Efficient Numerical Methods and Information-Processing Techniques for Modeling Hydro- and Environmental Systems

✍ Scribed by Professor Dr. Reinhard Hinkelmann (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 21
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Numerical simulation models have become indispensable in hydro- and environmental sciences and engineering. This monograph presents a general introduction to numerical simulation in environment water based on the solution of the equations for groundwater flow and transport processes, for multiphase and multicomponent flow and transport processes in the subsurface as well as for flow and transport processes in surface waters. It displays in detail the state of the art of discretization and stabilization methods (e.g. Finite-Difference, Finite-Element and Finite-Volume Methods), parallel methods and adaptive methods as well as fast solvers with particular focus on explaining the interactions of the different methods. The book gives a brief overview of various information-processing techniques and demonstrates the interactions of the numerical methods with the information-processing techniques in order to achieve efficient numerical simulations for a wide range of applications in environment water.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-17
Physical and mathematical model concepts....Pages 19-54
Efficient numerical methods....Pages 55-165
Efficient information-processing techniques....Pages 167-203
Applications....Pages 205-276
Summary and conclusions....Pages 277-282

✦ Subjects

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering; Hydrogeology; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science