Multidimensional Integral over Irregular Domains

We will attempt to model the energy of ion just above one half of a triangular capacitor.  Suppose there is a uniformly charged surface  (σ≡charge/area=1) occupying an equilaterial triangle in the z=0 plane:
    "index_60.gif"
    what is the energy (voltage) of a unit positive charge located at (x,y,z)

The electrical potential goes like "index_61.gif", therefore the potential of a unit charge located at (x,y,z) from a small surface patch at (ξ,η,0) is "index_62.gif"= "index_63.gif"

Therefore it remains to integrate this function over the domain η∈(0,"index_64.gif") and ξ∈ ("index_65.gif") , ("index_66.gif"))  
"index_67.gif"

First we investigate how Mathematica deals with multiple integrals: It integrates over the last iterator first:

"index_68.gif"

"index_69.gif"

"index_70.gif"

"index_71.gif"

For example,consider the difference in the following two cases:
First, we integrate over x and y using the two iterators in Integrate with the order {y,0,1}, {x,0,y}. Tnen explicitely using two separate steps

"index_72.gif"

"index_73.gif"

"index_74.gif"

"index_75.gif"

Compared to
integrate over x and y using the two iterators in Integrate with the order {x,0,y},{y,0,1}. Tnen explicitely using two separate steps

"index_76.gif"

"index_77.gif"

"index_78.gif"

"index_79.gif"


Created by Wolfram Mathematica 6.0  (24 September 2007) Valid XHTML 1.1!