Classical mechanics

This book aims to describe in simple terms the new area of statistical mechanics known as spin-glasses, encompassing systems in which quenched disorder is the dominant factor.

The state of the art in a theory of oscillatory and wave phenomena in hydrodynamical flows is presented in this book.

This is the first book on explosion-generated water waves.

This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents.

This is a collection of papers dedicated to Prof T C Woo to mark his 70th birthday.

This book deals with the bifurcation and chaotic aspects of damped and driven nonlinear oscillators.

The present volume is an updated version of the book edited by C N Yang and M L Ge on the topics of braid groups and knot theory, which are related to statistical mechanics.

This book comprises a set of lecture notes on rational mechanics, for part of the graduate physics curriculum, delivered by the late Prof.

Friction force microscopy is an important analytical tool in the field of tribology on the nanometer-scale.

The motion of mechanical systems undergoing rotation about a fixed axis has been the subject of extensive studies over a few centuries.

This invaluable book presents a concise but systematic account of the formation of spatial flow structures in a horizontal fluid layer heated from below.

The dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories worldwide with ever-increasing sophistication of modeling, analysis and experiments.

Through a series of examples from physics, engineering, biology and economics, this book illustrates the enormous potential for application of ideas and concepts from nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory.

This book presents some recent mathematical developments about neutron transport equations.

This volume deals with the propagation of three-dimensional shock waves and their reflection from curved walls.

The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories world-wide with ever-increasing sophistication of experiments and analysis.

The interaction of acoustic fields with submerged elastic structures, both by propagation and scattering, is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories world-wide with ever-increasing sophistication of experiments and analysis.

The book comprises a broad panorama of phenomena occurring in four major classes of radiophysical and mechanical systems - linear, nonlinear, parametric, and nonlinear-parametric.

This important book deals with vibrational mechanics - the new, intensively developing section of nonlinear dynamics and the theory of nonlinear oscillations.

This book is a collection of recent reprints and new material on fundamentally nonlinear problems in structural systems which demonstrate localized responses to continuous inputs.

This book analyzes in considerable generality the quantization-dequantization integral transform scheme of Weyl and Wigner, and considers several phase operator theories.

In this invaluable book, macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics is presented in its realm and its splendor by appealing to the notion of internal variables of state.

Recent advances have shown wavelets to be an effective, and even necessary, mathematical tool for theoretical physics.

Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded edition of the bestselling Handbook first published in 1999 is aimed at the design and operation of modern accelerators including Linacs, Synchrotrons and Storage Rings.

Scientific Editor & Translator E B Kremer (St.

This book presents in a unified way modern geometric methods in analytical mechanics based on the application of fibre bundles, jet manifold formalism and the related concept of connection.

The first volume of Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics was published in 1994 and was dedicated to Prof Antony Jameson.

This book is devoted to the theory of chaotic oscillations in mechanical systems.

This is both a textbook and a monograph.

This volume collects the articles presented at the Third International Conference on "e;The Navier-Stokes Equations: Theory and Numerical Methods"e;, held in Oberwolfach, Germany.

This important and timely book deals with the theoretical and experimental investigation of the phase transitions which occur in complex fluid systems, namely lyotropic systems, microemulsions, colloids, biological membranes, and ferrofluids.

In the past hundred years investigators have learned the significance of complex behavior in deterministic systems.

This book, an outgrowth of the author's distinguished lecture series in Japan in 1995, identifies and describes current results and issues in certain areas of computational fluid dynamics, mathematical physics, and linear algebra.

This book is devoted to the classical and quantum phases in wave and particle optics from the viewpoint of both theory and applications.

Bifurcation and chaos has dominated research in nonlinear dynamics for over two decades, and numerous introductory and advanced books have been published on this subject.

Recent advances in the quantum theory of macroscopic systems have brightened up the field and brought it into the focus of a general community in natural sciences.

This book provides a concise description of the current status of a fascinating scientific problem - the inverse variational problem in classical mechanics.

This series of volumes constitutes an outstanding collection of contributions by the most active research workers in the area of acoustics and mechanics.

Vortex methods have been developed and applied to many kinds of flows related to various problems in wide engineering and scientific fields.

This book constitutes a comprehensive survey of the balance equations for mass, momentum and energy for the interfaces in pure fluids and mixtures.

This book introduces needed theoretical instruments and offers an up-to-date discussion on fundamental physics as well as the experimental tools used and developed for the construction and exploitation of gravitational wave antennae (resonant bars, ground-based and space interferometric detectors).

This book consists of 20 review articles dedicated to Prof.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics.

This volume presents recent advances in computational fluid dynamics.

Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are recognized for their versatility and efficiency in controlling and processing electrical signals.

This book is centered on the two minicourses conducted by C Liverani (Rome) and J Sjoestrand (Paris) on the return to equilibrium in classical statistical mechanics and the location of quantum resonances via semiclassical analysis, respectively.

Quantum liquids in confined geometries exhibit a large variety of new and interesting phenomena.

The dynamics of dissipative mechanical and structural systems is being investigated at various institutions and laboratories worldwide with ever-increasing sophistication of modeling, analysis and experiments.

The International Conference on Noise in Physical Systems and 1/f Fluctuations brings together physicists and engineers interested in all aspects of noise and fluctuations in materials, devices, circuits, and physical and biological systems.

New Edition: Electromagnetic Analysis Using Transmission Line Variables (3rd Edition)Problems in electromagnetic propagation, especially those with complex geometries, have traditionally been solved using numerical methods, such as the method of finite differences.