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9783540416609

Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment

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    9783540416609

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    3540416609

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-03-01
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

This topical volume reviews applications of continuum mechanics to systems in geophysics and the environment. Part of the text is devoted to numerical simulations and modeling. The topics covered include soil mechanics and porous media, glacier and ice dynamics, climatology and lake physics, climate change as well as numerical algorithms. The book, written by well-known experts, addresses researchers and students interested in physical aspects of our environment.

Table of Contents

Part I Applied Continuum Mechanics
Numerical Investigation of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas Described by a Variable Eddington Factor
3(15)
Angelo Marcello Anile
Vittorio Romano
Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials
18(26)
Harald Ehrentraut
Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Thermodynamicists's View
44(12)
Ingo Muller
Asymptotic and Other Properties of Some Nonlinear Diffusion Models
56(23)
Salvatore Rionero
The Binary Mixtures of Euler Fluids: A Unified Theory of Second Sound Phenomena
79(13)
Tommaso Ruggeri
Continuously Distributed Control of Plates by Electric Networks with PZT Actuators
92(21)
Stefano Vidoli
Francesco dell'Isola
Part II Soil Mechanics and Porous Media
Hydraulic Theory for a Frictional Debris Flow on a Collisional Shear Layer
113(13)
James T. Jenkins
The Beavers and Joseph Condition for Velocity Slip at the Surface of a Porous Medium
126(14)
Geoff McKay
Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues
140(13)
Brian Straughan
Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media - Application to Unsaturated Soils
153(30)
Laurent Vulliet
Lyesse Laloui
Part III Glacier and Ice Dynamics
Modelling Iceberg Drift and Ice-Rafted Sedimentation
183(18)
Garry K.C. Clarke
Douglas I. La Prairie
Modelling the Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
201(21)
Andrew C. Fowler
Notes on Basic Glaciological Computational Methods and Algorithms
222(28)
Richard C.A. Hindmarsh
Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice
250(26)
Jacques Meyssonnier
Paul Duval
Olivier Gagliardini
Armelle Philip
Influence of Bed Topography on Steady Plane Ice Sheet Flow
276(31)
Leslie W. Morland
Part IV Climatology and Lake Physics
Glacial Isostasy: Models for the Response of the Earth to Varying Ice Loads
307(19)
Ralf Greve
Arctic Sea Ice and Its Role in Climate Variability and Change
326(11)
Lawrence A. Mysak
The Role of Simple Models in Understanding Climate Change
337(31)
Thomas F. Stocker
Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lake Constance
368
Yongqi Wang

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