Update Gravitational Potential including indirect terms authored by Elena Lega's avatar Elena Lega
The gravitational potential entering in the source terms of the Navier-Stokes equations is the sum of multiple terms:
1. **The potential from the central massive body** (primary of mass $`M_*`$):
1. ##The potential from the central massive body (primary of mass $`M_*`$):
$`\Phi_*=-{{ G M_*} \over {r}}`$
2. **The potential form the planets** of mass $m_p$.
2. ##The potential form the planets of mass $m_p$.
Below we consider the case of one single planet, easily extended to multiple planets.
- In the 3 Dimensional case
we use a cubic-potential of the form:
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3. **The potential accounting for the acceleration of the primary (indirect terms)**
3. ##The indirect terms
This term in the potential accounts for the acceleration of the primary