Mechanics In The Earth And Environmental Sciences

Author : Gerard V. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446693
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mechanics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences written by Gerard V. Middleton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the Earth and the environment requires an understanding of the physical processes within and at the surface of the Earth. This book will allow the student to develop a broad working knowledge of mechanics and its application to the earth and environmental sciences. The mathematics are introduced at a level that assumes only an understanding of first-year calculus. The concepts are then developed to allow an understanding of the basic physics for a wide range of natural processes. These are illustrated by examples from many real situations, such as the application of the theory of flow through porous media to the study of groundwater, the viscosity of fluids to the flow of lava, and the theory of stress to the study of faults. The breadth of topics will allow students and professionals to gain an insight into the workings of many aspects of the Earth's systems.

Author : K. Hutter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3709126002
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Continuum Mechanics in Environmental Sciences and Geophysics written by K. Hutter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard E. Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521847257
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Science for Civil and Environmental Engineers written by Richard E. Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the fundamental principles of applied Earth science needed for engineering practice, with case studies, exercises, and online solutions.

Author : Vladimir Karev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319777882
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes written by Vladimir Karev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November. The papers included describe studies on the dynamics of natural system – geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere—and their interactions, the human contribution to naturally occurring processes, laboratory modeling of earth and environment processes, and testing of new developed physical and mathematical models. The book particularly focuses on modeling in the field of oil and gas production as well as new alternative energy sources.

Author : Carlo Gualtieri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134064233
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fluid Mechanics of Environmental Interfaces written by Carlo Gualtieri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental interface is defined as a surface between two abiotic or biotic systems, in relative motion and exchanging mass, heat and momentum through biophysical and/or chemical processes. These processes fluctuate temporally and spatially. The book first treats exchange processes occurring at the interfaces between atmosphere and the surface of the sea, and atmosphere and land surface. These exchanges include the effect of vegetation, transport of dust and dispersion of passive substances within the atmosphere. Processes at the environmental interfaces of freshwater, such as gas-transfer at free-surfaces of rivers, advective diffusion of air bubbles in turbulent water flows and boundary-layers phenomena in vegetated open channels are also described. Finally, the book deals with the phenomena that affect transport of material to and from the surface of an organism, including molecular and turbulent diffusion. The relevant issues related to mass transfer to and from benthic plants and animals are further considered in detail. The book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in environmental sciences, civil engineering and environmental engineering, (geo)physics and applied mathematics.

Author : V. I. Karev
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303011533X
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes (2018) written by V. I. Karev and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book entitled "Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes" is the result of a collaborative work after the 4th international scientific youth forum held at the IPMech RAS on November 1–3, 2018. The book includes theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans, the lithosphere and their interaction; environmental issues; problems of human impact on the environment; methods of geophysical research. A special focus is given to the extraction of hydrocarbon resources, including unconventional sources. This book also focuses on new approaches to the development of hydrocarbon fields, very important in today's geopolitical conditions. The book presents new results of the experimental and theoretical modeling of deformation, fracture and filtration processes in the rocks in connection with issues of creating scientific fundamentals for new hydrocarbon production technologies.

Author : Dexter Perkins
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429589255
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Materials written by Dexter Perkins and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a large and growing need for a textbook that can form the basis for integrated classes that look at minerals, rocks, and other Earth materials. Despite the need, no high-quality book is available for such a course. Earth Materials is a wide-ranging undergraduate textbook that covers all the most important kinds of (inorganic) Earth materials. Besides traditional chapters on minerals and rocks, this book features chapters on sediments and stratigraphy, weathering and soils, water and the hydrosphere, and mineral and energy deposits. Introductions to soil mechanics and rock mechanics are also included. This book steers away from the model of traditional encyclopedic science textbooks, but rather exposes students to the key and most exciting ideas and information, with an emphasis on thinking about Earth as a system. The book is written in such a manner as to support inquiry, discovery and other forms of active learning. All chapters start with a short topical story or vignette, and the plentiful photographs and other graphics are integrated completely with the text. Earth Materials will be interesting and useful for a wide range of learners, including geoscience students, students taking mineralogy and petrology courses, engineers, and anyone interested in learning more about the Earth as a system.

Author : Hillel Rubin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780203908495
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Fluid Mechanics written by Hillel Rubin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Fluid Mechanics provides comprehensive coverage of a combination of basic fluid principles and their application in a number of different situations-exploring fluid motions on the earth's surface, underground, and in oceans-detailing the use of physical and numerical models and modern computational approaches for the analysis of environmental processes. Environmental Fluid Mechanics covers novel scaling methods for a variety of environmental issues; equations of motion for boundary layers; hydraulic characteristics of open channel flow; surface and internal wave theory; the advection diffusion equation; sediment and associated contaminant transport in lakes and streams; mixed layer modeling in lakes; remediation; transport processes at the air/water interface; and more.

Author : Wolfgang Rodi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203803965
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Fluid Mechanics written by Wolfgang Rodi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the written versions of invited lectures presented at the Gerhard H. Jirka Memorial Colloquium on Environmental Fluid Mechanics, held June 3-4, 2011, in Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Jirka was widely known for his outstanding work in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, and 23 eminent world-leading experts in this field contributed to

Author : Christopher H. Scholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521655408
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting written by Christopher H. Scholz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-02 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of earthquakes and faulting processes has developed significantly since publication of the successful first edition of this book in 1990. This revised edition, first published in 2002, was therefore thoroughly up-dated whilst maintaining and developing the two major themes of the first edition. The first of these themes is the connection between fault and earthquake mechanics, including fault scaling laws, the nature of fault populations, and how these result from the processes of fault growth and interaction. The second major theme is the central role of the rate-state friction laws in earthquake mechanics, which provide a unifying framework within which a wide range of faulting phenomena can be interpreted. With the inclusion of two chapters explaining brittle fracture and rock friction from first principles, this book is written at a level which will appeal to graduate students and research scientists in the fields of seismology, physics, geology, geodesy and rock mechanics.