Classical mechanics

This book provides an essential overview of wind science and engineering, taking readers on a journey through the origins, developments, fundamentals, recent advancements and latest trends in this broad field.

This accessible monograph introduces physicists to the general relation between classical and quantum mechanics based on the mathematical idea of deformation quantization and describes an original approach to the theory of quantum integrable systems developed by the author.

This book builds inviscid flow analysis from an undergraduate-level treatment of potential flow to the level required for research.

This book is based on lectures given at the first edition of the Domoschool, the International Alpine School in Mathematics and Physics, held in Domodossola, Italy, in July 2018.

Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts - based on Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity - are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy.

Cosmology describes the evolution of the Universe and is based on a description of its beginning from quantum fluctuations.

This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument's standard mouthpiece with different tone generators.

This book integrates concepts from physical acoustics with those from linear viscoelasticity and fractional linear viscoelasticity.

This book describes thermoelastic and inelastic deformation processes in crystalline solids undergoing loading by shock compression.

This book explains and develops the Dirac equation in the context of general relativistic quantum mechanics in a range of spacetime dimensions.

Roughly defined as any property other than pitch, duration, and loudness that allows two sounds to be distinguished, timbre is a foundational aspect of hearing.

This volume contains the proceedings of the XIX International Colloquium on Mechanical Fatigue of Metals, held at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, 5-7 September 2018.

This book gives a mathematical insight--including intermediate derivation steps--into engineering physics and turbulence modeling related to an anisotropic modification to the Boussinesq hypothesis (deformation theory) coupled with the similarity theory of velocity fluctuations.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of wind engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XV Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO 2018), held in Naples, Italy on September 9-12, 2018.

Gathering contributions by the most prominent researchers in a highly specialised field, this proceedings volume clarifies selected aspects of the physics of turbulent cascades and their statistical universalities under complex stationary and non-homogeneous conditions.

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Due to growing energy demands, the development of high energy storage density dielectric materials for energy storage capacitors has become a top priority.

This volume collects the papers from the World Conference on Acoustic Emission 2017 (WCAE-2017) in Xi'an, China.

This primer is intended to provide the theoretical background for the standard undergraduate, mechanical engineering course in dynamics.

This book presents the latest research on fundamental aspects of acoustic bubbles, and in particular on various complementary ways to characterize them.

This book provides design engineers using gas-liquid two-phase flow in different industrial applications the necessary fundamental understanding of the two-phase flow variables.

Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts - based on Einstein's theory of Special and General Relativity - are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy.

This extensively reworked 2nd edition of the book includes ten new chapters.

This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view that have proven useful in applications such as noise control, underwater sound, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and medical ultrasonics.

This thesis uses the tools of quantum information science to uncover fascinating new insights about the intersection of quantum theory and relativity.

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This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations.

This is an advanced modern textbook on thermal stresses.

This is a comprehensive biography of Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953), the father of modern aerodynamics.

This book addresses the basic concepts of continuum mechanics, that is, the classical field theory of deformable bodies.

This is a fascinating account of two great scientists of the 20th century: Einstein and Heisenberg, discoverers, respectively, of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

This book explores the pivotal role that smart materials and energy systems play in driving innovation and sustainability in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

This book gathers the proceedings of the 11th workshop on Direct and Large Eddy Simulation (DLES), which was held in Pisa, Italy in May 2017.

Back Cover Text:This book addresses the study of the gaseous state of granular matter in the conditions of rapid flow caused by a violent and sustained excitation.

This edited volume features essays written in honor of Ernst Mach.

This textbook gives a basic introduction to theoretical physics.

This book provides an extensive introduction to the mechanics of anti-sandwiches: non-classical composites with multiple homogeneous layers but widely differing parameters concerning their geometry and materials.

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity.

In October 1918, Jan Burgers, 23 years old, started as professor of 'aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and their applications' at the Technical University in Delft.

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

This augmented, new edition adds discussion of the bat's vertical sweetness gradient, eye-hand cross-dominance, models for the swing of a bat, and accuracy of simulations.

The future of music archiving and search engines lies in deep learning and big data.

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

This textbook provides an introduction to gravitational lensing, which has become an invaluable tool in modern astrophysics, with applications that range from finding planets orbiting distant stars to understanding how dark matter and dark energy conspired to form the cosmic structures we see today.

This book contains a selection of research papers presented at the 11th and 12th International Ship Stability Workshops (Wageningen, 2010 and Washington DC, 2011) and the 11th International Conference on Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (Athens, 2012).

This book addresses problems in three main developments in modern condensed matter physics- namely topological superconductivity, many-body localization and strongly interacting condensates/superfluids-by employing fruitful analogies from classical mechanics.

Sound, devoid of meaning, would not matter to us.

There is a strong need for further innovation and the development of viable renewable energy sources.

This book unies the common tensor analytical aspects in engineering and physics.