E-PSCI 202: Mechanics in Earth and Environmental Science

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  • E-PSCI 202 and AP 202

  • Harvard College/Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: 124688
  • Term: Fall 2019-2020
  • Course Instructor(s): James Rice
  • Meeting Time: Wednesday 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM; Friday 12:00 PM - 01:15 PM
  • Course Description: Principles of fluid and solid mechanics, and of thermal and materials physics, are developed to understand earth and environmental phenomena over a broad range of scales. Topics include classical inviscid fluid models as applied to ocean gravity waves and their tsunami excitation, Coriolis effects in large scale flows. Fluid viscosity and groundwater seepage, poroelastic phenomena, thermally-driven convective cells and large-scale thermomechanical instabilities; boundary layers. Turbulent stream flows, flood surges, sediment transport. Elasticity, fracture and faulting dynamics and related seismic waves. Fluid pore pressurization interactions with deformation and failure of earth materials, as in the poromechanics of consolidation, of induced faulting in earthquakes and landslides, and in ice flow mechanics on the great ice sheets.  Earth and Planetary Sciences 202 is co-listed as Applied Physics 202.

 

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