Package org.hipparchus.geometry.euclidean.threed

Class SphericalCoordinates

java.lang.Object

org.hipparchus.geometry.euclidean.threed.SphericalCoordinates

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Serializable

public class SphericalCoordinates
extends Object
implements Serializable

This class provides conversions related to spherical coordinates.

The conventions used here are the mathematical ones, i.e. spherical coordinates are related to Cartesian coordinates as follows:

• x = r cos(θ) sin(Φ)
• y = r sin(θ) sin(Φ)
• z = r cos(Φ)

• r = √(x²+y²+z²)
• θ = atan2(y, x)
• Φ = acos(z/r)

r is the radius, θ is the azimuthal angle in the x-y plane and Φ is the polar (co-latitude) angle. These conventions are different from the conventions used in physics (and in particular in spherical harmonics) where the meanings of θ and Φ are reversed.

This class provides conversion of coordinates and also of gradient and Hessian between spherical and Cartesian coordinates.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
SphericalCoordinates(double r, double theta, double phi)	Build a spherical coordinates transformer from spherical coordinates.
SphericalCoordinates(Vector3D v)	Build a spherical coordinates transformer from Cartesian coordinates.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Vector3D	getCartesian()	Get the Cartesian coordinates.
double	getPhi()	Get the polar (co-latitude) angle.
double	getR()	Get the radius.
double	getTheta()	Get the azimuthal angle in x-y plane.
double[]	toCartesianGradient(double[] sGradient)	Convert a gradient with respect to spherical coordinates into a gradient with respect to Cartesian coordinates.
double[][]	toCartesianHessian(double[][] sHessian, double[] sGradient)	Convert a Hessian with respect to spherical coordinates into a Hessian with respect to Cartesian coordinates.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SphericalCoordinates

public SphericalCoordinates(Vector3D v)

Build a spherical coordinates transformer from Cartesian coordinates.

Parameters:

v - Cartesian coordinates

SphericalCoordinates

public SphericalCoordinates(double r,
                            double theta,
                            double phi)

Build a spherical coordinates transformer from spherical coordinates.

Parameters:

r - radius

theta - azimuthal angle in x-y plane

phi - polar (co-latitude) angle

Method Detail

getCartesian

public Vector3D getCartesian()

Get the Cartesian coordinates.

Returns:

Cartesian coordinates

getR

public double getR()

Get the radius.

Returns:

radius r

See Also:

getTheta(), getPhi()

getTheta

public double getTheta()

Get the azimuthal angle in x-y plane.

Returns:

azimuthal angle in x-y plane θ

See Also:

getR(), getPhi()

getPhi

public double getPhi()

Get the polar (co-latitude) angle.

Returns:

polar (co-latitude) angle Φ

See Also:

getR(), getTheta()

toCartesianGradient

public double[] toCartesianGradient(double[] sGradient)

Convert a gradient with respect to spherical coordinates into a gradient with respect to Cartesian coordinates.

Parameters:

sGradient - gradient with respect to spherical coordinates {df/dr, df/dθ, df/dΦ}

Returns:

gradient with respect to Cartesian coordinates {df/dx, df/dy, df/dz}

toCartesianHessian

public double[][] toCartesianHessian(double[][] sHessian,
                                     double[] sGradient)

Convert a Hessian with respect to spherical coordinates into a Hessian with respect to Cartesian coordinates.

As Hessian are always symmetric, we use only the lower left part of the provided spherical Hessian, so the upper part may not be initialized. However, we still do fill up the complete array we create, with guaranteed symmetry.

Parameters:

sHessian - Hessian with respect to spherical coordinates {{d²f/dr², d²f/drdθ, d²f/drdΦ}, {d²f/drdθ, d²f/dθ², d²f/dθdΦ}, {d²f/drdΦ, d²f/dθdΦ, d²f/dΦ²}

sGradient - gradient with respect to spherical coordinates {df/dr, df/dθ, df/dΦ}

Returns:

Hessian with respect to Cartesian coordinates {{d²f/dx², d²f/dxdy, d²f/dxdz}, {d²f/dxdy, d²f/dy², d²f/dydz}, {d²f/dxdz, d²f/dydz, d²f/dz²}}