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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Discrete and Continuous Models and Applied Computational Science</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2658-4670</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2658-7149</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">26869</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2658-4670-2021-29-2-146-157</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Calculation of special functions arising in the problem of diffraction by a dielectric ball</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>О вычислении специальных функций, возникающих при исследовании задачи дифракции на диэлектрическом шаре</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8823-9136</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Malyshev</surname><given-names>Ksaverii Yu.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Малышев</surname><given-names>К. Ю.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>engineer, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics</p></bio><email>kmalyshev08102@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics Lomonosov Moscow State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Научно-исследовательский институт ядерной физики имени Д. В. Скобельцына Московский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2021-06-28" publication-format="electronic"><day>28</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 29, NO2 (2021)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 29, №2 (2021)</issue-title><fpage>146</fpage><lpage>157</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2021-06-28"><day>28</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2021, Malyshev K.Y.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2021, Малышев К.Ю.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2021</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Malyshev K.Y.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Малышев К.Ю.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/miph/article/view/26869">https://journals.rudn.ru/miph/article/view/26869</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">To apply the incomplete Galerkin method to the problem of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by lenses, it is necessary to study the differential equations for the field amplitudes. These equations belong to the class of linear ordinary differential equations with Fuchsian singularities and, in the case of the Lüneburg lens, are integrated in special functions of mathematical physics, namely, the Whittaker and Heun functions. The Maple computer algebra system has tools for working with Whittaker and Heun functions, but in some cases this system gives very large values for these functions, and their plots contain various kinds of artifacts. Therefore, the results of calculations in the Maple’11 and Maple’2019 systems of special functions related to the problem of scattering by a Lüneburg lens need additional verification. For this purpose, an algorithm for finding solutions to linear ordinary differential equations with Fuchsian singular points by the method of Frobenius series was implemented, designed as a software package Fucsh for Sage. The problem of scattering by a Lüneburg lens is used as a test case. The calculation results are compared with similar results obtained in different versions of CAS Maple. Fuchs for Sage allows computing solutions to other linear differential equations that cannot be expressed in terms of known special functions.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Для применения неполного метода Галёркина к задаче о рассеянии электромагнитных волн на линзах необходимо исследовать дифференциальные уравнения для амплитуд полей. Эти уравнения принадлежат к классу линейных обыкновенных дифференциальных уравнений с фуксовыми особенностями и, в случае линзы Люнеберга, интегрируются в специальных функциях математической физики - функциях Уиттекера и Гойна. В системе компьютерной алгебры Maple имеются инструменты для работы с функциями Уиттекера и Гойна, однако в ряде случаев эта система выдаёт очень большие значения для этих функций, а их графики содержат разного рода артефакты. Поэтому результаты вычислений в системах Maple’11 и Maple’2019 специальных функций, связанных с задачей рассеяния на линзе Люнеберга, нуждаются в дополнительной проверке. С этой целью был реализован алгоритм нахождения решений линейных обыкновенных дифференциальных уравнений с фуксовыми особыми точками методом рядов Фробениуса, оформленный в виде пакета программ Fuchs for Sage. Задача рассеяния на линзе Люнеберга используется в качестве тестового примера. Результаты расчётов сопоставляются с аналогичными результатами работы в CAS Maple разных версий. Пакет Fucsh for Sage позволяет вычислять решения и других линейных дифференциальных уравнений, решения которых не выражаются через известные специальные функции.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>linear differential equations</kwd><kwd>Whittaker functions</kwd><kwd>Heun functions</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>линейные дифференциальные уравнения</kwd><kwd>функции Уиттекера</kwd><kwd>функции Гойна</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>A. G. Sveshnikov and I. E. Mogilevsky, Matematicheskiye zadachi teorii difraktsii [Mathematical problems of the theory of diffraction]. Moscow: MSU, 2010, In Russian.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>G. Mie, “Beiträge zur Optik trüber Medien, speziell kolloidaler Metallösungen,” Annalen der Physik, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 377-445, 1908. 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