Neil M. Ribe

Theoretical Mantle Dynamics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive, mathematically advanced treatment of the continuum mechanics of the Earth's mantle and the geodynamic models used to investigate it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9781107174467
• ISBN-10: 1107174465
• Artikelnr.: 52527295

Autorenporträt

Neil M. Ribe is a Senior Researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, working at the FAST laboratory in Orsay. He has held visiting positions at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, the Earthquake Research Institute of the University of Tokyo, and the University of Cambridge. His research interests include fluid mechanics, geodynamics, and the history of science, and he has contributed chapters in the Treatise on Geophysics (2015) and Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Formulating geodynamical model problems: three case studies
2. Dimensional and scaling analysis
3. Self-similarity and intermediate asymptotics
4. Slow viscous flow
5. Elasticity and viscoelasticity
6. Boundary-layer theory
7. Long-wave theories, I: lubrication theory and related techniques
8. Long-wave theories, II: shells, plates and sheets
9. Theory of two-phase flow
10. Hydrodynamic stability and thermal convection
11. Convection in more realistic systems
References
Index.