Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment

Brian Straughan, Ralf Greve, Harald Ehrentraut, Yongqi Wang

393 pages, parution le 01/04/2001

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Résumé

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.

contents

Part I - Applied Continuum Mechanics

Numerical Investigation of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas
Described by a Variable Eddington Factor
Angelo Marcello Anile, Vittorio Romano

Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials
Harald Ehrentraut

Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Thermodynamicists's View
Ingo Müller

Asymptotic and Other Properties of Some Nonlinear Diffusion Models
Salvatore Rionero

The Binary Mixtures of Euler Fluids :
A United Theory of Second Sound Phenomena
Tommaso Ruggeri

Continuously Distributed Control of Plates by Electric Networks with PZT Actuators
Stefano Vidoli, Francesco dell'Isola

Part II - Soil Mechanics and Porous Media

Hydraulic Theory for a Frictional Debris Flow on a Collisional Shear Layer
James T. Jenkins

The Beavers and Joseph Condition for Velocity Slip at the Surface of a Porous Medium
Geoff McKay

Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues
Brian Straughan

Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media - Application to Unsaturated Soils
Laurent Vulliet, Lyesse Laloui

Part III - Glacier and Ice Dynamics

Modelling Iceberg Drift and Ice-Rafted Sedimentation
Garry K.C. Clarke, Douglas I. La Prairie

Modelling the Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Andrew C. Fowler

Notes on Basic Glaciological
Computational Methods and Algorithms
Richard C.A. Hindmarsh

Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice
Jacques Meyssonnier, Paul Duval, Olivier Gagliardini, Armelle Philip

Infuence of Bed Topography on Steady Plane Ice Sheet Flow
Leslie W. Morland

Part IV - Climatology and Lake Physics

Glacial Isostasy : Models for the Response of the Earth to Varying Ice Loads
Ralf Greve

Arctic Sea Ice and Its Role in Climate Variability and Change
Lawrence A. Mysak

The Role of Simple Models in Understanding Climate Change
Thomas F. Stocker

Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lake Constance
Yongqi Wang

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Brian Straughan, Ralf Greve, Harald Ehrentraut, Yongqi Wang
Parution	01/04/2001
Nb. de pages	393
Format	15,5 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	702g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783540416609