Gravity anomalies of arbitrary 3D polyhedral bodies with horizontal and vertical mass contrasts

Z Ren, C Chen, K Pan, T Kalscheuer, H Maurer… - Surveys in …, 2017 - Springer
During the last 15 years, more attention has been paid to derive analytic formulae for the
gravitational potential and field of polyhedral mass bodies with complicated polynomial …

Gravity anomaly of polyhedral bodies having a polynomial density contrast

MG D'Urso, S Trotta - Surveys in Geophysics, 2017 - Springer
We analytically evaluate the gravity anomaly associated with a polyhedral body having an
arbitrary geometrical shape and a polynomial density contrast in both the horizontal and …

Fast 3‐D large‐scale gravity and magnetic modeling using unstructured grids and an adaptive multilevel fast multipole method

Z Ren, J Tang, T Kalscheuer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A novel fast and accurate algorithm is developed for large‐scale 3‐D gravity and magnetic
modeling problems. An unstructured grid discretization is used to approximate sources with …

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

D Tsoulis - Geophysics, 2012 - library.seg.org
The analytical computation of the full gravity tensor from a polyhedral source of
homogeneous density is presented, with emphasis on its algorithmic implementation. The …

Analytical computation of gravity effects for polyhedral bodies

MG D'Urso - Journal of Geodesy, 2014 - Springer
On the basis of recent analytical results we derive new formulas for computing the gravity
effects of polyhedral bodies which are expressed solely as function of the coordinates of the …

Gravity anomalies of arbitrary 3D polyhedral bodies with horizontal and vertical mass contrasts up to cubic order

Z Ren, Y Zhong, C Chen, J Tang, K Pan - Geophysics, 2018 - library.seg.org
ABSTRACT A new singularity-free analytical formula has been developed for the gravity
field of arbitrary 3D polyhedral mass bodies with horizontally and vertically varying density …

Mascon gravitation model using a shaped polyhedral source

TGG Chanut, S Aljbaae… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In the last two decades, new computational tools have been developed in order to aid space
missions to orbit around irregular small bodies. One of the techniques consists in rebuilding …

Gravity effects of polyhedral bodies with linearly varying density

MG D'Urso - Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2014 - Springer
We extend a recent approach for computing the gravity effects of polyhedral bodies with
uniform density by the case of bodies with linearly varying density and by consistently taking …

Gravimagnetic anomaly formulas for polyhedra of spatially linear media

H Holstein - Geophysics, 2003 - library.seg.org
Formulas for the gravity potential, field, and field gradient tensor are derived for a polyhedral
target body of a spatially linear density medium. The formulas also define the magnetic …

On the evaluation of the gravity effects of polyhedral bodies and a consistent treatment of related singularities

MG D'Urso - Journal of Geodesy, 2013 - Springer
We show that the singularities which can affect the computation of the gravity effects
(potential, gravity and tensor gradient fields) can be systematically addressed by invoking …