Computational Challenges in the Geosciences

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dawson, Clint. (Editor), Gerritsen, Margot. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, 156
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Physical geography.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Meteorology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7434-0

Computational Challenges in the Geosciences addresses a cross-section of grand challenge problems arising in geoscience applications, including groundwater and petroleum reservoir simulation, hurricane storm surge, oceanography, volcanic eruptions and landslides, and tsunamis.� Each of these applica...

Table of Contents:

• Physical and Computational Issues in the Numerical Modeling of Ocean Circulation, R.L. Higdon
• Modeling Hazardous, Free-Surface Geophysical Flows with Depth-Averaged Hyperbolic Systems and Adaptive Numerical Methods, D.L. George
• Real-Time Forecasting and Visualization of Hurricane Waves and Storm Surge using SWAN+ADCIRC and FigureGen, J.C. Dietrich, C.N. Dawson, J.M. Proft, M.T. Howard, G. Wells, J.G. Fleming, R.A. Luettich, Jr., J.J. Westerink, Z. Cobell, M. Vitse, H. Lander, B.O. Blanton, C.M. Szpilka, J.H. Atkinson
• Methane in Surbsurface: Mathematical� Modeling and Computational Challenges, M. Peszynska
• Fast Algorithms for Bayesian Inversion, S. Ambikasaran, A. K. Saibaba, E.F. Darve and P.K. Kitanidis
• Modeling Spatial and Structural Uncertainty in the Subsurface , M. Gerritsen and J. Caers.