Classical mechanics

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Fundamental Principles to Complete Systems is a valuable resource for beginners, experienced researchers, and developers of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs).

Handbook of Fluid Dynamics offers balanced coverage of the three traditional areas of fluid dynamics-theoretical, computational, and experimental-complete with valuable appendices presenting the mathematics of fluid dynamics, tables of dimensionless numbers, and tables of the properties of gases and vapors.

Praise for Hemo-Dynamics: "e;This book provides an elegant and intuitive derivation of the fundamental mathematics underlying fluid flow, and then applies these in a straightforward way to pulsatile blood flow in all its complexity.

In classical mechanics, analytical dynamics, or more briefly dynamics, is concerned about the relationship between motion of bodies and its causes, namely the forces acting on the bodies and the properties of the bodies.

Dynamical systems and Nonlinear Waves in Plasmas is written in a clear and comprehensible style to serve as a compact volume for advanced postgraduate students and researchers working in the areas of Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear waves in Plasmas or other nonlinear media.

In this book, we describe in detail a numerical method to study the equilibrium and stability of a plasma confined by a strong magnetic field in toroidal geometry without two-dimensional symmetry.

Mechanics, Motion Control, Sensing and Programming, Synthesis and Design, Legged Locomotion and Biomechanical Aspects of Robots and Manipulators - world view of the state of the art.

In the last 15 years, the field of fire and gas mapping has grown extensively, yet very little is published on the subject.

In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics represents one of seven volumes of technical papers presented at the Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 12th International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, held at Costa Mesa, California, June 11-14, 2012.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

This handbook is a comprehensive source of information on all aspects of non-destructive testing (NDT), for use by professionals, educators, and most of all, by the practitioners of testing.

Introduction to Dynamical Systems and Geometric Mechanics provides a comprehensive tour of two fields that are intimately entwined: dynamical systems is the study of the behavior of physical systems that may be described by a set of nonlinear first-order ordinary differential equations in Euclidean space, whereas geometric mechanics explore similar systems that instead evolve on differentiable manifolds.

Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications offers a blend of theory and practical applications for a complete understanding of thermodynamics for various engineering applications.

This textbook is specifically designed to meet the needs of students taking the two-semester calculus-based introductory physics courses now favored in many countries around the world.

The last decade has been witness to many exciting and rapid developments in the fields of Nuclear Physics and Intermediate Energy Physics, the interface between Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics.

This book provides a unified framework for subsurface imaging based upon asymptotic and trajectory-based methods, with online software applications.

Flow Measurement Handbook is a reference for engineers on flow measurement techniques and instruments.

In this book an introduction is given to aspects of water waves that play a role in ship hydrodynamics and offshore engineering.

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

Discover the history, underpinnings, and applications of one of the most important theories in electrical engineering In Reference Frame Theory, author Paul Krause delivers a comprehensive and thorough examination of his sixty years of work in reference frame theory.

Acoustic microscopy enables the elastic properties of materials to be imaged and measured with the resolution of a good microscope.

Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer: Analysis, Design, and Applications features contributions from prominent researchers in the field of micro- and nanoscale heat transfer and associated technologies and offers a complete understanding of thermal transport in nano-materials and devices.

Zero-carbon, hydrogen-based power technology offers the most promising long-term solution for a secure and sustainable energy infrastructure.

This revised, updated edition provides a comprehensive and rigorous description of the application of Hamilton's principle to continuous media.

In recent years, interest for local energy production, supply and consumption has increased in academic and public debates.

Unique in focus, Surface Chemistry and Geochemistry of Hydraulic Fracturing examines the surface chemistry and phenomena in the hydrofracking process.

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

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984.

This series provides engineers with vapor pressure data for process design, production, and environmental applications.

This book is a concise primer on galactic radio astronomy for undergraduate and graduate students, and provides wide coverage of galactic astronomy and astrophysics such as the physics of interstellar matter and the dynamics and structure of the Milky Way Galaxy and galaxies.

This book covers fluid dynamics and fluvial processes, including basics applicable to open channel flow followed by turbulence characteristics related to sediment-laden flows.

This book studies the fundamental concept of hydrodynamics as part of theoretical physics and demonstrates the connection of macroscopic approach with the description of properties of fluid motion and microscopic kinetic theory.

In contrast to traditional combustion, gasification technologies offer the potential for converting coal and low or negative-value feedstocks, such as petroleum coke and various waste materials into usable energy sources or chemicals.

Die "Mechanik" ging aus einem gemeinsamen Kurs eines Experimentalphysikers und eines Theoretikers hervor und stellt somit einen besonderen Zugang zum Stoff dar.

A concise introductory course text on continuum mechanics Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics focuses on the fundamentals of the subject and provides the background for formulation of numerical methods for large deformations and a wide range of material behaviours.

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

This book presents a concise description of the acoustics of ocean sediment acoustics, including the latest developments that address the discrepancies between theoretical models and experimental measurements.

This monograph is devoted to the description of the physical fundamentals of laser refractography-a novel informational-measuring technique for the diagnostics of optically inhomogeneous media and flows, based on the idea of using spatially structured probe laser radiation in combination with its digital recording and c- puter techniques for the differential processing of refraction patterns.

This valuable volume provides a broad understanding of the main computational techniques used for processing reclamation of fluid and solid mechanics.

This book presents a three-dimensional model of the complete unicycle-unicyclist system.

This book provides an introduction to Newtonian and relativistic mechanics.

This volume is based on the fifth international conference of quantum bio-informatics held at the QBI Center of Tokyo University of Science.

This first volume provides the basic matters needed for understanding the thermophysical properties of metallic liquids and for developing reliable models to accurately predict the thermophysical properties of almost all metallic elements in the liquid state, together with methods for quantitative assessment of models/equations.

This primer brilliantly exposes concepts related to special and general relativity for the absolute beginner.