Environmental Studies: Mathematical, Computational, and Statistical Analysis

Editors: Mary Fanett Wheeler



Environmental protection has become a universal issue with world-wide support. Environmental studies have now bridged the realms of academic research and societal applications. Mathematical modeling and large-scale data collection and analysis lie at the core of all environmental studies. Unfortunately, scientists, mathematicians, and engineers immersed in developing and applying environmental models, computational methods, statistical techniques and computational hardware advance with separate and often discordant paces. The volume is based on recent research designed to provide a much needed interdisciplinary forum for joint exploration of recent advances in this field.

Table of contents (19 chapters)

Front Matter

Random Porous Media Flow on Large 3-D Grids: Numerics, Performance, and Application to Homogenization

Modeling Transport Phenomena in Porous Media

Modelling of Compositional Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

A Particle-Grid Air Quality Modeling Approach

On the Equilibrium Equations of Poro-Elasticity

Eulerian-Lagrangian Localized Adjoint Methods for Reactive Transport in Groundwater

Stochastic Modeling of Rainfall

Incorporating Model Uncertainty into Spatial Predictions

Models for Flow and Transport through Porous Media Derived by Homogenization

Global Surface Temperature Changes Since the 1850s

A Multicomponent Self-Similar Characterization of Rainfall Fluctuations

Estimation of Kinetic Rate Coefficients for 2,4-D Biodegradation during Transport in Soil Columns

Modeling in Nuclear Waste Isolation: Approximate Solutions for Flow in Unsaturated Porous Media

Similarity Solutions for Gravity-Dominated Spreading of a Lens of Organic Contaminant

Application of Optimal Data Assimilation Techniques in Oceanography

Mathematical Physics of Infiltration on Flat and Sloping Topography

A Note Concerning Multivariate Total Positivity on the Simplex

Spatial Analysis for Environmental Studies

On Diagonalization of Coupled Hydrologic Transport and Geochemical Reaction Equations

Back Matter