Earth Dynamics: Deformations and Oscillations of the Rotating Earth

ISBN-13: 9781108445825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 553 str.

D. E. Smylie

Opis

A rigorous overview of the solid Earth's dynamical behaviour, explaining the theory with methodology and online freeware for numerical implementation.

Recenzje

'Earth Dynamics is a scholarly work. … people who have a strong background in differential equations and a foundational understanding of the more advanced nature of our planet's motions will enjoy what Smylie has to say. … Smylie's writing is easy to follow with this prior knowledge [of physics], and having the software available from the website makes it easy to verify his work. … Throughout the book Smylie's writing is clear and well organized. His formulae are straightforward. This book would be a sound foundation for a graduate level course on terrestrial dynamics. … it provides a welcome challenge to those of us who enjoy a bit more meat in our science reading. If you are a person who has a strong background in higher mathematics and physics, then you might enjoy this scholarly tome.' Woodrow W. Grizzle III, Planetarian

Spis treści

1. Introduction and theoretical background; 2. Time sequence and spectral analysis; 3. Earth deformations; 4. Earth's rotation: observations and theory; 5. Earth's figure and gravitation; 6. Rotating fluids and the outer core; 7. The subseismic equation and boundary conditions; 8. Variational methods and core modes; 9. Static deformations and dislocation theory; Appendix A. Elementary results from vector analysis; Appendix B. Properties of Legendre functions; Appendix C. Numerical Earth models; References; Fortran index; Subject index.