Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part II (Pageoph Topical Volumes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3764381302 ISBN 13: 9783764381301

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2007

Synopsis

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.

The present volume - Part II - incorporates computational environment and algorithms, data assimilation and understanding, model applications and iSERVO. Topics covered range from iSERVO and QuakeSim: implementing the international solid earth research virtual observatory by integrating computational grid and geographical information web services; LURR (Load-Unload Response Ratio) described in six papers involving this promising earthquake forecasting model; pattern informatics and phase dynamics and their applications, which was also a highlight in the Workshop; computational algorithms, including continuum damage models and visualization and analysis of geophysical datasets; evolution of mantle material; the state vector approach; and assimilation of data such as geodetic data, GPS data, and seismicity and laboratory experimental data.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764381302
• ISBN 13: 9783764381301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Yin Xiang-chu, Mora Peter, Donnellan Andrea, Matsu'ura Mitsuhiro