Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Juan Carlos Afonso
Contact via juan.afonso@mq.edu.au
E7A523
Send email to book time
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MRes
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
No Co-badged
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit will focus on special topics in geophysics. Topics can range from shallow geophysical, to deep geophysical to global geophysics. Topics will be chosen to give students the basic tools of analysis that are required to undertake more advanced research.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Exam | 25% | June |
Assignments I | 25% | end of March |
Assignments II | 25% | End of April |
Assignments III | 25% | end of May |
Due: June
Weighting: 25%
FInal exam on theory
Due: end of March
Weighting: 25%
Problems in Continuum Mechanics and Crystallography
Due: End of April
Weighting: 25%
Probems in Mantle convection. Use of matlab and convection codes to simulate convection in the Earth's mantle.
Due: end of May
Weighting: 25%
Matlab excercises about numerical methods used in scientific research.
Video lectures + practicals or Lectures/practical, depending on the number of studentes enrolled.
One laptop/desktop per student will be provided by the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
1. Continuum mechanics 1: Vectors, vector equations, Cartesian tensors, tensorial equations, differentiation, gradient, divergence, curl (S. Clark)
2. Continuum mechanics 2: Forces, Stress, Cauchy's formula, equations of equilibrium, principal stresses and principal axes, plane stress, deviatoric stress tensor, pressure, Lame's stress ellipsoid (S. Clark)
3. Continuum mechanics 3: Deformation and strain, strain tensor and strain components, infinitesimal strain, finite strain, Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions, vector fields, compatibility condition (S. Clark)
4. Continuum mechanics 4: Constitutive equations, isotropic and anisotropic materials, elasticity, viscosity, plasticity (C. O’Neill)
5. Continuum mechanics 5: conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, mantle convection (C. O’Neill)
6. Continuum mechanics 6: conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, mantle convection (cont.) (C. O’Neill)
7. Gravitation and gravity 1: gravitational potential, Laplace and Poisson equations, Moments of inertia, MacCullagh's formula, ellipticity of the Earth, the geopotential, normal gravity and potential, the geoid, isostatic geoid anomalies, spherical harmonic functions, Legendre polynomials, regional gravity and geoid anomalies, modelling, Talwani equations (J. C. Afonso)
7. Gravitation and gravity 2: isostatic geoid anomalies, spherical harmonic functions, Legendre polynomials, regional gravity and geoid anomalies, modelling, Talwani equations (J. C. Afonso)
8. Numerical methods I: Linear algebraic equations, Direct methods (Gauss elimination, factorisation, Cholesky method, Pivoting), Iterative methods (Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel, gradient methods) (J. C. Afonso)
9. Numerical methods II: Numerical integration, Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, Introduction to the FD and FE methods (J. C. Afonso)
10. Numerical methods III: Partial differential equations, FD and FE methods (J. C. Afonso)
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