Gravity, cosmology, and astrophysics : a journey of exploration and discovery with female pioneers

• Main Authors: Hartmann, Betti, Kunz, Jutta, Bell Burnell, Jocelyn
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer 2023; Springer Nature; Springer Nature Switzerland
• Edition: 1
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: accretion discs and shadows of black holes; accretion discs and shadows of stars; Applied physics; Astronomy, space and time; Astrophysics; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; black holes and wormholes with scalar hair; black holes in supergravity; boson stars; center of mass in General Relativity; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory; Classical mechanics; cosmic strings; Cosmology; Cosmology and the universe; Elementary particles (Physics); Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory; Gravitation; Gravity; halo bi-spectrum; holographic superconductors; large scale structure observations; Mathematical physics; Mathematics and Science; Particle and high-energy physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; primordial black holes; Quantum field theory; scalar-tensor gravity; teleparallel cosmology; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Women scientists
• ISBN: 9783031420955; 3031420950; 3031420969; 9783031420962
• ISSN: 0075-8450; 1616-6361
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42096-2

This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate geophysical flows. To this end, three formidably complex problems (sediment transport, flow-like landslide inception, and gravity currents) are considered. The reader will find a thorough combination of elements of fluid and solid mechanics, rheology, geotechnics, geomorphology, civil, and coastal engineering. The first part of the book introduces the problem of granular suspensions from the mathematical viewpoint, focusing on issues that characterise geophysical flows such as turbulence, the effects of inter-particle contacts, and strong velocity gradients. In the second part, different models that were successfully used to investigate the mechanics of granular suspensions in environmental flows are presented.