Mathematical physics

This book discusses the mechanical properties of ceramics and aims to provide both a solid background for undergraduate students, as well as serving as a text to bring practicing engineers up to date with the latest developments in this topic so they can use and apply these to their actual engineering work.

This book provides readers with modern computational techniques for solving variety of problems from electrical, mechanical, civil and chemical engineering.

A certain curious feature of random objects, introduced by the author as "e;super concentration,"e; and two related topics, "e;chaos"e; and "e;multiple valleys,"e; are highlighted in this book.

This book presents the potential of the Monte Carlo (MC) technique to solve mathematical and physical problems of great complexity.

This monograph provides graduate students and also professional researchers aiming to understand the dynamics of open quantum systems with a valuable and self-contained toolbox.

Leonardo wrote, "e;Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences, because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics"e;; replace "e;Mechanics"e; by "e;Fluid mechanics"e; and here we are.

This monograph is dedicated to the derivation and analysis of fluid models occurring in plasma physics.

This book is an introduction to the theory of Hilbert space, a fundamental tool for non-relativistic quantum mechanics.

In this PhD thesis, which was nominated for publication in this series by the Astronomical Institute at Charles University, Prague, the author investigates the orbital evolution of an initially thin stellar disc around a supermassive black hole, considering various perturbative sources of gravity.

This textbook presents the physical principles pertinent to the mathematical modeling of soft materials used in engineering practice, including both man-made materials and biological tissues.

This book presents contributions to the 18th biannual symposium of the German Aerospace Aerodynamics Association (STAB).

In these lecture notes, we will analyze the behavior of random walk on disordered media by means of both probabilistic and analytic methods, and will study the scaling limits.

The high reliability required in industrial processes has created the necessity of detecting abnormal conditions, called faults, while processes are operating.

This volume contains the proceedings from the conference "e;The Labyrinth of Star Formation"e; that was held in Crete, Greece, in June 2012, to honour the contributions to the study of star formation made by Professor Anthony Whitworth of Cardiff University.

The book represents a basic support for a master course in electromagnetism oriented to numerical simulation.

This edited book presents the problems of time and direction from an interdisciplinary point of view, concentrating in particular on the following relations:* Time and physics* Time, philosophy and psychology* Time, mathematics and information theoryIt is a unique contribution by philosophers and scientists who are active in mathematics, physics, biology, engineering, information theory and psychology.

This is the seventh volume in a series on the general topics of supersymmetry, supergravity, black objects (including black holes) and the attractor mechanism.

This monograph presents, for the first time, a unified and comprehensive introduction to some of the basic transport properties of porous media, such as electrical and hydraulic conductivity, air permeability and diffusion.

The fourth edition of this successful textbook presents a comprehensive introduction to statistical and numerical methods for the evaluation of empirical and experimental data.

Advanced materials are the basis of modern science and technology.

This volume presents the results of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis that can be used for conceptual studies of product design, detail product development, process troubleshooting.

This book describes the theoretical and computational aspects of the mimetic finite difference method for a wide class of multidimensional elliptic problems, which includes diffusion, advection-diffusion, Stokes, elasticity, magnetostatics and plate bending problems.

In 2013 several scientific activities have been devoted to mathematical researches for the study of planet Earth.

This book covers recent mathematical, numerical, and statistical approaches for multistatic imaging of targets with waves at single or multiple frequencies.

These lecture notes study the interplay between randomness and geometry of graphs.

This volume contains the proceedings from two closely related workshops: Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI'13) and Mathematical Methods from Brain Connectivity (MMBC'13), held under the auspices of the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, which took place in Nagoya, Japan, September 2013.

This monograph focuses on the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for linear hyperbolic systems with matrix coefficients.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in simulation on supercomputers.

This monograph addresses the state of the art of reduced order methods for modeling and computational reduction of complex parametrized systems, governed by ordinary and/or partial differential equations, with a special emphasis on real time computing techniques and applications in computational mechanics, bioengineering and computer graphics.

The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development and design of novel applications.

Symplectic and contact geometry naturally emerged from themathematical description of classical physics.

In this text, a theory for general linear parabolic partial differential equations is established which covers equations with inhomogeneous symbol structure as well as mixed-order systems.

This thesis describes the development of biophysically detailed computer models of the human atria and torso to study the underlying mechanisms of cardiac diseases, some of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality.

Theory of Nonlinear Propagation of High Harmonics Generated in a Gaseous Medium establishes the theoretical tools to study High-Order Harmonic Generation (HHG) by intense ultrafast infrared lasers in atoms and molecules.

This book is a collection of carefully reviewed papers presented during the HP-SEE User Forum, the meeting of the High-Performance Computing Infrastructure for South East Europe's (HP-SEE) Research Communities, held in October 17-19, 2012, in Belgrade, Serbia.

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In this "e;SpringerBrief"e; the author considers the underlying problems and questions that are common to numerical models of turbulence in different astrophysical systems.

This thesis presents the first measurements of jets in relativistic heavy ion collisions as reported by the ATLAS Collaboration.

When predictions of Einstein's theory of General Relativity are compared against observations of our Universe, a huge inconsistency is found.

The model investigated in this work, a particular cellular automaton with stochastic evolution, was introduced as the simplest case of self-organized-criticality, that is, a dynamical system which shows algebraic long-range correlations without any tuning of parameters.

A large part of the research currently being conducted in the fields of materials science and engineering mechanics is devoted to carbon nanotubes and their applications.

The author develops a new perturbative formalism of non-equilibrium thermal quantum field theory for non-homogeneous backgrounds.

The goal of this book is to expose the reader to the indispensable role that mathematics plays in modern physics.

Neutrinos continue to be the most mysterious and, arguably, the most fascinating particles of the Standard Model as their intrinsic properties such as absolute mass scale and CP properties are unknown.

Scattering amplitudes are fundamental and rich observables in quantum field theory.

Ion Correlations at Electrified Soft Matter Interfaces presents an investigation that combines experiments, theory, and computer simulations to demonstrate that the interdependency between ion correlations and other ion interactions in solution can explain the distribution of ions near an electrified liquid/liquid interface.

The basics of computer algebra and the language of Mathematica are described in this textbook, leading towards an understanding of Mathematica that allows the reader to solve problems in physics, mathematics, and chemistry.

The theory of incompressible multipolar viscous fluids is a non-Newtonian model of fluid flow, which incorporates nonlinear viscosity, as well as higher order velocity gradients, and is based on scientific first principles.

Fluid flows are characterized by uncertain inputs such as random initial data, material and flux coefficients, and boundary conditions.

This is the first book to systematically consider the modern aspects of chaotic dynamics of magnetic field lines and charged particles in magnetically confined fusion plasmas.