MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION OF COMPLEX NATURAL SYSTEMS

Abstract

The paper presents a review of publications devoted to the mathematical simulations of natural systems whose large spatiotemporal scales make impossible their adequate experimental modeling in nature. The studies include the modeling of the mineralogy of the surface rocks of Venus and Mars, fractional condensation from the gaseous constituent of the preplanetary nebula, the genesis of chondrites and the material of the Earth's upper mantle, and the evaporation of interstellar dust and the stratification of material in cooling planets. © Pleiades Publishing, Inc. 2006.