The principles of glacier physics are developed from basic laws in this up-to-date third edition for advanced students and researchers.

Heat Transfer topics are commonly of a very complex nature. Often different mechanisms like heat conduction, convection, thermal radiation, and non-linear phenomena, such as temperature-dependent thermophysical properties, and phase changes occur simultaneously. New developments in numerical solution methods of partial differential equations and access to high-speed, efficient and cheap computers have led to dramatic advances during recent years. This book publishes papers from the Ninth International Conference on Advanced Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements in Heat and Mass Transfer, exploring new approaches to the numerical solutions of heat and mass transfer problems and their experimental measurement. Papers encompass a number of topics such as: Diffusion and Convection; Conduction; Natural and Forced Convection; Heat and Mass Transfer Interaction; Casting, Welding, Forging and other Processes; Heat Exchanges; Atmospheric Studies; Advances in Computational Methods; Modelling and Experiments; Micro and Nano Scale Heat and Mass Transfer; Energy Systems; Energy Balance Studies; Thermal Material Characterization; Applications in Biology; Applications in Ecological Buildings; Case Studies.

Accompanied by map in back inside cover pocket entitled: Geology of the Northern Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, 1st ed., 2001.

The purpose and scope of this book on theoretical glaciology is outlined in the Introduction. Its aim is to study the theoretical aspects of'ice mechanics' and the 'dynamics of ice masses in a geophysical environment. For the mature reader, the book can serve as an introduction to glaciology. How ever, this is not what I would regard as advisible. Glaciology is an inter disciplinary science in which many special scientific disciplines play their part, from descriptive geography to fairly abstract mathematics. Advance ment will evolve from a merger of two or more branches of scientific specialization. In the last 20 years, several researchers in different fields of glaciology have written books emphasizing the aspects of their specialities and I have listed some which are known to me at the end of the Introduction. When glancing through these books, one recognizes that the mathematical aspects of glaciology are generally glossed over and, to date, there seems to be nothing available which concentrates on these. Therefore, I have written this book in an effort to close the gap and no apologies are offered for the mathematical emphasis. Rather, I believe that this neglect has, to a certain extent, aggra vated progress in the modelling of glaciology problems.