A spherical harmonic analysis is made of the hydrodynamic equation governing the flow of an incompressible liquid in a rotating sphere in the presence of the magnetic Lorentz force. Nonlinear partial differential equations are derived for the functions S(n)(r,t) and T(n)(r,t) entering the spherical harmonic representation of the velocity field.

A finite subset Y on the unit sphere Sn−1 ⊆ Rn is called a spherical design of harmonic index t, if the following condition is satisfied: ∑ x∈Y f(x) = 0 for all real homogeneous harmonic polynomials f(x1, . . . , xn) of degree t. Also, for a subset T of N = {1, 2, · · · }, a finite subset Y ⊆ Sn−1 is called a spherical design of harmonic index T, if ∑ x∈Y f(x) = 0 is satisfied for all real homo...

This paper describes an approach of representing 3D shape by using a set of invariant Spherical Harmonic (SH) coefficients after conformal mapping. Specifically, a genus-zero 3D mesh object is first conformally mapped onto the unit sphere by using a modified discrete conformal mapping, where the modification is based on Möbius Factorization and is aimed at obtaining a canonical conformal mappin...

Vector spherical harmonic analyses have been used successfully to solve laminar and mean-field magnetohydrodynamic dynamo problems with interactions, such as the laminar induction term, anisotropic alpha-effects and anisotropic diffusion, which are difficult to analyse spectrally in spherical geometries. Spectral forms of the non-linear rotating Boussinesq and anelastic momentum, magnetic field...

A new family of wavelets is introduced, which is associated with Legendre polynomials. These wavelets, termed spherical harmonic or Legendre wavelets, possess compact support. The method for the wavelet construction is derived from the association of ordinary second order differential equations with multiresolution filters. The low-pass filter associated to Legendre multiresolution analysis is ...