Towards an Understanding of the Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries -- High-Resolution Geophysical Investigations Seaward of the Bann Estuary, Northern Ireland Coast -- A Seabed Classification Approach Based on Multiple Acoustic Sensors in the Hudson River Estuary -- Analysis of Land-Cover Shifts in Time and Their Significance -- Comparison of the Hydrodynamic Character of Thr…
Modeling Environment -- The Advective Transport Model PMPATH -- Tutorials -- Examples and Applications -- Supplementary Information.Processing Modflow is one of the most complete three-dimensional groundwater and transport simulation systems in the world. The text and the companion full-version software (PMWIN) offer a totally integrated simulation system. PMWIN comes with a professional graphi…
Theoretical Background -- Hydrogeochemical Modeling Programs -- Exercises -- Solutions.To understand hydrochemistry and to analyze natural as well as man-made impacts on aquatic systems, hydrogeochemical models have been used since the 1960’s and more frequently in recent times. Numerical groundwater flow, transport, and geochemical models are important tools besides classical deterministic a…
Bones Have Ears: -- Representative Microstructure Finite Elements for Collagen Gels -- Viscous Effects in Particulates -- Pore Roughness Effects on Highfrequency Permeability -- Influence of High-Frequency Acoustic Waves on the Flow of a Liquid through Porous Material: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation -- Large Strain Analysis of 3-D Viscoelastic Swelling of Charged Tissues and Gels --…
Percolation Theory -- Porous Media Primer for Physicists -- Specific Examples of Critical Path Analysis -- Basic Constitutive Relations for Unsaturated Media -- Pressure Saturation Curves and the Critical Volume Fraction of Percolation -- Applications of the Correlation Length -- Applications of the Cluster Statistics -- Effects of Multi-Scale Heterogeneity.The present monograph presents, for t…
Prologue -- Karl von Terzaghi’s Childhood, Youth and his Road to Practice and Theory -- Prelude to the Scandal -- Intermezzo -- The Scandal -- The Further Development -- Epilogue.The Engineer and the Scandal gives an in-depth study into an important part of the development of the Theory of Porous Media as well as the amazing story of the glittering life of Professor Karl von Terzaghi. It prov…
Intrinsic Noise -- Fundamental Concepts -- Physical Noise Sources -- Noise Parameters -- Noise Analysis of Linear Circuits -- Frequency Domain Noise Analysis of Linear Multiports -- Noise Models of Electronic Devices -- Interfering Signals -- External Noise -- Interference Reduction Methods -- Methods of Reducing Emission of Interfering Signals -- Interconnection Modeling and Crosstalk -- Metho…
Dielectric Properties of Water and Moist Substances -- Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Water and Aqueous Solutions -- Water in Polymers and Biopolymers Studied by Dielectric Techniques -- Thermal and Geometrical Effects on Bulk Permittivity of Porous Mixtures Containing Bound Water -- Model Systems for Materials with High Dielectric Losses in Aquametry -- Moisture Measurement in Multi-La…
Pore Scale Network Modelling -- Bundle-of-Tubes Model for Calculating Dynamic Effects in the Capillary-Pressure-Saturation Relationship -- Predictive Pore-Scale Modeling of Single and Multiphase Flow -- Digitally Reconstructed Porous Media: Transport and Sorption Properties -- Pore-Network Modeling of Isothermal Drying in Porous Media -- Phenomenological Meniscus Model for Two-Phase Flows in Po…
Design -- Installations in tunnels -- Investigation and description of the ground -- Heading -- Support -- Grouting and freezing -- The New Austrian Tunnelling Method -- Management of groundwater -- Application of compressed air -- Subaqueous tunnels -- Shafts -- Safety during construction -- Tunnelling Mechanics -- Behaviour of soil and rock -- Stress and deformation fields around a deep circu…