Classical mechanics

This book is an inspirational introduction to modern research directions and scholarship in nonlinear dynamics, and will also be a valuable reference for researchers in the field.

This book gives a detailed, up-to-date account of the Lense-Thirring effect and its implications for physics and astrophysics.

This book is aimed at a large audience: scientists, engineers, professors and students wise enough to keep a critical stance whenever confronted with the chilling dogmas of contemporary physics.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th Hellenic Relativity Conference, held in Greece in 2002.

The ICTCA conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for active researchers in academia and industry who are of varying backgrounds to discuss the state-of-the-art developments and results in theoretical and computational acoustics and related topics.

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics.

Frustrated spin systems have been first investigated five decades ago.

Turbulence is the most fundamental and, simultaneously, the most complex form of fluid flow.

The ICTCA conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for active researchers in academia and industry who are of varying backgrounds to discuss the state-of-the-art developments and results in theoretical and computational acoustics and related topics.

Bell anchored the logic chain begun by Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky and tested by Aspect et al.

The Ginzburg-Landau equation as a mathematical model of superconductors has become an extremely useful tool in many areas of physics where vortices carrying a topological charge appear.

This comprehensive volume covers the most recent advances in the field of spin physics, including the latest research in high energy and nuclear physics and the study of nuclear spin structure.

Honoring the contributions of one of the field's leading experts, Lu Ting, this indispensable volume contains important new results at the cutting edge of research.

This textbook describes the fundamental "e;physical"e; aspects of fluid flows for beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the point of view of modern physics.

The series of volumes to which this book belongs honors contributors who have made a major impact in computational fluid dynamics.

This is a book about the history of the science of inertia.

The book contains recent contributions in the field of waves propagation and stability in continuous media.

This book presents a new theory on the transition to dynamical chaos for two-dimensional nonautonomous, and three-dimensional, many-dimensional and infinitely-dimensional autonomous nonlinear dissipative systems of differential equations including nonlinear partial differential equations and differential equations with delay arguments.

This book brings together several contributions from leading experts in the field of nonlinear wave propagation.

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on "e;Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation' from November 2004 to January 2005.

This book discusses the subject of wave/current flow around a cylinder, the forces induced on the cylinder by the flow, and the vibration pattern of slender structures in a marine environment.

With the increasing awareness of the heavy burden placed on environmental resources and the need for industry and public institutions to cope with more stringent regulations, this timely book focuses on some specific, but very important, environmental problems, namely, surface and subsurface hydrosystems.

This volume is the fifth in a series of proceedings which started in 1999.

Exact analytical solutions in some areas of solid mechanics, in particular problems in the theory of plates, have long been regarded as bottlenecks in the development of elasticity.

This book aims to prove that the so-called "e;energy crisis"e; is really an entropy crisis.

The classical theory of electromagnetism is entirely revised in this book by proposing a variant of Maxwell equations that allows solitonic solutions (photons).

From August 29 to September 7, 2006, a large group of distinguished lecturers and young physicists coming from various countries around the world met in Erice, Italy, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) for the 44th course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics: "e;The Logic of Nature, Complexity and New Physics: From Quark-Gluon Plasma to Superstrings, Quantum Gravity and Beyond"e;.

This book contains the general description of the mathematical pendulum subject to constant torque, periodic and random forces.

The book provides an original approach in the research of structural analysis of free developed shear compressible turbulence at high Reynolds number on the base of direct numerical simulation (DNS) and instability evolution for ideal medium (integral conservation laws) with approximate mechanism of dissipation (FLUX dissipative monotone "e;upwind"e; difference schemes) and does not use any explicit sub-grid approximation and semi-empirical models of turbulence.

A systematic study of chaotic ray dynamics in underwater acoustic waveguides began in the mid-1990s when it was realized that this factor plays a crucial role in long-range sound propagation in the ocean.

Multi-Scale Phenomena in Complex Fluids is a collection of lecture notes delivered during the first two series of mini-courses from "e;Shanghai Summer School on Analysis and Numerics in Modern Sciences"e;, which was held in 2004 and 2006 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

This book is devoted to analysis of Monte Carlo methods developed in rarefied gas dynamics.

This is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the mathematical problems of thermal convection.

This book focuses on dynamic antiplane problems of piezoelectric ceramics.

Environmental fluid mechanics (EFM) is the scientific study of transport, dispersion and transformation processes in natural fluid flows on our planet Earth, from the microscale to the planetary scale.

The Proceedings of the 1st Conference on New Trends in Fluid and Solid Models provide an overview of results and new models in fluid dynamics and, in general, in continuum mechanics.

From 29 August to 7 September 2007, a large group of distinguished lecturers and young physicists from various countries met in Erice, Italy, at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture (EMFCSC) to attend the 45th Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics: "e;Search for the 'Totally Unexpected' in the LHC era"e;.

This book highlights the failure theories and evaluation techniques of thermal barrier coatings, covering the thermal-mechanical-chemical coupling theories, performance and damage characterization techniques, and related evaluations.

The interaction of a fluid with a solid body is a widespread phenomenon in nature, occurring at different scales and different applied disciplines.

The objective of this book is to introduce new researchers to the rich dynamical system of water waves, and to show how (some) abstract mathematical concepts can be applied fruitfully in a practical physical problem and to make the connection between theory and experiment.

The book "e;Channeling 2008"e;, Charged and Neutral Particles Channeling Phenomena, is formed by the same title conference contributions.

This book consists of important contributions by world-renowned experts on adaptive high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

This volume contains 25 review articles by experts which provide up-to-date information about the recent progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Pendulum is the simplest nonlinear system, which, however, provides the means for the description of different phenomena in Nature that occur in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, communications, economics and sociology.

This is one of the very few books focusing on relativistic statistical mechanics, and is written by a leading expert in this special field.

This book is a compilation of the lectures for a one-semester course on gravitation at the University of Rochester.

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

The focus of this is on the latest developments related to the analysis of problems in which several scales are presented.

The book consists of two separate parts, the first part is on waves and the second part on particles.

The standard (Markovian) transport model based on the Boltzmann equation cannot describe some non-equilibrium processes called anomalous that take place in many disordered solids.