GEOL 478: Earth Science Modeling

Course Description

Credits 4.
3 Lecture Hours.
3 Lab Hours.Techniques for building, solving and analyzing numerical models applied to a wide variety of problems in geology, geochemistry, geobiology and geophysics; derivation and scaling of conservation laws; finite difference and finite element techniques; programming in MATLAB or a higher-level language.Prerequisites:MATH 151;MATH 152; junior or senior classification.