Chongbin Zhao & Bruce E. Hobbs 
Fundamentals of Computational Geoscience 
Numerical Methods and Algorithms

Geoscience is a fundamental natural science discipline dealing with the origin, evolutionary history and behaviour of the planet Earth. As a result of its complicated and complex nature, the Earth system not only provides the necessary materials and environment for mankind to live, but also brings many types of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, ?oods and tornadoes, to mention just a few. With the ever-increasing demand for improving our living standards, it has been recognized that the existing natural resources will be exhausted in the near future and that our living environments are, in fact, deteriorating. To maintain the sustainable development of our living standards and the further improvement of our living environments, an inevitable and challenging task that geoscientists are now confronting is how accurately to predict not only the occurrences of these natural disasters, but also the locations of large concealed natural resources in the deep Earth. For this reason, geoscientists must study the processes, rules and laws, by which the Earth system operates, instead of simply describing and observing g- science phenomena.

Table of Content

A Progressive Asymptotic Approach Procedure for Simulating Steady-State Natural Convective Problems in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media.- A Consistent Point-Searching Interpolation Algorithm for Simulating Coupled Problems between Deformation, Pore-Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer and Mass Transport Processes in Hydrothemal Systems.- A Term Splitting Algorithm for Simulating Fluid-Rock Interaction Problems in Fluid-Saturated Hydrothermal Systems of Subcritical Zhao Numbers.- A Segregated Algorithm for Simulating Chemical Dissolution Front Instabilities in Fluid-Saturated Porous Rocks.- A Decoupling Procedure for Simulating Fluid Mixing, Heat Transfer and Non-Equilibrium Redox Chemical Reactions in Fluid-Saturated Porous Rocks.- An Equivalent Source Algorithm for Simulating Thermal and Chemical Effects of Intruded Magma Solidification Problems.- The Particle Simulation Method for Dealing with Spontaneous Crack Generation Problems in Large-Scale Geological Systems.