The sand grain and the butterfly. Instability in geodesy and geophysics
The problems of convergence of series in celestial mechanics and of certain series in geodesy (Molodensky's series and spherical harmonics) show similar features, involving a curious instability. This is imaginatively expressed as the « butterfly effect» in chaos theory and the «sand-grain effe...
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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
1997-06-01
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| Series: | Annals of Geophysics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3871 |