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Very Slow Flows of Solids - Basics of Modeling in Geodynamics and Glaciology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Very Slow Flows of Solids - Basics of Modeling in Geodynamics and Glaciology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Mechanics of Fluids and Transport Processes, 7
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This book is written primarily for Earth scientists faced with
problems in thermo mechanics such as the flow and evolution of
ice-sheets, convection currents in the mantle, isostatic rebound,
folding of strata or collapse of cavities in salt domes. Failure,
faults, seismic waves and all processes involving inertial terms
will not be dealt with. In general such scientists (graduate
students beginning a Ph. D. for instance) have too small a
background'in continuum mechanics and in numerical computation to
model conveniently these problems, which are not elementary at all.
Most of them are not linear, and therefore seldom dealt with in
treatises. If the study of reality were clearly cut into two
successive steps: first to make a physical model, setting up a
well-posed problem in thermo-mechanics, and second to solve it, the
obvious solution would be to find a specialist in computational
mechanics who could spend enough time on a problem which, although
maybe crucial for on-going fundamental research, has little
practical interest in general, and cannot be considered properly as
a noteworthy progress in Mechanics. But this is not the way Science
develops. There is a continuous dialectic between the building up
of a model and its mathematical treatment. The model should be
simple enough to be tractable, but not oversimplified. Its
sensitivity to the different components it is made of should be
investigated, and more thought is needed when the results
contradict hard facts.
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