Classical mechanics

People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet?

The Tenth International Workshop on "e;Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena"e; was held November 11-15, 1991, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.

This book collects together a unique set of articles dedicated to several fundamental aspects of the Navier-Stokes equations.

This volume explores state-of-the-art developments in theoretical and applied fluid mechanics with a focus on stabilization and control.

Umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für das Gebiet der Audiotechnik, verfasst von maßgeblichen Wissenschaftlern und Entwicklern aus Forschung und Industrie.

Theories of quantum fields at non-zero temperature have been steadily developed for well over a decade.

This book assesses how low-carbon generation, the advance of energy storage and consumer-based models can help decarbonise electricity supplies at a national level.

This volume explores state-of-the-art developments in theoretical and applied fluid mechanics with a focus on stabilization and control.

This volume contributes to one of the most important topics of Fluid Mechanics in future and presents recent research results on control theory and applied control methods.

This book gathers selected contributions of the 7th international conference on structural adhesive bonding AB 2023, held in Porto, Portugal, July 13-14, 2023.

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

This book introduces a unified implementation of bond- and state-based peridynamic theory (PD) within a commercial finite element framework, Ansys, utilizing its native elements.

In Contesting Hydropower in the Brazilian Amazon, Ed Atkins focuses on how local, national, and international civil society groups have resisted the Belo Monte and Sao Luiz do Tapajos hydroelectric projects in Brazil.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive overview of both the theory and application of fundamental aspects of concrete-filled double steel tubes (CFDST).

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the optical properties of graphene.

This best-selling handbook is the most comprehensive and practical reference available on energy auditing in buildings and industry.

PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS, Third Edition, surveys the range of sustainable energy sources and the tools that engineers, scientists, managers, and policy makers use to analyze energy generation, usage, and future trends.

This mathematical monograph details the authors' results on solutions to problems governing the simultaneous motion of two incompressible fluids.

The start-up process constitutes one of the most important states of vehicle internal combustion engine operation.

This revised edition provides updated fluid mechanics measurement techniques as well as a comprehensive review of flow properties required for research, development, and application.

This book systematically describes the concepts and principles for multi-satellite relative motion, passive and near passive formation designs, trajectory planning and control for fuel optimal formation maneuvers, and formation flying maintenance control design.

The science of rheology remains a mystery to most people, even to some scientists.

'Gravity, a Geometrical Course' presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysical and cosmological applications, updated to the issues of contemporary research and observations, with glimpses on supergravity and superstring theory, iii) the historical development of scientific ideas underlying both the birth of general relativity and its subsequent evolution.

This book presents experimental techniques in the field of aerodynamics, a discipline that is essential in numerous areas, such as the design of aerial and ground vehicles and engines, the production of energy, and understanding the wind resistance of buildings.

Die Sprache und die Methoden der modernen Differentialgeometrie sind in der vergangenen Dekade immer mehr in die theoretische Physik eingedrungen.

Updated to include recent advances, this third edition presents strategies and analysis methods for conserving energy and reducing operating costs in residential and commercial buildings.

This book covers the basic scientific background of solar cells, their principles, working, growth, operating parameters, commercialization status, manufacturing challenges, and future scope of solar cells.

This book focuses on environmental sustainability by employing elements of engineering and green computing through modern educational concepts and solutions.

Continuum Physics, Volume IV: Polar and Nonlocal Field Theories discusses the exposition of field theories for bodies which possess inner structure that can interact with mechanical and electromagnetic fields.

This standard work has new chapters devoted to unsteady RANS and to how LES and RANS strategies are effectively combined.

Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day.

Die Lehre vom Schall, die Akustik, beschreibt die Vorgänge der mecha­ nischen Schwingungen und ihre Ausbreitung in festen, flüssigen oder gasförmigen Stoffen.

This book integrates principles of flow through porous media with stochastic analyses, for advanced-level students, researchers and professionals in hydrogeology and hydraulics.

This third volume of the handbook presents a representative sample of the population papers in the field of petrodiesel fuels.

As the most important parts of rotating machinery, rotors are also the most prone to mechanical vibrations, which may lead to machine failure.

Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Second Edition explores the science of enclosure fires and how they cause changes in the environment of a building on fire.

Intended for energy managers, electrical engineers, building managers, lighting designers, consultants, and other electrical professionals, this book provides a practical description of major lighting controls types and how to apply them.

The history of the universe has fascinated mankind for centuries.

Renewable Energies Offshore includes the papers presented in the 1st International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore (RENEW2014), held in Lisbon, 24-26 November 2014.

This new volume, Design and Construction of Laboratory Gas Pipelines: A Practical Reference for Engineers and Professionals, focuses on design and installation of laboratory gas pipelines.

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

The twenty-second Coral Gables conference "e;UNIFIED SYMMETRY: In the Small and In the Large"e; continued with the efforts to unify the small and the large.