Physics of Lakes Volume 1: Foundation of the Mathematical and Physical Background /

• Main Authors: Hutter, Kolumban (Author), Wang, Yongqi (Author), Chubarenko, Irina P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Continuum physics.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

This first volume in the treatise on the Physics of Lakes deals with the formulation of the mathematical and physical background. A large number of lakes on Earth are described, presenting their morphology as well as the causes of their response to the driving environment. Because the physics of lak...

Table of Contents:

• Mathematical Prerequisites
• A Brief Review of the Basic Thermomechanical Laws of Classical Physics
• Fundamental Equations of Lake Hydrodynamics
• Conservation of Angular Momentum - Vorticity
• Turbulence Modelling
• Introduction to Linear Waves
• The Role of the Distribution of Mass within Water Bodies on Earth
• Vertical Structure of Wind-induced Currents in Homogenous and Stratified Waters
• Phenomenological Coefficients of Water.