Continuum Mechanics and Applications in Geophysics and the Environment

I Applied Continuum Mechanics

- Numerical Investigation of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas Described by a Variable Eddington Factor

- Anisotropic Fluids: From Liquid Crystals to Granular Materials

- Integration and Segregation in a Population - A Thermodynamicists's View

- Asymptotic and Other Properties of Some Nonlinear Diffusion Models

- The Binary Mixtures of Euler Fluids: A Unified Theory of Second Sound Phenomena

- Continuously Distributed Control of Plates by Electric Networks with PZT Actuators

II Soil Mechanics and Porous Media

- Hydraulic Theory for a Frictional Debris Flow on a Collisional Shear Layer

- The Beavers and Joseph Condition for Velocity Slip at the Surface of a Porous Medium

- Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues

- Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media - Application to Unsaturated Soils

III Glacier and Ice Dynamics

- Modelling Iceberg Drift and Ice-Rafted Sedimentation

- Modelling the Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets

- Notes on Basic Glaciological Computational Methods and Algorithms

- Constitutive Modelling and Flow Simulation of Anisotropic Polar Ice

- Influence of Bed Topography on Steady Plane Ice Sheet Flow

IV Climatology and Lake Physics

- Glacial Isostasy: Models for the Response of the Earth to Varying Ice Loads

- Arctic Sea Ice and Its Role in Climate Variability and Change

- The Role of Simple Models in Understanding Climate Change

- Comparing Different Numerical Treatments of Advection Terms for Wind-Induced Circulations in Lake Constance

"[...] primarily intended for active researchers interested in geophysical modeling. [...] Although most of the material can be found in other places, this is a nice collection and should be a welcome addition to one's personal library." (Applied Mechanics Review, 55/4, 2002)