Geological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-surface Flow and Reactions [Hardcover]

Owen M. Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 23, 2009

This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening 18 years between the two, significant advances have been made to our understanding of subterranean flow, especially through the vast amount of research into underground storage of nuclear waste and aquifer pollution. This new book integrates and extends these modern ideas and techniques and applies them to the physics and chemistry of sub-surface flows in water-saturated, sandy and rocky media. It describes essential scientific concepts and tools for hydrologists and public health ecologists concerned with present day flow and transport, and also for geologists who interpret present day patterns of mineralization in terms of fluid flow in the distant past. The book is ideal for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, and aqueous geochemistry.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Praise for Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks: "Quite an excellent and mentally filling repast....would make for an excellent year-long graduate course in quantitative geodynamic processes....This book provides a great wealth of techniques for handling problems associated with subsurface flow, and excellent insights into methods, procedures, and basic understanding. I could only wish that all books (including my own) could be written with such clarity of thought and word craft." Ian Lerche, Geophysics

"...a truly good book that I can recommend to graduate students and researchers seriously interested in understanding rock-fluid interactions and the patterns that result." Bernard P. Boudreau, Geochimica et Cosmochimica

"...an extremely well-written and thought-provoking book, which contains many results not previously published. It is likely to have considerable influence on future research." Herbert E. Huppert, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

"...summarizes flow and reaction fundamentals and applications of these fundamentals in subsurface systems. In addition to its function as a textbook, this monograph will also be useful for self-study or as a general background reference for those in related fields." Cass T. Miller, American Scientist

"...an excellent text that will likely become a mainstay in graduate courses in environmental fluid mechanics, hyrogeology, geophysics, and petroleum geology." - Matthew Waterman, The Geoscientist

"Owen Phillips' prose is lucid and graceful and the book is a pleasure to read. I read the entire book in only four sittings-a new personal record for science texts. A hallmark of Dr. Phillips' approach is simple, physically insightful, and often analytically tractable mathematical descriptions. ... [This book] t will definitely find a prominent place on my own bookshelf as a useful guide to first-order quantitative approaches." - S. E. Ingebritsen, American Journal of Science

Book Description

This book describes essential scientific concepts and tools for hydrologists and public health ecologists concerned with fluid flow, transport and contamination in rocks and sediments, and for geologists who interpret patterns of mineralization. It is ideal for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, and aqueous geochemistry.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 298 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (February 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521865557
• ISBN-13: 978-0521865555
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,216,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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