ABSTRACT
The Green’s functions (GFs) for regularly shaped bodies, such as plates, cylinders, and spheres, can be obtained by classical methods. These regularly shaped bodies shall be called orthogonal bodies.Anormal at any point on the boundary of an orthogonal body is parallel to the direction of a coordinate axis. The solution methods and the derivation of the GFs for various orthogonal bodies are discussed elsewhere in this book. The formulation of the GFs for nonorthogonal bodies, as investigated by Haji-Sheikh and Lakshminarayanan (1987) and Haji-Sheikh and Beck (1988), are in this chapter.
