Computational Challenges in the Geosciences addresses a cross-section of grand challenge
problems arising in geoscience applications including groundwater and petroleum reservoir
simulation hurricane storm surge oceanography volcanic eruptions and landslides and
tsunamis. Each of these applications gives rise to complex physical and mathematical models
spanning multiple space-time scales which can only be studied through computer simulation. The
data required by the models is often highly uncertain and the numerical solution of the models
requires sophisticated algorithms which are mathematically accurate computationally efficient
and yet must preserve basic physical properties of the models. This volume summarizes current
methodologies and future research challenges in this broad and important field.
