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By Taras Gerya

Numerical modelling of geodynamic methods was once predominantly the area of high-level mathematicians skilled in numerical and computational concepts. Now, for the 1st time, scholars and new researchers within the Earth Sciences can examine the fundamental thought and purposes from a unmarried, available reference textual content. Assuming simply minimum prerequisite mathematical education (simple linear algebra and derivatives) the writer offers an effective grounding in uncomplicated mathematical conception and methods, together with continuum mechanics and partial differential equations, sooner than introducing key numerical and modelling tools. eight well-documented, state-of–the-art visco-elasto-plastic, 2-D versions are then provided, which permit strong modelling of key dynamic procedures comparable to subduction, lithospheric extension, collision, slab break-off, intrusion emplacement, mantle convection and planetary center formation. Incorporating forty seven functional routines and sixty seven MATLAB examples (for which codes can be found on-line at www.cambridge.org/gerya), this textbook offers a simple creation for graduate classes or self-study, encouraging readers to scan with geodynamic models.

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