Comparative study on two methods for calculating the gravitational potential of a prism

Geo-Spatial Information Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 60-64

  Han, Jiancheng ^a   Shen, Wenbin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Gravitational potential of a prism; Nagy approach; Numerical comparison study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874115975     PISSN: 10095020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11806-010-0129-9     Document Type: Article

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