Continuum mechanics and applications in geophyisics and the environment

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Continuum mechanics and applications in geophyisics and the environment

Brian Straughan ... [et al.] (eds.)

Springer, c2001

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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

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.- 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.- 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.- 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.

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  • NCID
    BA51764935
  • ISBN
    • 3540416609
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 393 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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