The determination of the gravitational potential of arbitrary mass distribution

DOI10.1007/BF00717865zbMath0617.70001MaRDI QIDQ1822533

R. Tschaepe

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

mass distributionPoisson integralLegendre functionsgravitational potentialNumerical computationPoisson differential equationspherical expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (1)

Simulating self-gravitating hydrodynamic flows

Cites Work

• Iterative and Direct Determinations of the Gravitational Potential of Axisymmetric Mass Distributions in Spherical Coordinates
• The Determination of the Gravitational Potential in Spherical Coordinates III: Radial recursive integration of the Poisson integral

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