Classical mechanics

This unique text provides engineering students and practicing professionals with a comprehensive set of practical, hands-on guidelines and dozens of step-by-step examples for performing state-of-the-art, reliable computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and turbulence modeling.

This book offers a comprehensive and complete description of a new scheme to stabilize the power of a laser on a level needed for high precision metrology experiments.

Advanced Controls for Wind Driven Doubly Fed Induction Generators discusses the most advanced control algorithms used for enhancing the dynamics of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) operating at fixed and variable speeds, and which are used for different utilization purposes (standalone and grid connection).

The first book to present a full-color visual panorama of combustion images along with explanatory and tutorial overviews.

This book discusses key conceptual aspects and explores the connection between triangulated manifolds and quantum physics, using a set of case studies ranging from moduli space theory to quantum computing to provide an accessible introduction to this topic.

Integrated operation of hydropower stations and reservoirs has become a trend of hydropower exploitation, as an effective technical measure, integrated operation can improve the utilization efficiency of water resources, reduce the risks of flood and drought disaster, increase the safety and stability power grid and make sure that hydropower stations and reservoirs operate in an appropriate and economical way.

A comprehensive, accessible introduction to modern all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries.

This textbook provides details of the derivation of Lagrange's planetary equations and of the closely related Gauss's variational equations, thereby covering a sorely needed topic in existing literature.

This book is about black holes, one of the most intriguing objects of modern theoretical physics and astrophysics.

Interstellar Travel: Propulsion, Life Support, Communications, and the Long Journey addresses the technical challenges that must be overcome to make such journeys possible.

Elastic waves are used in fields as diverse as the non-destructive evaluation of materials, medicine, seismology and telecommunications.

This comprehensive reference covers important aspects of heat exchangers (HEs): design and modes of operation and practical, large-scale applications in process, power, petroleum, transport, air conditioning, refrigeration, cryogenics, heat recovery, energy, and other industries.

This textbook takes a broad yet thorough approach to mechanics, aimed at bridging the gap between classical analytic and modern differential geometric approaches to the subject.

Building upon the success of the first edition, the Nuclear Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of nuclear power engineering.

This book focuses on the development and implementation of the longitudinal, angular and frequency controls of the Advanced Virgo detector, both from the simulation and experimental point of view, which contributed to Virgo reaching a sensitivity that enabled it to join the LIGO-Virgo O2 run in August 2017.

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

This revised edition of Renewable Energy: A First Course is fully updated and continues to provide the best in-depth introduction to renewable energy science.

This book serves as a textbook for senior undergraduate students who are learning the subject of general relativity and gravitational waves for the first time.

This book summarizes the modeling of the transport, evolution and fate of particles in the coastal ocean for advanced students and researchers.

The revised edition of this book offers an expanded review of acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves, surface Rayleigh waves and water waves, in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, negative refraction, passive and active cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission.

Quantum mechanics is the foundation of modern technology, due to its innumerable applications in physics, chemistry and even biology.

The simulation of technological and environmental flows is very important for many industrial developments.

A comprehensive review of global ionospheric research from the polar caps to equatorial regions It's more than a century since scientists first identified the ionosphere, the layer of the Earth s upper atmosphere that is ionized by solar and cosmic radiation.

The global energy scenario is undergoing an unprecedented transition.

This book comprises selected papers from the First International Conference on Convective Flow Boiling.

This book contains notes for a one-semester graduate course which is an introduction to the study of viscoelasticity and creep of concrete.

A unique graduate textbook that develops powerful approximation methods and their applications to real-life astrophysical systems.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Biophysik des Fließgleichgewichts" verfügbar.

Five laboratories from France, Hungary and the Czech Republic have solved a Project supported fmancially by NATO within the Science for Peace Program (under Nr.

This book presents a summary of the research progress in the field of petroleum radiation processing, which has produced technology that offers effective and economic solutions for some pressing oil refining challenges.

Originally published in 1981.

With demand for petroleum products increasing worldwide, there is a tendency for existing refineries to seek new approaches to optimize efficiency and throughput.

This book presents seven chapters examining selected noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) topics that are highly relevant for automotive vehicle development.

This book provides an overview of the chemical and physical concepts of instability and incompatibility of petroleum and liquid fuels.

The articles focus on new developments in the field of large-eddy simulation of complex flows and are related to the topics: modelling and analysis of subgrid scales, numerical issues in LES cartesian grids for complex geometries, curvilinear and non-structured grids for complex geometries.

Car electronics and digital processing technology have been used to improve the efficiency and performance of engines for decades, yet the main focus is still on static or pseudo-static mode, while the engines loaded in the road vehicles are not always operated at static mode.

This graduate text on viscoelastic materials addresses design applications as diverse as earplugs, computer disks and medical diagnostics.

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Acoustical imaging has become an indispensable tool in a variety of fields.

This textbook introduces readers to the detailed and methodical resolution of classical and more recent problems in analytical mechanics.

Power systems are increasingly collecting large amounts of data due to the expansion of the Internet of Things into power grids.

This updated/augmented second edition retains it class-tested content and pedagogy as a core text for graduate courses in advanced fluid mechanics and applied science.

The scientific study of speech production has been undertaken within a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, physiology, physical acoustics, and psychology, among others.

An accessible book for graduate students and researchers that describes how the laws of thermodynamics apply to Earth system processes.

From earthquakes to the northern lights and tsunamis to glacier movement, the author explains thousands of phenomena in the world around us.