Rheology of the Earth

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Beginning with basic principles, this advanced text gives a complete treatment of deformation and flow of earth materials from both the continuum mechanics and the microphysical viewpoints. It covers the role and consequences of rheological processes in geophysics and geodynamics in a quantitative and authoritative manner. The second edition of this successful text:

provides the only unified treatment of the rheology of the Earth at this level, making it useful to students and researchers alike;
includes discussions of seismology, mantle convection and plate tectonics;
is completely up to date, providing a much needed account of thermal and mechanical processes in geodynamics.

Turbulence in Fluids (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)

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A very good book on Turbulence
An embarassement from every perspective

Turbulence in Fluids (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications)
M. Lesieur
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0792344162

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Turbulence in Fluids is an attempt to reconcile the theory of turbulence, too often presented in a formal, isolated mathematical context, with the general theory of fluid dynamics. It reviews, in a unifying manner, the main characteristics and general theorems of rotational fluids (liquids or gases), with applications to aerodynamics and geophysical fluid dynamics. Emphasis is placed both on unpredictability, mixing, and coherent vortices or structures. Transition to turbulence in wall or free-shear flows is considered both on the basis of linear-instability theory and of experiments or numerical simulations. Thermal convection is also studied. This third edition presents in a synthetic manner coherent vortices existing both in free or wall-bounded shear flows and in isotropic turbulence. A new mechanics of elementary vortices is built, involving spirals, dipoles, pairings, dislocations, longitudinal hairpins, streaks... It is seen how turbulence topology reacts to the action of stable stratification, rotation, separation or compressibility. The book discusses the phenomenological theories of isotropic turbulence and turbulent diffusion, both in Fourier and physical spaces. It emphasizes the use of two-point closures and stochastic models, a powerful tool allowing representation of strongly nonlinear actions. The role of helicity is considered. A theory of spectral eddy viscosity and backscatter is proposed. The latter phenomenon is shown to govern inverse cascades of passive scalars and small-scale uncertainty. The Renormalization-Group techniques are assessed. The concept of two-dimensional turbulence is looked at, as the simplest approximation of large-scale atmosphere and ocean dynamics. The latter is also studied using geostrophic-turbulence theory. New ideas on cyclogenesis in thermal fronts are presented. Numerous experimental, environmental and aerodynamic examples are provided. A systematic recourse is made to direct and large-eddy-numerical simulations (LES) as a tool for exploring turbulence media. A complete account of the latest dynamic and selective LES techniques is given in this edition. This monograph is a unique tool for graduate students and researchers in mechanical and aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, physics, meteorology, oceanography and astrophysics. It views the problem of turbulence in a very general way: statistical theories, intermittency, transition, coherent structures, singularities, unpredictability or deterministic chaos are only small pieces of the same puzzle, which have to be assembled.

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A very good book on Turbulence.......2003-06-23

I think that this book is quite good. Is the only book where I found a detailed treatment of the EDQNM model and also some less known models as RNG techniques. There are also good discussions on topics like geostrophic turbulence, enstrophy and rotating turbulence, that cannot be found in other "standard" books on general turbulence like the books of Pope or Mathieu or the "old" Hinze. This book is harder to read than the Pope's book or Tennekes&Lumley, which are more introductory. It is an excellent complement for that books, but I don't think is the best choice as your first turbulence book. My only complaint is the very high price.

An embarassement from every perspective.......2000-08-27

Lesieur's third edition of Turbulence in Fluids is embarassingly bad. First of all there was strictly no point in publishing a third edition of this book. The author has obviously done no proper scientific research for ten years, so that there are no particularly new results with respect to older editions of the book.

In fact the author claims that this book is suitable as a graduate course in advance fluid mechanics and the foreword of the book is suggestive of the author having published a third edition specially to make this point, to dump a paperback version on the market and thus to sell a few more copies.

You will also note the rapid, sketchy and mediocre addition of K41 theory in physical space following the remark made by U. Frisch on the omission of this topic in the earlier editions of this book.

The author latexed the book himself, but contrary to the earlier editions there are many misprints and incomplete sentences or even fragments of sentences out of place. This book cannot even pretend to be a draft.

One could go on and on on this very pathetic text. Fortunately it is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, whose high pricing policy is even more absurd regarding this text.

Although the last chapters on real world turbulence constitute an original initiative, again they are a total fiasco.

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The science of rheology remains a mystery to most people, even to some scientists. Some respectable dictionaries have been quite cavalier in their attitude to the science, the small Collins Gem dictionary, for example, being quite happy to inform us that a Rhea is an three-toed South American ostrich, whilst at the same time offering no definition of rheology. This maybe due to the fact that the science is interdisciplinary and does not fit well into any one of the historical disciplines.

This book contains an in-depth study of the history of rheology, beginning with the statements of Heraclitus, Confucius and the prophetess Deborah. It also emphasises the distinctive contributions of Newton, Hooke, Boltzmann, Maxwell, Kelvin and others, and culminates in the flourishing activity in the second half of this century.

Features of this book:

• Is the only book on the subject

• Prevents the rediscovery of results already made

• Will educate newcomers to the field to the rich heritage in even a relatively recent science like rheology.

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This book provides concise, up-to-date and easy-to-follow information on certain aspects of an ever important research area: multiphase flow in porous media. This flow type is of great significance in many petroleum and environmental engineering problems, such as in secondary and tertiary oil recovery, subsurface remediation and CO2 sequestration. This book contains a collection of selected papers (all refereed) from a number of well-known experts on multiphase flow. The papers describe both recent and state-of-the-art modeling and experimental techniques for study of multiphase flow phenomena in porous media. Specifically, the book analyses three advanced topics: upscaling, pore-scale modeling, and dynamic effects in multiphase flow in porous media. This will be an invaluable reference for the development of new theories and computer-based modeling techniques for solving realistic multiphase flow problems. Part of this book has already been published in a journal. Audience This book will be of interest to academics, researchers and consultants working in the area of flow in porous media.

Computational Methods in Water Resources

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Computational Methods in Water Resources
International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources 2 , R. J. Schotting , William G. Gray , and G. F. Pinder
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Pub Co
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ASIN: 0444509755

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Hardbound. These volumes contain the proceedings of CMWR2002, which was hosted by the Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences at Delft University of Technology. The interest in this meeting was truly overwhelming: around 230 papers from leading scientists were submitted and accepted for publication in the proceedings. The actual scope of the meeting was much broader than the title "Computational Methods in Water Resources" might suggest. Not only traditional hydrological topics like surface water and groundwater hydrology were covered, but also modern topics like coupled reactive transport, multiphase flow, pore-scale network modeling, remediation techniques, optimization, groundwater-surface water interactions and data assimilation. A quick glance through the Table of Contents of these two volumes immediately shows the richness of the material presented during the four days of the conference. New conceptual models, experimental methods, upscaling

Perspectives in Flow Control and Optimization (Advances in Design and Control)

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Perspectives in Flow Control and Optimization (Advances in Design and Control)
Max D. Gunzburger
Manufacturer: Society for Industrial Mathematics
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ASIN: 089871527X

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Flow control and optimization has been an important part of experimental flow science throughout the last century. As research in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) matured, CFD codes were routinely used for the simulation of fluid flows. Subsequently, mathematicians and engineers began examining the use of CFD algorithms and codes for optimization and control problems for fluid flows. The marriage of mature CFD methodologies with state-of-the-art optimization methods has become the center of activity in computational flow control and optimization. Perspectives in Flow Control and Optimization presents flow control and optimization as a subdiscipline of computational mathematics and computational engineering. It introduces the development and analysis of several approaches for solving flow control and optimization problems through the use of modern CFD and optimization methods.

The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Very deep discussion on deep Earth

The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Shun-Ichiro Karato
Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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ASIN: 0691095116

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The study of the structure and dynamics of Earth's deep interior represents one of the most active frontiers of Earth sciences. This book provides a definitive summary of current research in this field, which is revealing many surprises. In a thorough, immensely informed, yet easy-to-understand presentation, Shun-ichiro Karato deftly integrates the atomic-level description of Earth materials that mineral physics addresses with global-scale modeling and observations on mantle and core dynamics that are the purview of seismology and geodynamics. He depicts an Earth whose interior is as active as its surface, and whose processes in the deep interior often control surface dynamics.

The richly varied dynamic processes in Earth's deep interior can be understood only through a better understanding of the properties of materials under the conditions prevalent there, Karato emphasizes. Materials properties change dramatically in the deep interior, and this has decisive consequences on mantle convection, which is the engine of plate tectonics. The importance of the hydrogen in water in determining the structure of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary is discussed, as is the role of phase transformation in controlling the density and plastic flow properties of Earth's materials. Models for enigmatic observations such as deep earthquakes and the anisotropic structures at the center of the Earth are covered in detail. The Dynamic Structure of the Deep Earth is an indispensable text for advanced-level undergraduate students and graduate students of Earth sciences, materials sciences, and physics.

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Very deep discussion on deep Earth.......2004-05-12

The book explains the geodynamic of the Earth in three point of view: seismology, petrology and modelling. A good review for one who just started to study the deep Earth.

However, the author used 'zigzag' method in his book (as he mentioned in preface)that often I found myself skipping some pages to find related matter I wanted to know.

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This volume introduces particle image velocimetry (PIV), a technique for water wave measurement in the laboratory and in the open ocean. It discusses the turbulent dissipation, Reynolds stresses and vortical structures in boundary layers of the sea bed, as well as ships, ship wakes, propulsion hydrodynamics, cavitation and free surface waves. Upwelling behind crests of micro-breaking ocean surface waves (important for the exchange of greenhouse gases between air and water) and large amplitude internal solitons in the ocean are measured. The book includes velocities and accelerations in breaking ocean waves, run-up, interaction between strong waves and breakwaters, as well as a concise description of the state-of-the-art PIV technique.

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A "must have" book........2002-02-27

A very good text book on transient analysis in pressurized pipe systems.

Transient Analysis.......2000-04-29

Well written. Explains methods that can easily be adapted to write computer code for transient analysis of water in pipes.

Turbulence and Diffusion in the Atmosphere: Lectures in Environmental Sciences

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Turbulence and Diffusion in the Atmosphere: Lectures in Environmental Sciences
Alfred K. Blackadar
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540614060

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This book is written mainly for students of meteorology and other specializations of atmospheric science who have had no previous experience in the subject, but basic knowledge of hydrodynamics is assumed. It introduces turbulence theory and modeling related to the structure of the atmospheric boundary layer and includes methods for predicting the impact of industrial activities. The problems and examples have been selected with the intention of broadening the student's understanding of the atmosphere as well as his or her understanding of basic mathematics and the scientific method. In the final appendices the author discusses two models that students can run on a PC. Disks accompanying the book contain the supplementary computer programs.

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Not a textbook to sell back.......2003-08-02

All right. Granted, this book is used by many universities as a textbook for modern literature. Despite the stigma that implies, this is a very worthwhile read. It offers a good cross section of literature from asian to africa. (the african poem "the mulatta and the minotaur" by lorna goodison is a very good example of the quality of work presented) I recommend this for anyone looking to expand their appreciation of literature outside the western world.

Comprehensive Choice for Student, Teacher, and Buff.......2002-12-05

As far as a source for world literature that covers the range of everything from contemporary poetry to contemporary drama, there may be no equal to this book.

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