Classical mechanics

This book introduces parabolic wave equations, their key methods of numerical solution, and applications in seismology and ocean acoustics.

In this concise yet comprehensive book, the author discusses the principles of mass, momentum, and energy transport, and derives balance equations for single-component fluids and multicomponent mixtures based on the direct application of natural laws and principles of thermodynamics.

This volume explores the interplay between mathematical and physical research and the interactions of twentieth-century scientists within their academic communities.

This book summarizes the main advances in the field of nonlinear evolution and pattern formation caused by longwave instabilities in fluids.

This book, the first English-language translation of Acoustique des instruments de musique, Second Edition, presents the necessary foundations for understanding the complex physical phenomena involved in musical instruments.

Now in its second edition, this book continues to give readers a broad mathematical basis for modelling and understanding the wide range of wave phenomena encountered in modern applications.

This book guides undergraduate students in the use of Maxima-a computer algebra system-in solving problems in classical mechanics.

This title brings to light the discoveries and insights into the lives of many marine species made possible over the last decade by passive acoustic recorders (PAR).

This book grew out of the need to provide students with a solid introduction to modern fluid dynamics.

This distinctive textbook aims to introduce readers to the basic structures of the mechanics of deformable bodies, with a special emphasis on the description of the elastic behavior of simple materials and structures composed by elastic beams.

"e;Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design is a beautiful collection of recent work.

This thesis covers several important topics relevant to our understanding of quark-gluon plasma.

This Brief is mainly devoted to two classical and related results: the existence of a right inverse of the divergence operator and the so-called Korn Inequalities.

This book is a unique selection of work by world-class experts exploring the latest developments in Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their applications.

This book represents the HELS (Helmholtz equation least squares) theory and its applications for visualizing acoustic radiation from an arbitrarily shaped vibrating structure in free or confined space.

This textbook's methodological approach familiarizes readers with the mathematical tools required to correctly define and solve problems in continuum mechanics.

This volume collects the papers from the 2013 World Conference on Acoustic Emission in Shanghai.

This book presents fundamental concepts and seminal results to the study of vortex filaments in equilibrium.

Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience and others.

With applications to climate, technology, and industry, the modeling and numerical simulation of turbulent flows are rich with history and modern relevance.

The most important invention in human history is the Refresher 1.

This volume explores the application of topological techniques in the study of delay and ordinary differential equations with a particular focus on continuum mechanics.

Wouldn't it be great if there were a physics book that showed you how things work instead of telling you how?

This book provides an accessible introduction to the basic theory of fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) from a modern perspective that unifies theory and numerical computation.

This book is designed to accompany Physical and Computational Aspects of Convective Heat Transfer by T.

In the last few years the subject of optical cornmunications has moved rapidly from being a promising research area to a practical reality already being installed and carrying traffic in trunk networks in many countries.

Nearly a decade aga a general review article on the evaluation of optical radia- tion hazards was published in Applied Optics (Sliney and Freasier, 1973).

This book is an outgrowth of a course given by the author for people in industry, government, and universities wishing to understand the implica- tions of emerging optical fiber technology, and how this technology can be applied to their specific information transport and sensing system needs.

As the Boundary Element Method develops into a tool of engineering analysis more effort is dedicated to studying new applications and solving different problems.

This book has been written as part of a series of scientific books being published by Plenum Press.

This volume contains the papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Localization and Propagation o[ Classical Waves in Random and Periodic Media held in Aghia Pelaghia, Heraklion, Crete, May 26- 30, 1992.

The International Conference, Orbis Scientiae 1996, focused on the topics: The Neutrino Mass, Light Cone Quantization, Monopole Condensation, Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves which we have adopted as the title of these proceedings.

This volume contains the invited papers and selected contributed papers presented at the biennial International Symposium on ELECTRON COLLISIONS WITH MOLECULES, CLUSTERS AND SURF ACES held at Royal Holloway, University of London from 29th to 30th July, 1993.

The EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Science Research Committee of the U.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Navier-Stokes Equations and Related Nonlinear Problems.

Multiply charged ions have always been in the focus of atomic physics, astrophysics, plasma physics, and theoretical physics.

TEAN-LOUIS LUCHE A French poet of this eentury, Pierre Mae Orlan, wrote "e;Adventure does not exist, it is only in the mind of he who is pursuing it, and, as soon as it is at one's finger tips, it vanishes to come back to life, far away, in a different shape, at the frontiers of imagination"e;.

In this unique textbook and reference source, the authors integrate theoretical and applied research from a host of disciplines, including materials science, plasma physics, and advanced transport phenomena.

As the first major reference on glass fractography, contributors to this volume offer a comprehensive account of the fracture of glass as well as various fracture surface topography.

The origin of optical methods for fluid flow investigations appears to be nontraceable.

The Hidden Hypotheses Behind the Big Bang It is quite unavoidable that many philosophical a priori assumptions lurk behind the debate between supporters of the Big Bang and the anti-BB camp.

The Symposium *Symmetries in Science VI: From the Rotation Group to Quantum Algebras* was held at the Cloister Mehrerau, Bregenz, Austria, during the period August 2-7, 1992.

This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the technology of thermal imaging, and as a compendium of the conventions which form the basis of current FUR practice.

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy, between July 25 and August 6, 1993, under the title From Newton to Chaos: Modem Techniques for Understanding and Coping With Chaos inN-Body Dynamical Systems.