Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers

Ralf Greve, Heinz Blatter

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of... Lees meer

Rogue Waves in the Ocean

Christian Kharif, Efim Pelinovsky, Alexey Slunyaev

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• "It came from nowhere, snapping giant ships in two. No one believed the survivors . . . until now" --New Scientist magazine cover, June 30, 2001 Rogue... Lees meer

Convective and Advective Heat Transfer in Geological Systems

Chongbin Zhao, Bruce E Hobbs, Alison Ord

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• The study of heat transfer mechanisms in hydrothermal systems is important for understanding the basic physics behind orebody formation and mineraliza... Lees meer

Physics of Lakes

Kolumban Hutter, Irina P Chubarenko, Yongqi Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lak... Lees meer

Physics of Lakes, Volume 1

Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang, Irina P Chubarenko

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• This first volume in the treatise on the Physics of Lakes deals with the formulation of the mathematical and physical background. A large number of la... Lees meer

Non-Hydrostatic Free Surface Flows

Oscar Castro-Orgaz, Willi H Hager

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• This book provides essential information on the higher mathematical level of approximation over the gradually varied flow theory, also referred to as ... Lees meer

Non-Hydrostatic Free Surface Flows

Oscar Castro-Orgaz, Willi H Hager

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• This book provides essential information on the higher mathematical level of approximation over the gradually varied flow theory, also referred to as ... Lees meer

Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers

Ralf Greve, Heinz Blatter

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of... Lees meer

Variational Formulation of Fluid and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Gualtiero Badin, Fulvio Crisciani

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Emphasizes a subject matter of interdisciplinary interest for meteorology, oceanography, physics and applied mathematics Provides a detailed derivatio... Lees meer

Introduction to Climate Modelling

Thomas Stocker

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• A three-tier approach is presented: (i) fundamental dynamical concepts of climate processes, (ii) their mathematical formulation based on balance equa... Lees meer

Introduction to Climate Modelling

Thomas Stocker

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• A three-tier approach is presented: (i) fundamental dynamical concepts of climate processes, (ii) their mathematical formulation based on balance equa... Lees meer

Fluid and Thermodynamics

Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• In this book fluid mechanics and thermodynamics (F&T) are approached as interwoven, not disjoint fields. The book starts by analyzing the creeping mot... Lees meer

Gradually-Varied Flow Profiles in Open Channels

Chyan-Deng Jan

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Gradually-varied flow (GVF) is a steady non-uniform flow in an open channel with gradual changes in its water surface elevation. The evaluation of GVF... Lees meer

Shapes and Dynamics of Granular Minor Planets

Ishan Sharma

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• This book develops a general approach that can be systematically refined to investigate the statics and dynamics of deformable solid bodies. These met... Lees meer

Fluid and Thermodynamics

Kolumban Hutter, Yongqi Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• This third volume describes continuous bodies treated as classical (Boltzmann) and spin (Cosserat) continua or fluid mixtures of such bodies. It discu... Lees meer

Spectral Methods for the Estimation of the Effective Elastic Thickness of the Lithosphere

Jonathan Kirby

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Although several excellent works exist that describe the effective elastic thickness (Te) of the lithosphere-its theory, significance and relevance to... Lees meer

Spherical Functions of Mathematical Geosciences

Willi Freeden, Michael Schreiner

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Basic Settings and Spherical Nomenclature.- Scalar Spherical Harmonics.- Green's Functions and Integral Formulas.- Vector Spherical Harmonics.- Tensor... Lees meer

Nonlinear Internal Waves in Lakes

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Internal wave dynamics in lakes (and oceans) is an important physical component of geophysical fluid mechanics of 'quiescent' water bodies of the Glob... Lees meer

Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems

William G Gray, Cass T Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory provides a consistent method for upscaling conservation and thermodynamic equations for application in ... Lees meer

Shallow Geophysical Mass Flows Down Arbitrary Topography

Ioana Luca, Yih-Chin Tai, Chih-Yu Kuo

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Geophysical mass flows, such as landslides, avalanches or debris flows, are frequent mass movement processes in mountain areas and often cause disastr... Lees meer

Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems

William G Gray, Cass T Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Thermodynamically constrained averaging theory provides a consistent method for upscaling conservation and thermodynamic equations for application in ... Lees meer

Physics of Lakes

Kolumban Hutter, Irina P Chubarenko, Yongqi Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• The ongoing thread in this volume of Physics of Lakes is the presentation of different methods of investigation for processes taking place in real lak... Lees meer

Physical Soil Mechanics

Gerd Gudehus

• Paperback | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Soil is a matter of its own right, whose properties should be modeled as accurately and reliably as possible. Geoscientists and geotechnical engineers... Lees meer

Spectral Methods for the Estimation of the Effective Elastic Thickness of the Lithosphere

Jonathan Kirby

• Hardcover | Engels | Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Math
• Although several excellent works exist that describe the effective elastic thickness (Te) of the lithosphere-its theory, significance and relevance to... Lees meer