Upon an exponential growth of life on earth, supported by a century of oil- based energy economy, following a century of its coal-based phase, the world we live in is facing a point of inflection!
Elektromechanische Systeme, bestehend aus wechselwirkenden elektrischen, mechanischen und akustischen Teilsystemen gewinnen im Präzisionsgerätebau, in der Sensor- und Aktortechnik, der Elektroakustik sowie in der Medizintechnik eine immer größere Bedeutung.
The classical theories of Linear Elasticity and Newtonian Fluids, though trium- phantly elegant as mathematical structures, do not adequately describe the defor- mation and flow of most real materials.
Diese Sammlung von rund 200 detailliert ausgearbeiteten Übungsaufgaben ergänzt das Lehrbuch "Strömungslehre" des Autors und veranschaulicht den Lehrstoff durch Beispiele.
Diese Sammlung detailliert ausgearbeiteter Übungsaufgaben ergänzt das Lehrbuch "Strömungslehre" des Autors und veranschaulicht den Lehrstoff durch Beispiele.
Die Tensorrechnung ist ein formaler, programmierbarer Kalkül von speziellem Nutzen in der angewandten Mathematik, in der theoretischen Physik und in den theoretisch oder numerisch orientierten Ingenieurwissenschaften.
Suitable for both individual and group learning, Engineering Acoustics focuses on basic concepts and methods to make our environments quieter, both in buildings and in the open air.
In 1942 Guderley investigated the behaviour of the typical parameters near the axis when he was studying the focusing of cylindrical shock waves by solving the partial differential equations using the similarity method.
For over twenty years, the Joint Program in Physical Oceanography of MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has based its education program on a series of core courses in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography.
The present volume offers a state-of-the-art report on the various recent sci- entific developments in the Theory of Porous Media (TPM) comprehending the basic theoretical concepts in continuum mechanics on porous and mul- tiphasic materials as well as the wide range of experimental and numerical applications.
Provides a short survey of recent advances in the mathematical modelling of the mechanical behavior of anisotropic solids under creep conditions, including principles, methods, and applications of tensor functions.
"e;Completing Transition: The Main Challenges"e; was the topic around which the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Joint Vienna Institute organized a high-level conference in 2000, in a continuation of long-standing efforts to promote the dialogue and understanding between various regions in Europe.
Based on practical problems in mechanical engineering, the author develops in this book the fundamental concepts of non-smooth thermomechanics and introduces the necessary background material needed to deal with mechanics involving discontinuities and non-smooth constraints.
The Origin of Species Charles Darwin The origin of turbulence in fluids is a long-standing problem and has been the focus of research for decades due to its great importance in a variety of engineering applications.
Fluids, play an important role in environmental systems, appearing as surface water in rivers, lakes, and coastal regions or in the subsurface as well as in the atmosphere.
This is a textbook intended for students and researchers who wish to under- stand the physics of standard "e;big bang"e; cosmology and how it is used to interpret the most recent observations.
This book is dedicated to Professor Kolumban Hutter of the Darmstadt Univer- sity of Technology on the occasion of his 60th birthday on 22 January 200l.
The thennodynamics of fluids under shear flow is an active and very challenging topic in modem non-equilibrium thennodynamics and statistical mechanics.
The contents of this book has been the subject of a lecture course, which the first author has held regularly for engineering students at the Technical University of Karlsruhe beginning in 1987.
The aim of the book is the presentation of the fundamental mathematical and physical concepts of continuum mechanics of solids in a unified description so as to bring young researchers rapidly close to their research area.
The present book deals with the finite-part singular integral equations, the multidimensional singular integral equations and the non-linear singular integral equations, which are currently used in many fields of engineering mechanics with applied character, like elasticity, plasticity, thermoelastoplasticity, viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, fracture mechanics, structural analysis, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics and elastodynamics.
Three subjects of major interest in one textbook: linear elasticity, mechanics of structures in linear isotropic elasticity, and nonlinear mechanics including computational algorithms.
High resolution upwind and centered methods are today a mature generation of computational techniques applicable to a wide range of engineering and scientific disciplines, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) being the most prominent up to now.
Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC presents an outstanding selection of executable programs with introductory texts to chaos theory and its simulation.
In the course of over thirty years of research in various fields of physics and teaching experimental physics to undergraduate and graduate students of physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, chemistry and natural sciences I missed an introductory comprehensive book on the mathematics of linear and nonlinear oscillations and waves from the point of view of physicists and engineers.
Nonlinearity is a fascinating element of nature whose importance has been appreciated for many years when considering large-amplitude wave motions observed in various fields ranging from fluids and plasmas to solid-state, chemical, biological, and geological systems.
Increasing possibilities of computer-aided data processing have caused a new revival of optical techniques in many areas of mechanical and chemical en- gineering.
This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Fourth Symposium on Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, which was held at the California State University, Long Beach, from 16-19 January 1989.
