Books in the North-Holland Series in Applied Mathematics & Mechanics series

The solute transport problem in porous media saturated with water had been used as a natural setting to discuss the approaches based on stochastic dynamics. This book presents the ideas and computational solutions pertaining to stochastic flow of contaminant transport in the saturated porous media such as that we find in underground aquifers.

Deals with the impact of uncertainty in input data on the outputs of mathematical models. This book also considers uncertain inputs as scalars, tensors, functions, or domain boundaries. It also includes a chapter on sensitivity analysis and on functional and convex analysis.

The propagation of mechanical disturbances in solids is of interest in many branches of the physical sciences and engineering. This book presents an account of the theory of wave propagation in elastic solids and includes a discussion of formal aspects of elastodynamic theory in 3 dimensions. It discusses the pertinent mathematical techniques.

Divided into two parts, this book contains material related to topics of technological interest. The first part deals with materials with microdefects such as cavities, cracks, and inclusions, as well as with elastic composites. The second part provides an introduction to the theory of linear elasticity.