Peter Bastian was a Danish musician with an unconventional background in theoretical physics and classical bassoon. His career spanned membership in The Danish Wind Quintet and the band Bazaar. Bastian's deep engagement with music led to his literary pursuits. His books delved into the essence of music and life, exploring its structures and sharing his personal journey as a musician and thinker.
Annotation. Australians take for granted the presence of their federal government yet it is impossible to overestimate, as this full biography reveals, the role Andrew Fisher played in its development. The book also reveals the skills with which Fisher led the ALP in its early years and his important contributions as wartime Prime Minister and as High Commissioner in London. Andrew Fisher: An Underestimated Man attempts to account for the obscurity of one of Australiaa s greatest reformers.
Subsurface flow problems are inherently multiscale in space and time due to the variability of material properties and the coupling of various physical processes, including advection, diffusion, reaction, and phase exchange. Current subsurface flow models require significant advancement, as they struggle to adequately describe nonequilibrium effects, entrapped air, anomalous dispersion, and hysteresis. Additionally, model parameters are often difficult to access and uncertain. Computational challenges include managing strong heterogeneities and anisotropies, efficiently solving transport-reaction problems involving multiple species, addressing multiphase-multicomponent flows, and integrating subsurface models with surface flow models governed by shallow water or Stokes equations. In terms of energy and environmental concerns, the modeling and simulation of radioactive waste management and underground CO2 sequestration have garnered considerable interest, presenting unique challenges from modeling clay materials to handling large-scale models using high-performance computing. This work unites key numerical mathematicians focused on the analysis and computation of multiscale subsurface flow with practitioners from engineering and industry interested in applying these fundamental issues.
