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Solution to discrete exterior Dirichlet problem of gravitational potential determination to real geometries. (English) Zbl 1332.31009

The authors propose a numerical solution for the discrete exterior Dirichlet boundary value problem of gravitational potential with respect to the real Earth surface. Using a spline approach for the real Earth, the approximating spline has the same domain of harmonicity as the real gravitational potential.

MSC:

31B20 Boundary value and inverse problems for harmonic functions in higher dimensions
65N35 Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
41A15 Spline approximation
86A20 Potentials, prospecting