Analytical computation of the full gravity tensor of a homogeneous arbitrarily shaped polyhedral source using line integrals

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tsoulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D; Gravity; Interpretation; Modeling

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; MODELS; TENSORS;

ANALYTICAL COMPUTATIONS; DIVERGENCE THEOREM; FIRST ORDER DERIVATIVES; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; INTERPRETATION; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; GRAVITY SURVEY; POLYGON; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84858593854     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2010-0334.1     Document Type: Article

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