The effect of rotation on the flattening of celestial bodies: a journey through four centuries

DOI10.2140/MEMOCS.2018.6.1zbMath1395.85001OpenAlexW2794869923WikidataQ130046658 ScholiaQ130046658MaRDI QIDQ1641174

Wolfgang H. Müller

Publication date: 27 June 2018

Published in: Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2140/memocs.2018.6.1

zbMATH Keywords

linear elasticityflatteningfluidhydrostaticsself-gravitationbarytropic equations of statedegenerate matterhistory of planet flatteninglinear-elastic Hookean model of Earthstresses in celestial bodies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Astronomy and astrophysics (85A99) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-00) General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.) pertaining to potential theory (31-00)

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Cites Work

• An expedition to continuum theory
• The state of deformation in earthlike self-gravitating objects
• The Theory of the Top Volume III

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