Analytical solution from vector potentials for the gravitational field of a general polyhedron

DOI10.1007/s10569-014-9588-xzbMath1314.70012OpenAlexW1999734291MaRDI QIDQ2348887

John T. Conway

Publication date: 16 June 2015

Published in: Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-014-9588-x

zbMATH Keywords

analytical solutionpolyhedravector potentialgravitational fieldsurface integralspotential theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

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