Lesson 11 overview

This week we encounter our second common geoscience equation, the advection equation. Similar to last week, we will start with a short lecture about the advection equation and its application to modelling river erosion. There are also some notes posted for how to solve the advection-diffusion equation. These are not required reading, but may be of interest for the exercise this week. As usual we will finish with the exercise for this week.

1. Advection of Earth’s surface lecture slides
2. Notes on solving the advection-diffusion equation (optional)
3. Exercise 11
4. Exercise 11 hints

Learning objectives

After completing this week’s lesson you should be able to:

• Explain the general concept of advection and how is it defined mathematically
• Give examples of geological processes that can be modelled using the advection equation