Fractals and Chaos in the Earth Sciences
Author: SAMMIS
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2013-11-22
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 3034861915
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Fractals and Chaos in the Earth Sciences
Author: Charles G. Sammis
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780817628789
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Author: Donald L. Turcotte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-07-13
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521567336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fundamental concepts of fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics, along with the related concepts of multifractals, self-similar time series, wavelets, and self-organized criticality, are introduced in this book, for a broad range of readers interested in complex natural phenomena. Now in a greatly expanded, second edition, this book relates fractals and chaos to a variety of geological and geophysical applications. All concepts are introduced at the lowest possible level of mathematics consistent with their understanding, so that the reader requires only a background in basic physics and mathematics.
Application of Fractals in Earth Sciences
Author: V.P. Dimri
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9789054102847
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text examines the emerging field of fractals and its applications in earth sciences. Topics covered include: concepts of fractal and multifractal chaos; the application of fractals in geophysics, geology, climate studies, and earthquake seismology.
Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics
Author: Donald Lawson Turcotte
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780521412704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book introduces the fundamental concepts of fractal geometry and chaotic dynamics. These concepts are then related to a variety of geological and geophysical problems, illustrating just what chaos theory and fractals really tell us and how they can be applied to the earth sciences. Petroleum and mineral reserves, earthquakes, mantle convection and magnetic field generation are among the earth's properties that come under scrutiny. This is the first book that covers these topics at an accessible level; the concepts are introduced at the lowest possible level of mathematics and are consistently understandable, so that the reader requires only a background in basic physics and mathematics. Problems are also included for the reader to solve.
Fractals in the Earth Sciences
Author: C.C. Barton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1489913971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fractals have changed the way we understand and study nature. This change has been brought about mainly by the work of B. B. Mandelbrot and his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Now here is a book that collects articles treating fractals in the earth sciences. The themes chosen span, as is appropriate for a discourse on fractals, many orders of magnitude; including earthquakes, ocean floor topography, fractures, faults, mineral crystallinity, gold and silver deposition. There are also chapters on dynamical processes that are fractal, such as rivers, earthquakes, and a paper on self-organized criticality. Many of the chapters discuss how to estimate fractal dimensions, Hurst exponents, and other scaling exponents. This book, in a way, represents a snapshot of a field in which fractals has brought inspiration and a fresh look at familiar subjects. New ideas and attempts to quantify the world we see around us are found throughout. Many of these ideas will grow and inspire further work, others will be superseded by new observations and insights, most probably with future contributions by the authors of these chapters.
Chaos and Fractals
Author: Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-06-29
Total Pages: 1013
ISBN-13: 1475747403
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences
Author: Didier Sornette
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13: 366204174X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A modern up-to-date introduction for readers outside statistical physics. It puts emphasis on a clear understanding of concepts and methods and provides the tools that can be of immediate use in applications.
Fractals in Science
Author: Armin Bunde
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-21
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 3642779530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A deeply detailed discussion of fractals in biology, heterogeneous chemistry, polymers, and the earth sciences. Beginning with a general introduction to fractal geometry it continues with eight chapters on self-organized criticality, rough surfaces and interfaces, random walks, chemical reactions, and fractals in chemisty, biology, and medicine. A special chapter entitled "Computer Exploration of Fractals, Chaos, and Cooperativity" presents computer demonstrations of fractal models: 14 programs are included on a 3 1/2" MS-DOS diskette which run on any PC with at least 1 MB RAM and a EGA or VGA graphics card, 16 colors.
Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geoscience
Author: Tom G. Blenkinsop
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 3034884303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Concepts and methods of fractal geometry penetrate various branches of human knowledge to an increasing degree. This tendency is particularly striking in the geosciences, because many processes occurring in and on the Earth result in time dependences and spatial patterns that have a fractal character. The contributions in this volume arose from the "3rd International Symposium on Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geosciences", held at Stara Lesna, Slovakia in June, 1997. The volume contains new ideas and applications of fractal geometry in such diverse branches of geoscience as engineering geology, the physics of the lithosphere (including faulting, seismicity, and fluid flow), and climate behavior.
