ELLIPSOIDAL STOKES BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEM WITH ELLIPSOIDAL CORRECTIONS IN THE BOUNDARY CONDITION

Abstract

We would like to solve the Stokes boundary-value problem taking into consideration the ellipsoidal corrections in the boundary condition in ellipsoidal coordinates The original problem, i.e., the ellipsoidal Stokes boundary-value problem has been solved by Martinec and Grafarend (1997) We use the same philosophy expressed by Martinec (1998) to solve the spherical Stokes boundary-value problem with ellipsoidal corrections in the boundary condition We wish to show the magnitude of the integration kernel describing the effect of the ellipsoidal corrections in the boundary condition in a cap around the computational point.