Dynamics of Earth's Fluid System

Shivendra Nath Rai, D.V. Ramana, A. Manglik, all of the National Geophysical Research Institute Uppal Road, Hyderabad, India.

• Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 1.1 Earth's fluid systems: An introduction 2. Elasticity and faulting 2.1 Theory of elasticity 2.2 Earthquake faulting 2.3 Flexure of thin elastic plates 3. Porous media flow 3.1 Groundwater flow modelling 3.2 Modeling of groundwater flow in an unconfined aquifer 3.3 Reservoir Triggered Seismicity (RTS): The role of reservoir loading, fluid pressure and pore pressure diffusion 3.4 Modeling geometrical shape of volcanic constructs 4. Heal: and mass transport 4.1 Fleat and mass transport modeling 4.2 Thermal evolution of lithosphere in presence of uplift/erosion 4.3 Effect of lateral fluid flow on thermal structure of crust 4.4 Moving phase boundary problems and thermal modeling 4.5 Stochastic modeling of the subsurface temperature distribution 5. Lithospheric deformation 5.1 Rheological modeling and deformation of continental lithosphere 5.2 Plate tectonics - Some recent results, questions, and mechanisms 6. Fluid mechanics 6.1 An introduction to the Finite Element Method 6.2 Finite element models of flows of viscous incompressible fluids 6.3 Thermal convection in the Mantle: Modeling Aspects 7. Core dynamics 7.1 Magnetohydrodynamics of the earth's core.