Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Gerald Schubert
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Basic concepts of computational geodynamics
- 2 Finite difference method
- 3 Finite volume method
- 4 Finite element method
- 5 Spectral methods
- 6 Numerical methods for solving linear algebraic equations
- 7 Numerical methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations
- 8 Data assimilation methods
- 9 Parallel computing
- 10 Modelling of geodynamic problems
- Appendix A Definitions and relations from vector and matrix algebra
- Appendix B Spherical coordinates
- Appendix C Freely available geodynamic modelling codes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Plates section
Subject index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Gerald Schubert
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Basic concepts of computational geodynamics
- 2 Finite difference method
- 3 Finite volume method
- 4 Finite element method
- 5 Spectral methods
- 6 Numerical methods for solving linear algebraic equations
- 7 Numerical methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations
- 8 Data assimilation methods
- 9 Parallel computing
- 10 Modelling of geodynamic problems
- Appendix A Definitions and relations from vector and matrix algebra
- Appendix B Spherical coordinates
- Appendix C Freely available geodynamic modelling codes
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
- Plates section
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- Computational Methods for Geodynamics , pp. 307 - 313Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010