Abstract
There are numerous applications in geodesy and other geo-sciences in which the gravitational potential effect or other functions of the potential are computed by forward modelling from a given mass distribution. Different volume discretisations, e.g. prisms, tesseroids or mass layers are used. In order to control the numerical realisation of the forward calculation in the practical application, e.g. in reduction tasks, these evaluation programs should be verified against rigorous analytical solutions. In this contribution, a closed analytical solution for the potential of an ellipsoidal shell as a test body is presented. Furthermore, we derive the respective closed formulae for the gravity vector and the gravity gradient tensor. Program implementations of the tesseroid approach are compared on the basis of this ellipsoidal mass arrangement. For the practical usage, fast-converging expansions in spherical harmonics are provided in addition. The derivation of the formulae is based on a closed solution of the potential of a homogeneous ellipsoid for computation points situated on the rotation axis, which then is extended to the external space.
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