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Shallow Geophysical Mass Flows down Arbitrary Topography: Model Equations in Topography-fitted Coordinates, Numerical Simulation and Back-calculations of Disastrous Events

By Ioana Luca , Yih-Chin Tai , Chih-Yu Kuo (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-02626-8, 978-3-319-02627-5
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-02627-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8166499 bytes)
Series
Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics
Edition
1
Pages
XIV, 282\286
Time added
2016-07-20 04:00:00
FoundationsGeology; Quantitative Geology; Natural Hazards; GeHydraulics

Description

Geophysical mass flows, such as landslides, avalanches or debris flows, are frequent mass movement processes in mountain areas and often cause disastrous damage. This book lays a foundation for formulating the depth-averaged equations describing the shallow geophysical mass flows over non-trivial topography. It consists of the detailed derivation of the model equations. The stimulating numerical examples demonstrate how the proposed models are applied. All this make this book accessible to a wide variety of readers, especially senior undergraduate and graduate students of fluid mechanics, civil engineering, applied mathematics, engineering geology, geophysics or engineers who are responsible for hazard management.

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