Alex Hansen

An invaluable reference for graduate students and academic researchers, this book introduces the basic terminology, methods and theory of the physics of flow in porous media. Geometric concepts, such as percolation and fractals, are explained and simple simulations are created, providing readers with both the knowledge and the analytical tools to deal with real experiments. It covers the basic hydrodynamics of porous media and how complexity emerges from it, as well as establishing key connections between hydrodynamics and statistical physics. Covering current concepts and their uses, this book is of interest to applied physicists and computational/theoretical Earth scientists and engineers seeking a rigorous theoretical treatment of this topic. Physics of Flow in Porous Media fills a gap in the literature by providing a physics-based approach to a field that is mostly dominated by engineering approaches.

The democratic rule of the judges in the capital city of Zarahemla has been overthrown. Chief Judge Pahoran has been exiled by a self-absorbed, self-declared king whose power and influence is beginning to spread throughout the region. The nation is already struggling to ward off invasion across its southern borders and Pahoran fears that the new king will sacrifice the fringe territories in order to secure his own safety in the capital. His only hope to reestablish a responsible government that will save his people from slaughter is to seek the aid of a charismatic, vicious, and mercurial military commander named Moroni.

Shortly after his murder, seventeen-year-old Jason Giles finds himself in Hell. Tricked into taking over the devil's job, he must learn the ropes of ruling the fiery pit in order to defend himself against both mutinous demons and those who wish to escape to the realm of the living. With the help of his predecessor's aide Gus and a team of loyal demonic friends he recruits along the way, Jason must ultimately learn the price of true salvation and sacrifice-if it can be attained. Full of awkward heroes, wisecracking villains, and one teenager's culture shock as he is thrust into an absurd underworld crumbling beneath the weight of its own bureaucracy, The New Devil explores the expanse of the afterlife with absurdity, loyalty, humor, and ultimately, redemption.

Kenny Scanlon is on another confusing adventure through time. The alien who sold him the time travel device a few years earlier has returned and he's enlisted Kenny to track down another Pysonian who's on the run from the law. The fugitive has secured a machine that allows him to travel sideways through time, hopping between timelines instead of simply traveling forward or backward. The chase takes Kenny, his girlfriend Aisha, and his loyal buddy Travis across dozens of often bizarre timelines as they desperately try to exact a particularly haphazard form of galactic justice.

Corporate security guard Allen Everett is worried that his company might be responsible for a rash of mysteriously gruesome deaths across the galaxy. But Everett is only a character in a novel by Alfred Finley. Fred Finley is struggling to cope with the possibility that he may have Huntington's, the disease that drove his mother to suicide. But Fred is only a character in a novel by Alphonse Walczynski. Alph works as a custodian by night and a struggling self-published author by day. When his successful younger sister gets engaged, he suddenly realizes how comparatively little his life has amounted to. In an effort to process this revelation, he begins work on an unwittingly self-exploratory novel about Fred's work on a self-exploratory novel about Everett. Meanwhile, hoping to hone his writing skills, Alph reluctantly allows his sister's fianc to guide him on a journey of discovery that will supposedly help him inject more humanity into his novels. Through its three interconnected storylines, Alph Beta explores tragedy and comedy, creativity and clich , and what it should mean to be human-whether you're a real human or a fictional one.

Gathering research from physics, mechanical engineering, and statistics in a single resource for the first time, this text presents the background to the model, its theoretical basis, and applications ranging from materials science to earth science. The authors start by explaining why disorder is important for fracture and then go on to introduce the fiber bundle model, backed by various different applications. Appendices present the necessary mathematical, computational and statistical background required. The structure of the book allows the reader to skip some material that is too specialized, making this topic accessible to the engineering, mechanics and materials science communities, in addition to providing further reading for graduate students in statistical physics.