This book provides a concise overview of the recent development in geocomputing, which covers the model construction and result visualisation, advanced computational theory and high performance software development on supercomputers and their applications in simulating geodynamics, crustal dynamics, earthquakes, tsunami and rock physics spanning different scales.
Author(s): Huilin Xing (auth.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 119
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: +OCR
Pages: 325
Tags: Computer Applications in Earth Sciences; Simulation and Modeling
Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
First Steps Towards Modeling a Multi-Scale Earth System....Pages 1-25
3D Mesh Generation in Geocomputing....Pages 27-64
Strategies for Preconditioning Methods of Parallel Iterative Solvers for Finite-Element Applications in Geophysics....Pages 65-106
Algorithms for Optimizing Rheology and Loading Forces in Finite Element Models of Lithospheric Deformation....Pages 119-138
Mantle Dynamics – A Case Study....Pages 139-181
The ESyS_Particle: A New 3-D Discrete Element Model with Single Particle Rotation....Pages 183-228
The TeraShake Computational Platform for Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations....Pages 229-277
Probabilistic Forecast of Tsunami Hazards along Chinese Coast....Pages 279-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-325