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Numerical Ecology (Developments in Environmental Modelling)
Pierre Legendre Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0444892508 |
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The book describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. These methods are derived from the fields of mathematical physics, parametric and nonparametric statistics, information theory, numerical taxonomy, archaeology, psychometry, sociometry, econometry and others. Compared to the first edition of Numerical Ecology, this second edition includes three new chapters, dealing with the analysis of semiquantitative data, canonical analysis and spatial analysis. New sections have been added to almost all other chapters. There are sections listing available computer programs and packages at the end of several chapters. As in the previous English and French editions, there are numerous examples from the ecological literature, and the choice of methods is facilitated by several synoptic tables.Customer Reviews:
Obligatory reading!.......2005-11-04
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Numerical Adventures with Geochemical Cycles
James C. G. Walker Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195045203 |
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The dynamic, evolving Earth, and the mathematical representation of its geochemical changes are the subject of this timely, helpful handbook. Global warming, changes in the ocean, and the effects of fossil fuel combustion are just a few of the phenomena that make the development of geochemical models critical. But what computational methods will help to accurately carry out this task? This new text teaches the methodology of computational simulation of environmental change. The author presents interesting applications of his methods to describe the response of the ocean and atmosphere to the infusion of pollutants, the effect of evaporation on seawater composition, climate change, and many other aspects of the Earth's evolving ecosystem. He also presents simple approaches for solving non-linear systems, calculating isotope ratios, and dealing with chains of identical reservoirs. With creative programs that can be executed on any personal computer, Walker offers earth scientists the techniques necessary to address the key problems in their field.Customer Reviews:
Robust Practical Modeling methods with code........2005-11-20
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Applied Flow and Solute Transport Modeling in Aquifers: Fundamental Principles and Analytical and Numerical Methods
Vedat Batu Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849335744 |
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Over recent years, important contributions on the topic of solving various aquifer problems have been presented in numerous papers and reports. The scattered and wide-ranging nature of this information has made finding solutions and best practices difficult. Comprehensive and self-contained, Applied Flow and Solute Transport Modeling in Aquifers compiles the scattered literature on the topic into a single-source reference of the most up-to-date information in the field. Based on Dr. Batu's 20 years of practical experience tackling aquifer problems in a myriad of settings, the book addresses essentially all currently applied aquifer flow and contaminant transport solutions, combines theory with practical applications, covers both analytical and numerical solutions, and includes solutions to real world contaminant transport modeling scenarios. Batu approaches the subject from the practicing consultant's point of view and elucidates the difficulties real world professionals have faced in solving aquifer flow and contamination problems. The author simplifies the necessary theoretical background as much as possible and provides all derivational details of the theoretical background as worked examples. He uses this method to explore how the derivations were generated for those who need to know while allowing others to easily skip them and still benefit and learn from the practical applications of the mathematical approaches. Containing 51 tables and 323 figures, the book covers both the breadth and the depth of currently applied aquifer flow and contaminant transport modeling solutions.
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Advances in Dynamic Game Theory: Numerical Methods, Algorithms, and Applications to Ecology and Economics (Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games)
Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Accessories:
ASIN: 0817643990 |
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This collection of selected contributions gives an account of recent developments in dynamic game theory and its applications, covering both theoretical advances and new applications of dynamic games in such areas as pursuit-evasion games, ecology, and economics. Written by experts in their respective disciplines, the chapters are an outgrowth of presentations from the 11th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications.
Key topics covered include:
* stochastic and differential games
* dynamic games and their applications in various areas, such as ecology and economics
* numerical methods and algorithms in dynamic games
* zero- and nonzero-sum games
* pursuit-evasion games
* evolutionary game theory and applications
The work will serve as a state-of-the art account of recent advances in dynamic game theory and its applications for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in applied mathematics, mathematical finance, and engineering.
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Computational and Numerical Challanges in Environmental Modeling (Studies in Computational Mathematics)
Zahari Zlatev Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0444522093 |
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Many large mathematical models, not only models arising and used in environmental studies, are described by systems of partial differential equations. The discretization of the spatial derivatives in such models leads to the solution of very large systems of ordinary differential equations. These systems contain many millions of equations and have to be handled over large time intervals by applying many time-steps (up to several hundred thousand time-steps). Furthermore, many scenarios are as a rule to be run. This explains the fact that the computational tasks in this situation are enormous. Therefore, it is necessary to select fast numerical methods; to develop parallel codes and, what is most important when the problems solved are very large to organize the computational process in a proper way.
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Developments in Numerical Ecology (NATO ASI series. Series G, Ecological sciences)
Manufacturer: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3540160868 |
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Earthquake Prediction - State of the Art (International Series of Numerical Mathematics)
Renata Dmowska Manufacturer: Birkhauser ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3764351012 |
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Numerical Schemes for Conservation Laws (Wiley-Teubner Series, Advances in Numerical Mathematics)
Dietmar Kröner Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471967939 |
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This book systematically studies upwind methods for initial value problems for scalar conservation laws in one- and multidimensions. The mathematical theory of convergence theory and of a priori error estimates is presented in detail for structure (finite difference methods) as well as for unstructured grids (finite volume methods). Higher order schemes are also included. In the second part of the book the algorithms for scalar equations are generalized into systems of conversation laws in one- and multidimensions. The most powerful schemes for the discretization of systems are described and numerical examples are presented. In particular, local grid refinement has been taken into account. The initial boundary value problem is also considered for linear systems and nonlinear scalar conservation laws.
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Computational Methods in Water Resources XII--Volume 2, Computational Methods in Surface and Ground Water Transport
Carlos A. Brebbia , and George F. Pinder Manufacturer: Computational Mechanics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1853126535 |
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This book contains part of the Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources, which was held in Crete, Greece, June 15-19, 1998. The proceedings present the latest developments and applications of computational techniques in surface and subsurface hydrology, including mathematical and numerical modeling of physical, biological and chemical processes related to water, as well as other associated topics, such as algorithmic methodologies, parameter estimation and software development. Multiphase flow (11 papers): True-to-mechanism macroscopic theory of steady state two phase flow in porous media (A. C. Payatakes & M. S. Valavanides) Phase diagram of fully developed drainage in porous media (Y. C. Yortsos) Temperature dependent multiphase flow and transport (J. F. Sykes, A. G. Merry & J. Zhu) Improved macroscopic equations of two-phase flow in porous media based on new models of the capillary pressure and relative permeability (C. D. Taskiroglou, D. G. Avraam & A. C. Payatakes) Comparison of different discretization techniques for multiphase flow in heterogeneous media (R. Helmig & R. Huber) Two-phase flow in stratified porous media--effective parameters and constitutive relationships (C. Braun, M. Hassanizabeh & R. Helmig) Numerical fractional flow modelling of inhomogeneous air sparging (E. F. Kaasschieter, G. J. Mulder & J. D. van der Werff ten Bosch) Domain decomposition mixed methods for multiphase groundwater flow in multiblock aquifers (I. Yotov & M. F. Wheeler) The Bi-CGSTAB method with red-black Gauss-Seidel preconditioner applied to the hermite collocation discretization of subsurface multiphase flow and transport problems (S. H. Brill, J. F. Guarnaccia & G. F. Pinder) Simulation of multiphase and compositional flow in porous media (R. Huber & R. Helmig Mixing regimes and the scale up problem for multiphase flow in porous media (F. Furtado & F. Pereira). Fractured Porous Media (12 papers): Evaluating the capability of scale dependent multi-continuum modeling in fractured permeable formations based on field, laboratory and numerical experiments (D. Jansen, C. Forkel, V. Lagendijk & J. Kongeter) Flow and transport processes in fractured porous media (L. Neunhauserer, A. Fuchs, A. Hemminger & R. Helmig) Simulation of solute transport in fractured porous media using the symmetrical streamline stabilization (E. Wendland) Influence of matrix diffusion on solute transport in a three dimensional fracture network (A. Genty, C. Grenier, E. Mouche & E. Tevissen) Automatic grid adaptation for subsurface fluid flow problems--application to fractured-porous reservoirs (R. Kaiser, O. Kolditz, W. Zielke) Numerical simulation of subsurface disposal of industrial residues in coal mines (C. Konig & T. Himmelsbach) Wellhead protection area delineation using the random walkmethod: application to fractured rocks (S. Chevalier, J. Tournebize & O. Banton) Numerical generation of porous structure with fractal properties (H. Sun & M. Koch) A theoretical model for relative permeabilities in two-phase
flow in a fracture (M. Fourar, C. Moyne & R. Lenormand) Numerical experiments on the probability of seepage into underground openings in heterogeneous fractured rock (J. Birkholzer, G. Li, C. F. Tsang & Y. Tsang); Interaction between fluid flow and deformation of porous fractured media (B. Rosen & C. Konig). Coastal and estuarine flow (12 papers): Coastal dynamics of the eastern Po Plain, Italy, due to global climate change and land subsidence (G. Gambolati) Finite element modeling of saltwater intrusion in the Venice aquifer system (A. Bixio, M. Putti, L. Tosi, L. Carbognin & G. Gambolati) Modeling saltwater intrusion by a 3-D sharp interface finite element model (M. A. Sbai, A. Larabi & F. De Smedt) Modeling seawater intrusion in the Korba aquifer (Tunisia) (G. Lecca, I. Khlaifi, J. Tarhouni, & C. Paniconi) Benchmark solutions for seawater-freshwater interface problems in aquifers of random permeability distribution (D. G. Zeitoun & G. Dagan) Simulating the spread and fate of sea lice larvae from an infested Atlantic salmon farm on the west coast of Ireland (A. M. Cawley) Modeling depth-integrated coastal pollution using a Lagrangian particle technique (R. V. Pearson & R. W. Barber) Modeling strongly coupled groundwater flow and solute transport in porous medium: re-evaluation of the salt dome flow problem (A. Youne, Ph. Ackerer & R. Mose) Numerical analyses of hydrological and geological effects on seawater intrusion (W.-F. Tsai & C.-C. Kou) SALTFRES; a mixed finite element model for 3-D variable density groundwater flow and contaminant transport code (D. G. Zeitoun) Numerical simulation of wind-induced flow in the Gulf of Thermaikos using a two-dimensional boundary-fitted circulation model (N. Volakos, L. J. Scott & R. W. Barber) Modeling on the high-concentration water intrusion in Hanting-Changyi area, China (J. C. Wu, Y. Q. Xue, Y. X. Zhang, y. Zhang & M. Ye). Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems (12 papers): Stochastic approaches to inverse problems (P. K. Kitanidis) Multi-point BME space/time mapping of environmental variables (G. Christakos) The stochastic inverse problem in groundwater hydrology: a Kalman filter approach (F. Konecny) A Bayesian approach to electrical resistance tomography data
inversion (M. Yu & D. E. Dougherty) Hierarchical artificial neural network for regionalized cokriging (P. A. Sullivan D. M. Rizzo & D. E. Dougherty) Performance characteristics of simulated annealing to build Markov fields (K. P. Parks & L. R. Bentley) 3-D computed subsurface tomography (M. J. Eppstein & D. E. Dougherty) Sensitivity analysis in parameter estimation (A. Villalobos, J. Collado & A. Wagner) Parameter estimation for unsaturated flow models using sensitivity analysis (G. Nutzmann & M. Thiele) Multiscale optimization for aquifer parameter identification with noisy data (S. Gomez, A. Perez & R. M. Alvarez) Verification of the Hydrodynamic Adsorption Model (HAM)--comparison with experimental data (G. Langergraber, W. Loiskandl, A. Weingartner & H. Schachner) A numerical investigation of the slope current along the Western European margin (R. J. J. Neves, H. S. Coelho, P. C. Leitao,
H. Martins & A. Santos). Free Surface Flow (12 papers): An improved time marching algorithm for GWC shallow water models (R. L. Kolar, J. P. Looper, J. J. Westerink, W. G. Gray) Numerical simulation and experimental verification of dam-break flows with shocks (F. Aureli, P. Mignosa & M. Tomirotti) Mass conservation in shallow water equation storm surge computations (J. P. Laible) Infiltration in shallow soils overlying fractured bedrock (S. A. Stothoff) A numerical scheme for free-surface flow modeling based on kinetic theory (J. Q. Deng & M. S. Ghidaoui) Mesh adaption strategies for steady shallow water flow (M. Marrocu & D. Ambrosi) Adaptive moving grid solutions of a shallow-water transport model with steep vertical gradients (P. Zegeling, M. Borsboom & J. van Kester) Numerical modeling of the free surface flow near the mouth of the Balsas river and comparison with a physical model (E. Aguilar, A. Ramirez, J. Aparicio & J. Maldonado) Computation of 2D free-surface flow and the shape of the control volume (M. Berezowsky, A. A. Jimenez & R. Mendoza) Adaptive grid techniques for baroclinic tidal models (A. B. Fortunato & A. Oliveira) Application of turbulence two-equation model to depth-averaged simulation and prediction of tidal current, temperature, COD and BOD distributions (L. Yu & A. M. Righetto) Validation of ILLUDAS in four drainage basins in Florida (V. A. Tsihrintzis & C. B. Sidan). Surface transport (6 papers): Far field modelling of a submerged outfall (I. K. Tsanis) Contributions towards the prediction of velocity distribution in open channel flows (P. C. Yannopoulos & A. C. Demetracopoulos) On the role of non-conservative flow fields on transport mass conversation (A. Oliveira, A. M. Baptista & A. B. Fortunato) On solid transport in suspension in a waterway: a two-dimensional numerical approach (N. Hadj-Rabia, S. Mekbel & M. Bouhadef) Modeling water flow and chemical and sediment transport in watershed systems (H.-P. Cheng, G.,-T. Yeh & H.-C. Lin) Study on the motion equation for high temperature variation and applying it to the ATES experiment in Shanghai (Z. Yong, Y. Xue, C. Xie, J. Wu). Flows in Rivers, Lakes, Lagoons, Pipes (5 papers): Berecik dam & HEPP downstream river arrangement (R. Naderer & G. Scharler) Major uncertainties in the prediction of bed evolution behind a broyne (M. Yasi & R. J. Keller) Lagoon hydrology and groundwater circulations: a compute study (D. Broc, A. M. Leclerc & P. Jean-Baptiste) An alternative tool to reservoir eutrophication index: fuzzy synthetic evaluation (R.-S. Lu, J.-. Hu & S.-L. Lo) Three-dimensional simulation of cavitating flows in piping
systems (R. Kalsinc, R. Reitbauer & H. Knoblauch). Numerical Methods (14 papers): A Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method for the nonlinear advection-diffusion-reaction equation (A. A. Aldama & V. Arroyo) On the modified Eulerian-Lagrangian method for solving coupled balance equations in porous media (S. Sorek, V. Borisov & A. Yakirevich) Newton & Quasi-Newton methods for the non-linear Richard's equation (C. Fassimo & G. Manzini) Matrix storage and matrix-vector product in Finite Elements (J.-M. Hervouet & J.-M. Janin) Groundwater pollutant transport modelling based on the finite element technique with M-matrix preconditioning (F. de Smedt & M. A. Shai) A Newton-Krylov-multigrid solver for variably saturated flow problems (C. S. Woodward) Mixed finite-element solution of reaction-diffusion equations using a two-grid method (L. Wu, M. B. Allen & E.-J. Park) A taut spline-based Eulerian-Lagrangian method for solving heterogeneous transport problems (F. Ruan & D. McLaughlin) Mixed Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions for finite element flow simulations in complex geometries (C. Forkel, C. Schweim, O. Bergen, V. Spork & J. Kongster) Dynamically adaptive upwind finite volume methods for contaminant transport (C. Dawson, S. Bryant & R. Kirby) Incorporating the multigrid method with the adaptive local grid refinement to solve 3-D subsurface density-dependent flow and transport equations (M. H. Li, H. P. Cheng & G. T. Yeh) A new formulations of the mixed finite element method for solving elliptic and parabolic PDE with triangular elements (A. Younes, R. Mose & P. Ackerer) Optimal upwinding of the N+2 Petrov-Galerkin method based upon frequency fitting (S.-U. Choi & C. Ray) Application of the sentinel method in a groundwater transport model (M.-E. Stoeckel, R. Mose & P. Ackerer).
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Field Studies and Numerical Modeling of Unsaturated Flow in the Chihuahuan Desert, Texas (Report of Investigations, No 199)
Bridget R. Scanlon , Fred P. Wang , and Bernd C. Richter Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Bureau of Economic ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9991386920 |
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