Existence, uniqueness, and angle computation for the loxodrome on an ellipsoid of revolution

zbMath1171.53005MaRDI QIDQ1019322

Abed Elhashash

Publication date: 2 June 2009

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism; loxodrome; ellipsoid of revolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

34A12: Initial value problems, existence, uniqueness, continuous dependence and continuation of solutions to ordinary differential equations

53A05: Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces

53A04: Curves in Euclidean and related spaces

51N20: Euclidean analytic geometry