Computation of magnetic anomalies and gradients for spatial arbitrary posture regular body

Abstract

In the interaction computation for 3D gravity and magnetic anomalies due to arbitrarily shaped homogenous magnetized polyhedron model composed of triangular facets, there are many difficult points, such as mass computing, absence of a mature computer technique in 3D geological body modeling, inconvenient human-computer interaction, hard program coding, etc.. Based on the formulae of the magnetic field due to horizontal regular bodies, and by applying forward theory with the three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system transformation, the forward problems of magnetic anomalies and gradient tensors for arbitrary slantwise regular bodies were solved. It is shown that the magnetic calculating expressions of the arbitrary posture regular body are corrected by comparing results with the homogeneous polyhedral body model outcome data. Furthermore, in the same condition, the former significantly reduced forward time. Applying a new forward method of regular body expressions in arbitrary posture, developed software for interaction computation between the 3D geological body model and magnetic field has advantages of fast calculation speed, easy manipulation, etc..

Keywords

regular magnetic body / spatial posture / coordinate system transformation / transformation matrix / forward calculation

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