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

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(84)90131-1zbMATH Open0548.35015OpenAlexW2023083541MaRDI QIDQ799861FDOQ799861

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

divergencespherical harmonicsLaplace equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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

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