Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the EnvironmentB. STRAUGHAN, R. GREVE, H. EHRENTRAUT and Y. WANG (Eds.) PrefaceThis book is dedicated to Professor Kolumban Hutter of the Darmstadt University of Technology on the occasion of his 60th birthday on 22 January 2001. Professor Hutter graduated in Civil Engineering from the ETH Zurich, and then worked in industry-related consulting at the Institute of Mechanics and the Laboratory of Hydraulics and Soil Mechanics at the ETH, before embarking on a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Cornell University. He duly completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Y. H. Pao, working in the field of the electrodynamics of continuous media. After his PhD, Professor Hutter returned to Europe where he worked as a senior scientist at the Laboratory for Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology, ETH Zurich, being involved in glacier flow, physical limnology, avalanche research and granular media. At the same time he maintained scientific contact with the Mechanics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology. In both European cities he received a habilitation degree: In Vienna for Mechanics, in Zurich for Theoretical Glaciology and Limnology. Since 1987 Professor Hutter has been the successor to Professor Becker at the Department of Mechanics, Darmstadt University of Technology. Professor Hutter's work has always been relevant to real life, and a feature of the man is his attention to experiments and matching theory. He has built up an internationally respected laboratory in Darmstadt which concentrates on both experimental and theoretical aspects. Professor Hutter has become a renowned expert in ice physics and glaciology, and his book on Theoretical Glaciology is one of the most widely quoted in the field. For several years he was Scientific Editor of the prestigious Journal of Glaciology. In addition to glaciology, Professor Hutter has continued to produce fundamental contributions in the electrodynamics of continuous media, and to produce work of the finest calibre in the fields of soil mechanics, porous media, granular flows, avalanche dynamics, climatology, and lake physics. He is the Managing Editor of the journal Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics. This volume represents a collection of articles in the field of Professor Hutter's interests, namely applied continuum mechanics, soil mechanics and porous media, glacier and ice dynamics, and climatology and lake physics. The articles are by people well respected in their fields, and it is a pleasure to honour Professor Hutter with this book.
ContentsPart I Applied Continuum MechanicsNumerical Investigation of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas Described by
a Variable Eddington Factor Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Thermodynamicists's View Asymptotic and Other Properties of Some Nonlinear Diffusion Models The Binary Mixtures of Euler Fluids: A Unified Theory of Second Sound Phenomena Continuously Distributed Control of Plates by Electric Networks with PZT
Actuators Part II Soil Mechanics and Porous MediaHydraulic Theory for a Frictional Debris Flow on a Collisional Shear Layer The Beavers and Joseph Condition for Velocity Slip at the Surface of a Porous
Medium Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media - Application to Unsaturated Soils Part III Glacier and Ice DynamicsModelling Iceberg Drift and Ice-Rafted Sedimentation Modelling the Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets Notes on Basic Glaciological Computational Methods and Algorithms Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice Influence of Bed Topography on Steady Plane Ice Sheet Flow Part IV Climatology and Lake PhysicsGlacial Isostasy: Models for the Response of the Earth to Varying Ice Loads Arctic Sea Ice and Its Role in Climate Variability and Change The Role of Simple Models in Understanding Climate Change Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced
Circulations in Lake Constance Springer, Berlin, Germany etc., 393 pp. (2001). ISBN: 3-540-41660-9. |
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