Classical mechanics

As the demand for energy harvesting and storage devices grows, this book will be valuable for researchers to learn about the most current achievements in this sector.

Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications examines the latest advances in the field of cavitation and multiphase flows, including associated effects such as material erosion and spray instabilities.

Nowadays, the engineering practice raises far more vibration problems than can be theoretically explained or modelled.

This volume contains edited papers from IABEM-90, the 1990 Symposium of the Interna- tional Association for Boundary Element Methods (IABEM).

With this all-in-one manual, students and teachers have an easy-to-read reference that provides a reliable and current rundown of the world of sound production, from planning a recording session to mastering the final product.

Presents, at a level suitable for undergraduates and technical college students, the basic physical theory of mechanics and the molecular structure of matter.

Despite the length of time it has been around, its importance, and vast amounts of research, combustion is still far from being completely understood.

Over the last several decades, the petroleum industry has experienced significant changes in resource availability, petro-politics, and technological advancements dictated by the changing quality of refinery feedstocks.

This book lays the foundation of knowledge that will allow a better understanding of nonlinear phenomena that occur in structural dynamics.

This book presents a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of turbulence modeling, with an emphasis on numerical methods.

This book will take an in-depth look at the technologies, processes, and capabilities to develop and produce "e;next generation"e; energetic materials for both commercial and defense applications, including military, mining operations, oil production and well perforation, and construction demolition.

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Autofrettage Processes: Technology and Modeling deals with the technology and modeling of autofrettage processes, explaining the subject in a lucid manner.

Understand the absorption of energy from ocean waves by means of oscillating systems with this useful new edition.

Balancing concise mathematical analysis with real-world examples and practical applications, to provide a clear and approachable introduction to wave phenomena.

Proceedings of the Third EEC Workshop on Photochemical, Photoelectrochemical and Photobiological Research and Development, London, 18-21 April 1989.

This book presents recent progress in the application of RANS turbulence models based on the Reynolds stress transport equations.

This book gathers contributions to the 20th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB) and the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR).

Most dam accidents with hydroelectric plants are due to under-dimensioning of the maximum floods of spillway design, causing extravasation and dam breaks (this occurs in 23% of the accidents).

Men of Physics: Lord Rayleigh-The Man and His Work presents an appraisal of the significance of Rayleigh's scientific work, together with extracts from his published papers.

The book aims to provide the reader with an updated general presentation of multiscale/multiresolution approaches in turbulent flow simulations.

Code-compliant building materials and equipment will typically have a lower initial cost; however, the lifetime energy savings of the high efficiency equipment will often justify the upfront cost premium and result in a more cost-effective solution.

Since many processes in the food industry involve fluid flow and heat and mass transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) provides a powerful early-stage simulation tool for gaining a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the performance of food processing, allowing engineers to test concepts all the way through the development of a process or system.

This volume, the fourteenth in the Space Sciences Series of ISS/, is dedicated to the matter in the universe, which was the topic of a workshop organized by ISSI from 19 to 22 March 2001 in Bern.

This book states developments in the bioenergy market and related policies.

Demonstrating how to apply financial formulas to prove or disprove the utility of 100% Nondesctructive testing (NDT), this book helps readers build the financial case for their NDT projects.

These three lectures cover a certain aspect of complexity and black holes, namely the relation to the second law of thermodynamics.

The physical modelling of metal forming processes has been widely used both in University and in Industry for many years.

This book explores the use of numerical relativity (NR) methods to solve cosmological problems, and describes one of the first uses of NR to study inflationary physics.

This book presents a systematic attempt to generalize several fundamental physical laws related to subsurface fluid flow that are important for a number of contemporary applications in the areas of hydrogeology, reservoir engineering and rock mechanics.

This book is based on contributions to the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Recombination of Atomic Ions.

This book compactly provides the fundamentals of experimental physics for students of the natural sciences who are taking physics as a minor or major subject.

The revised edition of this advanced textbook provides the reader with a solid grounding in the formalism of classical mechanics, underlying a number of powerful mathematical methods that are widely used in modern theoretical and mathematical physics.

Industries that use pumps, seals and pipes will also use valves and actuators in their systems.

This book aims to present the topic of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in a manner that is useful and beneficial to students and young researchers from various domains such as physics, mathematics, biology, or even medicine.

This book presents tensors and tensor analysis as primary mathematical tools for engineering and engineering science students and researchers.

Demonstrating how to apply financial formulas to prove or disprove the utility of 100% Nondesctructive testing (NDT), this book helps readers build the financial case for their NDT projects.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the design and analysis of the most advanced technologies for fuel ethanol production from feedstocks.

Heating and Cooling with Ground-Source Heat Pumps in Cold and Moderate Climates: Fundamentals and Basic Concepts covers fundamentals and design principles of vertical and horizontal indirect and direct expansion closed-loop, as well as ground and surface-water ground-source heat pump systems.

This book covers different topics of nonlinear mechanics in complex structures, such as the appearance of new nonlinear phenomena and the behavior of finite-dimensional and distributed nonlinear systems, including numerous systems directly connected with important technological problems.

The book provides information on recent advancements in bioenergy engineering to graduates, post-graduates, research scholars, faculty members, academician, researchers and practitioners studying and working in field of the bioenergy engineering.

This series of volumes on the "e;Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics"e; was introduced to honor contributors who have made a major impact on the field.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Presents a self-contained introduction to continuum mechanics that illustrates how many of the important partial differential equations of applied mathematics arise from continuum modeling principles Written as an accessible introduction, Continuum Mechanics: The Birthplace of Mathematical Models provides a comprehensive foundation for mathematical models used in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, and heat transfer.

Almost all mechanical devices used in every industry require lubrication.

Fuel cell systems have now reached a degree of technological maturity and appear destined to form the cornerstone of future energy technologies.