Geophysics: Continental interior in view

A Computational View of Interior Point Methods

Many issues that are crucial for an e cient implementation of an interior point algorithm are addressed in this chapter. To start with, a prototype primaldual algorithm is presented. Next, many tricks that make it e cient in practice are discussed in detail. Those include: preprocessing techniques, initialization approaches, methods for computing search directions (and the underlying linear alg...

Distribution : A View From the Interior

Continuous professional development in pathology: a continental view.

There is no self respecting professional who can do without continuous professional development (CPD). All of us know more that we did 10 years ago but we should also be aware of the fact that, relative to the explosive increase of knowledge, we are also ignorant of much more than we were 10 years ago. Pathologists who try to escape the pressure of CPD run the risk of lagging behind, of using o...

The Interior Structure of the Moon: What Does Geophysics Have to Say?

Samples of the Moon obtained from the Apollo and Luna missions, as well as from lunar meteorites found haphazardly on Earth, are a testament to the violent origin and early evolution of the Earth–Moon system. The prevailing paradigm for the origin of the Moon derived from these samples posits that a Mars-sized object collided with the proto-Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, placing in Earth or...

Turbulence in Geophysics

Fluid in Geophysics including atmosphere and ocean, compared with the normal fluid in Hydrodynamics, its properties, such as density, pressure, temperature and velocity, all change along with altitude. That is to say, fluid in Geophysics is stratified. Therefore, the characteristics of its turbulence at different stratifications will not be the same, either. Some special characteristics, as wel...