Classical mechanics

This book describes the historical development of the principle of stationary action from  the 17th to the 20th centuries.

This book offers a guide to understanding models of vortex rings, starting from classical ones (circular vortex filament, Hill and Norbury-Fraenkel inviscid models) to very recent models incorporating viscous effects and realistic shapes of the vortex core.

This volume explores a range of recent advances in mathematical fluid mechanics, covering theoretical topics and numerical methods.

This book presents the superfield description of various supersymmetric field theory models in three- and four-dimensional space-times.

This book provides an introduction to Acoustic Emission Testing and its applications to different materials like concrete, steel, ceramics, geotechnical materials, polymers, biological structures and wood.

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the use of software in combination with simple and economical hardware (a sound level meter with calibrated AC output and a digital recording system) to obtain sophisticated measurements usually requiring expensive equipment.

This volume offers an overview of the area of waves in fluids and the role they play in the mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of fluid flows.

This book explores the fascinating and intimate relationship between music and physics.

This volume provides a detailed description of some of the most active areas in astrophysics from the largest scales probed by the Planck satellite to massive black holes that lie at the heart of galaxies and up to the much awaited but stunning discovery of thousands of exoplanets.

This book presents important contributions to modern theories concerning the distribution theory applied to convex analysis (convex functions, functions of lower semicontinuity, the subdifferential of a convex function).

How do we understand culture and shape its future?

This book is focused on the introduction of the finite difference method based on the classical one-dimensional structural members, i.

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

This book serves as a core text for university curricula in solid body mechanics and, at the same time, examines the main achievements of state of the art research in the mechanics of elastic and non-elastic materials.

This book is intended to engage the students in the elegance of electrodynamics and special relativity, whilst giving them the tools to begin graduate study.

This book describes the recently-discovered artificially curved light beam known as the photonic hook.

Available for the first time in English, this two-volume course on theoretical and applied mechanics has been honed over decades by leading scientists and teachers, and is a primary teaching resource for engineering and maths students at St.

Available for the first time in English, this two-volume course on theoretical and applied mechanics has been honed over decades by leading scientists and teachers, and is a primary teaching resource for engineering and maths students at St.

This book examines the human auditory effects of exposure to directed beams of high-power microwave pulses, which research results have shown can cause a cascade of health events when aimed at a human subject or the subject's head.

This textbook provides a concise, clear, and rigorous presentation of the dynamics of linear systems that delivers the necessary tools for the analysis and design of mechanical/ structural systems, regardless of their complexity.

This book provides an introduction to geometrically non-linear single crystal plasticity with continuously distributed dislocations.

This book gives a comprehensive account of the formulation and computational treatment of basic geometrically linear models in 1D.

This book provides an elementary introduction to one-dimensional fluid flow problems involving shock waves in air.

This volume presents lectures given at the Wisla 19 Summer School: Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, and Mathematical Physics, which took place from August 19 - 29th, 2019 in Wisla, Poland, and was organized by the Baltic Institute of Mathematics.

This book offers detailed insights into new methods for high-fidelity CFD, and their industrially relevant applications in aeronautics.

This book results from the XVIII Spanish-French School 'Jacques Louis Lions' on Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering, that took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria from 25th to 29th June 2018.

This new edition of this standard work adds several new information the book, so that sound engineering and architects can better assess the acoustic value of a Rock and Pop Venue.

In this book the real analytic solutions for the "e;Disc with Circular Inclusion"e; under normal- and shear force at plane-strain state (EVZ) are presented.

Gravitational physics has now become a mainstream topic in physics and physics teaching.

This book introduces the concept of unsteady aerodynamics and its underlying principles.

This self-contained, interdisciplinary book encompasses mathematics, physics, computer programming, analytical solutions and numerical modelling, industrial computational fluid dynamics (CFD), academic benchmark problems and engineering applications in conjunction with the research field of anisotropic turbulence.

This book delves into finite mathematics and its application in physics, particularly quantum theory.

Random fields are a necessity when formulating stochastic continuum theories.

This third edition builds on the introduction of spectral analysis as a means of investigating wave propagation and transient oscillations in structures.

The field of elliptic functions, apart from its own mathematical beauty, has many applications in physics in a variety of topics, such as string theory or integrable systems.

This book uses a novel concept to teach the finite element method, applying it to solid mechanics.

Rational extended thermodynamics (RET) is the theory that is applicable to nonequilibrium phenomena out of local equilibrium.

This book focuses on the need for an Eulerian formulation of constitutive equations.

This text describes the mathematical formulation and proof of the unified mechanics theory (UMT) which is based on the unification of Newton's laws and the laws of thermodynamics.

Cosmology and astroparticle physics have seen an avalanche of discoveries in the past decade (IceCube - high energy neutrinos, LIGO - gravitational waves, Fermi- gamma-ray telescope, Xenon-1T - dark matter detection, PLANCK- cosmic microwave radiation, EHT picture of black hole, SDSS -galaxy surveys), all of which require a multidisciplinary background for analyzing the phenomena.

This book provides an in-depth and accessible description of special relativity and quantum mechanics which together form the foundation of 21st century physics.

This book provides an in-depth account of the fascinating but far from simple actions and processes that take place when a brass instrument is played.

This book presents Special Relativity in a language accessible to students while avoiding the burdens of geometry, tensor calculus, space-time symmetries, and the introduction of four vectors.

This book is based on the author's lecture notes for his Introductory Newtonian Mechanics course at the Hellenic Naval Academy.

The 1846 discovery of Neptune is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of science and astronomy.

This book contains selected and expanded contributions presented at the 15th Conference on Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical Structures held in Timisoara, Romania, May 30-31, 2019.

This book reviews the mathematical modeling and experimental study of systems involving two or more different length scales.

This book reviews various modified gravity models, including those with modifications in the pure gravitational sector; those involving extra fields, that is, scalar-tensor and vector-tensor gravity theories; gravity models with Lorentz symmetry breaking; and nonlocal gravity models.

Now in an updated second edition, this classroom-tested textbook describes essential concepts in vibration analysis of mechanical systems.

This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to problems of stability and chaotic behaviour in planetary systems and its subsystems.