Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment

Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment
Author: Brian Straughan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3662044390

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.

Proceedings, "WASCOM 2003"

Proceedings,
Author: Roberto Monaco
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981238748X

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics. Collectively these papers give a good overview of the activities and developments in these fields in the last few years.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP? / ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)? CC Proceedings ? Engineering & Physical Sciences

Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications

Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications
Author: Ryszard Staroszczyk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2018-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030030385

This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of their application in the fields of glaciology, climate research and civil engineering in cold regions. It starts with an account of the most important physical properties of sea and polar ice treated as an anisotropic polycrystalline material, and reviews relevant field observations and experimental measurements. The book focuses on theoretical descriptions of the material behaviour of ice in different stress, deformation and deformation-rate regimes on spatial scales ranging from single ice crystals, those typical in civil engineering applications, up to scales of thousands of kilometres, characteristic of large, grounded polar ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland. In addition, it offers a range of numerical formulations based on either discrete (finite-element, finite-difference and smoothed particle hydrodynamics) methods or asymptotic expansion methods, which have been used by geophysicists, theoretical glaciologists and civil engineers to simulate the behaviour of ice in a number of problems of importance to glaciology and civil engineering, and discusses the results of these simulations. The book is intended for scientists, engineers and graduate students interested in mathematical and numerical modelling of a wide variety of geophysical and civil engineering problems involving natural ice.

Proceedings, "WASCOM 2001"

Proceedings,
Author: Roberto Monaco
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2002
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9789812380173

First organized in 1981, the WASCOM conference to bring together researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss problems, promote collaborations and shape future directions for research in the field of stability and wave propagation in continuous media.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th edition of the conference, the first of the third millennium. The main topics are: (1) Linear and nonlinear hyperbolic equations, conservation laws and specific aspects of wave propagation; (2) stability of systems of PDEs, with particular reference to those of fluid and solid mechanics; (3) extended thermodynamics and passage from microscopic to macroscopic description of the medium for systems characterized also by inelastic interactions at the kinetic scale.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection

The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection
Author: Brian Straughan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387217401

Six new chapters (14-19) deal with topics of current interest: multi-component convection diffusion, convection in a compressible fluid, convenction with temperature dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity, penetrative convection, nonlinear stability in ocean circulation models, and numerical solution of eigenvalue problems.

Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 11th Conference On Wascom 2001

Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 11th Conference On Wascom 2001
Author: Miriam Pandolfi Bianchi
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2002-06-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814488453

First organized in 1981, the WASCOM conference to bring together researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss problems, promote collaborations and shape future directions for research in the field of stability and wave propagation in continuous media.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th edition of the conference, the first of the third millennium. The main topics are: (1) Linear and nonlinear hyperbolic equations, conservation laws and specific aspects of wave propagation; (2) stability of systems of PDEs, with particular reference to those of fluid and solid mechanics; (3) extended thermodynamics and passage from microscopic to macroscopic description of the medium for systems characterized also by inelastic interactions at the kinetic scale.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)

Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 12th Conference On Wascom 2003

Waves And Stability In Continuous Media - Proceedings Of The 12th Conference On Wascom 2003
Author: Roberto Monaco
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2004-04-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981448329X

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics. Collectively these papers give a good overview of the activities and developments in these fields in the last few years.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI Proceedings)• Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)• CC Proceedings — Engineering & Physical Sciences

Continuum Mechanics in Environmental Sciences and Geophysics

Continuum Mechanics in Environmental Sciences and Geophysics
Author: K. Hutter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2014-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3709126002

Modern continuum mechanics is the topic of this book. After its introduction it will be applied to a few typical systems arising in the environmental sciences and in geophysics. In large lake/ocean dynamics peculiar effects of the rotation of the Earth will be analyzed in linear/nonlinear processes of a homogenous and inhomogenous water body. Strong thermomechanical coupling paired with nonlinear rheology affects the flow of large ice sheets (such as Antarctica and Greenland) and ice shelves. Its response to the climatic forcing in an environmental of greenhouse warming may significantly affect the life of future generations. The mechanical behavior of granular materials under quasistatic loadings requires non-classical mixture concepts and encounters generally complicated elastic-plastic-type constitutive behavior. Creeping flow of soils, consolidation processes and ground water flow are described by such theories. Rapid shearing flow of granular materials lead to constitutive relations for the stresses which incorporate rate independent behavior of Mohr-Coulomb type together with dispersive stress contributions due to particle collisions. Rockfalls, sturzstroms, snow and ice avalanches, but also debris flow and sea ice drifting can be described with such formulations.

Proceedings of XXIV AIMETA Conference 2019

Proceedings of XXIV AIMETA Conference 2019
Author: Antonio Carcaterra
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 2200
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030410579

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXIV Conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Rome, Italy, on September 15-19, 2019 (AIMETA 2019). The conference topics encompass all aspects of general, fluid, solid and structural mechanics, as well as mechanics for machines and mechanical systems, including theoretical, computational and experimental techniques and technological applications. As such the book represents an invaluable, up-to-the-minute tool, providing an essential overview of the most recent advances in the field.