Pythonic Geodynamics Implementations for Fast Computing /

• Main Author: Morra, Gabriele (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences,
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Geology-Statistical methods.; Mathematical physics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Quantitative Geology.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

This book addresses students and young researchers who want to learn to use numerical modeling to solve problems in geodynamics. Intended as an easy-to-use and self-learning guide, readers only need a basic background in calculus to approach most of the material. The book difficulty increases very g...

Table of Contents:

• Bird's eye view
• Visualization
• Fast Python: NumPy and Cython
• Mechanics I: Kinematics
• Mechanics II: Newtonian Dynamics
• Insights on the physics of Stokes Flow
• Lagrangian Transport
• Operator Formulation
• Laplacian Operator and Diffusion
• Beyond Linearity
• Trees, Particles and Boundaries
• Applications to Geodynamics
• The future.