Advanced computational methods and geomechanics / Передовые вычислительные методы и геомеханика

Originated from ancient Greece, “mechanics” is a branch of science concerned with the behaviors (e.g. displacement, time, velocity, acceleration, etc.) of physical bodies subjected to actions (e.g. force, temperature, etc.). During the early modern period after the Renaissance, great scientists (e.g. Galileo, Newton, et al.) laid the laws for what is now known as “classical mechanics” that describes the motion of macro-scopic objects with velocities significantly smaller than the speed of light. By the prin-ciples of classical mechanics, if the present state of an object is detected, we are able to predict how it has moved in the past (reversibility) and how it will move in the future (determinism). <...>