Lesson 4 overview

Lesson 4 overview#

This week we encounter our second common geoscience equation, the advection equation. Similar to last week, we will start with a short lecture about the advection equation and its application to modelling river erosion. There are also some notes posted for how to solve the advection-diffusion equation, which again may be of interest for the exercise this week. As usual we will finish with the exercise for this week.

  1. Geological advection lecture slides

  2. Solving the advection-diffusion equation

  3. Erosion, sedimentation, and heat transfer lecture slides

  4. Exercise 4

Learning objectives#

After completing this week’s lesson you should be able to:

  • Explain the general concept of advection and how is it defined mathematically

  • Give examples of geological processes that can be modelled using the advection equation

Lesson videos#

Lesson 4.1 - Geological advection, advection-diffusion equation

Dave Whipp, University of Helsinki @ Quantitative Geology channel on Youtube.

Lesson 4.2 - Erosion, sedimentation, and heat transfer

Dave Whipp, University of Helsinki @ Quantitative Geology channel on Youtube.

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