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.

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 videos will be linked below after class.

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