A new multidisciplinary study published in the International Journal of Hindu Studies has utilized computational fluid dynamics to re-examine the 12th-century Sanskrit treatise Siddhanta-Siromani by Bhaskara II. The research identifies a series of previously misunderstood mathematical recursive functions used to model non-linear tidal dissipation and its effect on planetary orbital decay.
These findings suggest that medieval Indian astronomers possessed a highly sophisticated understanding of the interaction between celestial bodies and liquid masses. The study demonstrates that the Sanskrit algorithms provided within the text achieve a high degree of precision when compared to modern gravitational models, predating similar developments in Western physics by several centuries.