline/ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/JacobiEllipsoids#Roots_of_the_Governing_Relation

FUNCTION rtnewt originated as a function drawn from the
Numerical Recipes collection of f77-formatted root-finding
algorithms; it uses the Newton-Raphson technique.  I modified
the original rtnewt in order to perform double-precision arithmetic.

The arguments of FUNCTION rtnewt are ...
-- covera = c/a;
-- x1 and x2 define the bracketed region of b/a within which
   the root should be found (if not, a message is written);
-- xacc = desired precision of root = b/a


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25 June 2016

Chandrasekhar provides two relations that define the equilibrium
properties of Jacobi ellipsoids.  One defines the relationship between
the pair of axis ratios (b/a,c/a); the other provides an expression
for the corresponding rotation frequency (squared), Omega2.

Our desire, here, is to develop a tool -- probably Newton-Raphson
technique -- that finds the root(s) of the first of these expressions.
Such an iteration technique will require evaluation of the function
as well as evaluation of its first derivative.

So far, we have developed and debugged a subroutine (fJ) that evaluates
the analytic expression for fJ; it also evaluates the first derivative
of, fJprime, with respect to (b/a) while holding (c/a) fixed.

DOUBLE PRECISION ROUTINES:
File fJ.for contains the subroutine (fJ) that evaluates the function
and its derivative. In addition, jacobi7.for is a main program that
calls this subroutine for 25 different axis-ratio pairs that define
the Jacobi sequence (according to EFE); Subroutine fJ is included
as part of this jacobi7.for file.

gfortran -c jacobi7.for -ffree-form
gfortran -o exec jacobi7.o doubleELib.o
./exec > output

For supplementary information:
http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/User:Tohline/ThreeDimensionalConfigurations/JacobiEllipsoids#Roots_of_the_Governing_Relation
Circulation8 (circa 9 July 2016)

Related to our discussion of Free-Energy Surfaces of the c/a versus b/a "EFE Diagram."
User:Tohline/Appendix/ComputerAlgorithms/EFE

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EFE Algorithms

README (circa July 2016)

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jRoot (circa 7 July 2016)

deriv (circa 6 July 2016)

fJ_routine (circa 6 July 2016)

ellipsoids (circa 27 June 2016)

XMLwriter (circa 27 June 2016)

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