Capacity of the regular polyhedra (Q912386)

The paper contains new results on the capacitance of the five Platonic solids. Using a finite difference method, the author gives a numerical approximation for every regular polyhedron and compares this with results that are already known. (Therefore the paper is a good survey on this subject, too.) In the cases of cube and tetrahedron, a method of estimating a posteriori the leading terms of the local truncation error (for the discrete method used) is developed, together with various techniques of manipulating these estimates to determine the influence of this error on that of the computed solution.