Event Detail

Event Type: 
Applied Mathematics and Computation Seminar
Date/Time: 
Friday, September 30, 2016 - 12:00 to 13:00
Location: 
GLK 115
Event Link: 
http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/amc_seminar

Speaker Info

Local Speaker: 
Ralph E. Showalter
Abstract: 

First we model a sedimentary basin as a saturated granular deforming porous medium of sand or silt consolidating due to its own weight and an overburden pressure. This leads to a single degenerate PDE of pseudo-parabolic type. This is joint work with Dwight Holland. Next we describe some of the issues in the development of a model of melt transport in the Earth's mantle.