Axisymmetric Solutions in Elastostatics and Elastic Wave Propagation by Ascent Methods

In the present paper a method of ascent for axisymmetric problems is developed. It is shown that, for problems where the vector or scalar Laplacian operator specifies the space behavior of the potential functions, the three-dimensional axisymmetric problems may be solved by operating on the solution to an associated two-dimensional problem. Hence, the theoretical results presented here may be applied to heat transfer problems, to problems in elastostatics, and to elastic wave propagation problems.