Classical mechanics

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

Although the mathematical theory of nonlinear waves and solitons has made great progress, its applications to concrete physical problems are rather poor, especially when compared with the classical theory of linear dispersive waves and nonlinear fluid motion.

This book deals with the dynamics of mechanical systems in presence of impact and friction.

This series of volumes on the "e;Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics"e; was introduced to honor contributors who have made a major impact on the field.

This book, based on presentations made at the international conference Fractals 2002, is of interest to everyone in the general field of nonlinear dynamics.

This book contains 67 papers presented at ICTCA2001.

First organized in 1981, the WASCOM conference to bring together researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss problems, promote collaborations and shape future directions for research in the field of stability and wave propagation in continuous media.

This volume is dedicated to Jiri Bicak on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The International Conference of Computational Harmonic Analysis, held in Hong Kong during the period of June 4 - 8, 2001, brought together mathematicians and engineers interested in the computational aspects of harmonic analysis.

This book surveys analytical and numerical techniques appropriate to the description of fluid motion with an emphasis on the most widely used techniques exhibiting the best performance.

This volume contains recent research papers presented at the international workshop on "e;Probabilistic Methods in Fluids"e; held in Swansea.

This book systematically discusses the modern theory of propagation and interaction of elastic waves in solids with microstructure.

This book concerns the mathematical analysis - modeling physical concepts, existence, uniqueness, stability, asymptotics, computational schemes, etc.

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 captures the essence of the current state of research in wavelet analysis and its applications, and identifies the changes and opportunities - both current and future - 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.

Hydroinformatics addresses cross-disciplinary issues ranging from technological and sociological to more general environmental concerns, including an ethical perspective.

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.