Geophysical Hazards

This book treats various geophysical techniques in order to quantify the gas hydrate reserves and their impact on environment. The primary goal of this book is to provide the state of art for gas hydrate exploration. The target audiences for this book are non-specialist from different branches of science, graduate students and researchers.

Authors: Luca, Ioana, Tai, Yih-Chin, Kuo, Chih-Yu
Laying a mathematical foundation for the readers to formulate thin flows over non-trivial topography
Stimulating practical examples and event back-calculations to demonstrate the applications of the models
Highly beneficial to engineers and public servants who are involved in hazard mitigation projects

Geophysical mass flows, such as landslides, avalanches or debris flows, are frequent mass movement processes in mountain areas and often cause disastrous damage. This book lays a foundation for formulating the depth-averaged equations describing the shallow geophysical mass flows over non-trivial topography. It consists of the detailed derivation of the model equations. The stimulating numerical examples demonstrate how the proposed models are applied. All this make this book accessible to a wide variety of readers, especially senior undergraduate and graduate students of fluid mechanics, civil engineering, applied mathematics, engineering geology, geophysics or engineers who are responsible for hazard management.