Keywords:
Geophysics--Mathematical models.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (401 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783662044391
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3098787
DDC:
550.015118
Language:
English
Note:
Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Part I Applied Continuum Mechanics -- Numerical Investigation of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas Described by a Variable Eddington Factor -- Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials -- Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Thermodynamicists's View -- Asymptotic and Other Properties of Some Nonlinear Diffusion Models -- The Binary Mixtures of Euler Fluids: A Unified Theory of Second Sound Phenomena -- Continuously Distributed Control of Plates by Electric Networks with PZT Actuators -- Part II Soil Mechanics and Porous Media -- Hydraulic Theory for a Frictional Debris Flow on a Collisional Shear Layer -- The Beavers and Joseph Condition for Velocity Slip at the Surface of a Porous Medium -- Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues -- Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media - Application to Unsaturated Soils -- Part III Glacier and Ice Dynamics -- Modelling Iceberg Drift and Ice-Rafted Sedimentation -- Modelling the Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets -- Notes on Basic Glaciological Computational Methods and Algorithms -- Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice -- Influence of Bed Topography on Steady Plane Ice Sheet Flow -- Part IV Climatology and Lake Physics -- Glacial Isostasy: Models for the Response of the Earth to Varying Ice Loads -- Arctic Sea Ice and Its Role in Climate Variability and Change -- The Role of Simple Models in Understanding Climate Change -- Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lake Constance.
