Environmental Studies Mathematical, Computational, and Statistical Analysis [Paperback]

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.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.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 multicompolã$