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Boundary Value Problems of Physical Geodesy for Ph.D. Students - NDGF018
Title: Okrajové úlohy pro určení tíhového pole a tvaru Země pro doktorandy
Guaranteed by: Department of Geophysics (32-KG)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Martinec, DrSc.
Classification: Physics > Geophysics
Annotation -
Last update: T_KG (28.03.2008)
Stokes problem for the Laplace equation, geoid, orthometric heights. Molodensky problem, quasigeoid, normal heights. Dirichlet problem, harmonic downward continuation, stabilization. Ellipsoidal approximation, ellipsoidal corrections. Gradiometric problem.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KG (28.03.2008)

The lecture formulates basic boundary-value problems of physical geodesy and shows their solutions for simple Earth shapes.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: prof. RNDr. František Gallovič, Ph.D. (10.06.2019)

Oral exam

Literature - Czech
Last update: T_KG (18.01.2007)
  • W. A. Heiskanen, H. Moritz: Physical Geodesy, Freeman, San Francisco 1967.
  • H. Moritz: Advanced Physical Geodesy, Wichmann, Karlsruhe 1980.

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KG (11.04.2008)

Lecture

Syllabus -
Last update: T_KG (28.03.2008)
Boundary-value problem for geoid determination

Gravity and gravitational potentials, the geoid, formulation of the problem for geoid determination, Bruns' formula, its accuracy, linearizations in gravity and geometry spaces, spherical and ellipsoidal approximations, ellipsoidal corrections, free-air gravity anomaly, reference satellite gravity model.

Helmert's condensation and isostatic reductions

Airy-Heiskanen and Pratt-Hayford compensation models, Helmert's condensation, direct and indirect topographical effects, co-geoid.

Stokes's problem

Its formulation, existence and uniqueness of a solution, Stokes's integral, Stokes-function - spectral and spatial forms, removing of weak singularity of Stokes's function, truncated Stokes's integration, near- and far-zone contributions, role of the reference gravity field, spheroidal Stokes's function, Molodenskij's truncation coefficients, Paul's coefficients.

Poisson's integral and continuation of a harmonic function

External and internal Dirichlet's BVP for the Laplace equation on a sphere, Poisson's kernel - spectral and spatial forms, expansion of the delta-function in spherical harmonics, truncation of Poisson integral, near- and far-zone contributions, downward continuation of gravity, instability of a continuous problem, regularization by discretization, Tikhonov regularization.

Stokes and Dirichlet problem on an ellipsoid of revolution

Formulation of boundary-value problems, the uniqueness of a solution, ellipsoidal harmonics, their computation, generalized addition theorems, ellipsoidal Stokes and Poisson kernels, their spatial representations, behavior at the point psi=0.

Literature:

  • W. A. Heiskanen, H. Moritz: Physical Geodesy, Freeman, San Francisco 1967.
  • H. Moritz: Advanced Physical Geodesy, Wichmann, Karlsruhe 1980.

 
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