The determination of the gravitational potential of arbitrary mass distribution

DOI10.1007/BF00717865MaRDI QIDQ1822533zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors R. Tschaepe

Publication date 1987

Published in Astrophysics and Space Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00717865

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational potentialLegendre functionsmass distributionNumerical computationPoisson differential equationPoisson integralspherical expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) Statics (70C20)

Review text

Numerical computation of the gravitational potential for arbitrary mass distribution in spherical coordinates is considered. It is possible to determine the potential from the spherical expansion of the Poisson integral with 1/2 \(n^ 2NML\) operations - i.e. with a number proportional to the mesh number NML multiplied by the square of the Legendre functions of index n. The computation of the potential based on the solution of the Poisson differential equation is discussed.

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