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 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 …

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 …

Exact solutions of the vertical gravitational anomaly for a polyhedral prism with vertical polynomial density contrast of arbitrary orders

C Chen, Z Ren, K Pan, J Tang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present general closed-form solutions for the vertical gravitational anomaly caused by a
polyhedral prism with mass density contrast varying with depth. Our equations are the first …

3D vector gravity potential and line integrals for the gravity anomaly of a rectangular prism with 3D variable density contrast

X Zhou - Geophysics, 2009 - library.seg.org
Three-dimensional rectangular prisms are building blocks for calculating gravity anomalies
from irregular 3D mass bodies with spatially variable density contrasts. A 3D vector gravity …

A versatile solution for the gravity anomaly of 3D prism-meshed bodies with depth-dependent density contrast

L Jiang, J Zhang, Z Feng - Geophysics, 2017 - library.seg.org
We have developed a generalized solution for computing the gravity anomalies of 3D
irregular-mass bodies with complicated density-contrast variation. The 3D irregular-shaped …

The gravity anomaly of a 2D polygonal body having density contrast given by polynomial functions

MG D'Urso - Surveys in Geophysics, 2015 - Springer
An analytical solution is presented for the gravity anomaly produced by a 2D body whose
geometrical shape is arbitrary and where the density contrast is a polynomial function in …

Recursive analytical formulae of gravitational fields and gradient tensors for polyhedral bodies with polynomial density contrasts of arbitrary non-negative integer …

Z Ren, C Chen, Y Zhong, H Chen, T Kalscheuer… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
Exact computation of the gravitational field and gravitational gradient tensor for a general
mass body is a core routine to model the density structure of the Earth. In this study, we …

Analytic solution of the gravity anomaly of irregular 2D masses with density contrast varying as a 2D polynomial function

X Zhou - Geophysics, 2010 - library.seg.org
The analytic solution of the gravity anomaly caused by a 2D irregular mass body with the
density contrast varying as a polynomial function in the horizontal and vertical directions is …

General line integrals for gravity anomalies of irregular 2D masses with horizontally and vertically dependent density contrast

X Zhou - Geophysics, 2009 - library.seg.org
Line integrals (LIs) are an efficient tool in calculating the gravity anomaly caused by an
irregular 2D mass body because the 2D surface integral is reduced to a 1D LI. Historically …