On the limitations of spherical harmonics for the solution of Laplace's equation

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(84)90131-1MaRDI QIDQ799861zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. R. Brazier-Smith

Publication date 1984

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(84)90131-1

zbMATH Keywords

divergenceLaplace equationsspherical harmonics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Harmonic, subharmonic, superharmonic functions in higher dimensions (31B05) Series solutions to PDEs (35C10) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05)

Review text

The author analyses some cases when the series in spherical harmonics for solution of Laplace equations diverges.

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• Comments on the summations of spherical harmonics in the geopotential evaluation theories of Deprit and others

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