Physics

Proceedings of the Eleventh Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mossbauer Effect, La Plata, Argentina, 9-14 November 2008.

A fundamental question in contemporary astrophysics is the origin of the elements.

An outgrowth of the first Asia-Pacific Regional School on the International Heliophysical Year (IHY), this volume contains a collection of review articles describing the universal physical processes in the heliospace influenced by solar electromagnetic and mass emissions.

In recent years there have been great advances in the fields of laboratory and astronomical spectroscopy.

Advances in the synthesis of new materials with often complex, nano-scaled structures require increasingly sophisticated experimental techniques that can probe the electronic states, the atomic magnetic moments and the magnetic microstructures responsible for the properties of these materials.

Present Your Research to the World!

This book covers the results of the Tera op Workbench, other projects related to High Performance Computing, and the usage of HPC installations at HLRS.

The interest in the field of active flow control (AFC) is steadily increasing.

This book represents Volume II of the Proceedings of the UN/ESA/NASA Workshop on the International Heliophysical Year 2007 and Basic Space Science, hosted by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, 18 - 22 June, 2007.

QUANTUMCOMM 2009--the International Conference on Quantum Communi- tion and Quantum Networking (from satellite to nanoscale)--took place in Vico Equense near Naples, Italy, during October 26-30, 2009.

The aim of the present book is to show, in a broad and yet deep way, the state of the art in computational science and engineering.

This volume contains description of experimental and numerical results obtained in the UFAST project.

Astronomy is a scienti?

"e;Advanced Tribology"e; is the proceedings of the 5th China International Symposium on Tribology (held every four years) and the 1st International Tribology Symposium of IFToMM, held in Beijing 24th-27th September 2008.

This book was compiled from contributions given at the 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, May 4-8, 2009, Berlin (IAA - International Academy of Astronautics).

This third issue on "e;progress in turbulence"e; is based on the third ITI conference (ITI interdisciplinary turbulence initiative), which took place in Bertinoro, North Italy.

Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mossbauer Effect (ISIAME 2008) held in Budapest, Hungary, 17-22 August 2008E.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Quantum Interaction, QI 2009, held in Saarbrucken, Germany, in March 2009.

It is over a quarter of a century since the discovery of out?

Solar physics in India has a tradition that can be traced to the setting up of the Kodaikanal Observatory in 1899 when the Madras Observatory was relocated to a high altitude site with a view to initiate observations of the sun.

We are delighted to present this book which contains the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD5), held in Seoul, Korea from July 7 through 11, 2008.

In 2003 the German Research Foundation established a new priority programme on the subject of "e;Imaging Measurement Methods for Flow Analysis"e; (SPP 1147).

"e;Fluid Machinery and Fluid Mechanics: 4th International Symposium (4th ISFMFE)"e; is the proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Fluid Machinery and Fluid Engineering, held in Beijing November 24-27, 2008.

Non Destructive Testing and Non Destructive Evaluation using Ultrasounds covers an important field of applications and requires a wide range of fundamental theoretical, numerical and experimental investigations.

Subduction is a major process that plays a first-order role in the dynamics of the Earth.

Ultrafast Phenomena XVI presents the latest advances in ultrafast science, including both ultrafast optical technology and the study of ultrafast phenomena.

"e;Electrostatic Precipitation"e; includes selected papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation.

Proceedings of the 10th Latin American Conference on the Applications of the Mossbauer Effect (LACAME 2006) held in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, 5-9 November 2006.

The discussions and plans on all scienti?

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Hyperfine Interactions and 18th International Symposium on Nuclear Quadrupole Interactions, HFI/NQI 2004, held in Iguazu Falls, Brazil, 5-10 August, 2007.

The 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves in Gottingen, Germany was jointly organised by the German Aerospace Centre DLR and the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis ISL.

The 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves in Gottingen, Germany was jointly organised by the German Aerospace Centre DLR and the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis ISL.

"e;Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation"e; presents the latest developments and case studies in the field.

In recent years, scientists have applied the principles of complex systems science to increasingly diverse fields.

Disordered nature of structural arrangement in amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys gives rise to advantageous soft magnetic properties in particular from a practical application viewpoint [1].

Hermann Schlichting is one of the internationally leading scientists in the field of th fluid mechanics during the 20 century.

Preface "e;In aircraft design, efficiency is determined by the ability to accurately and rel- bly predict the occurrence of, and to model the development of, turbulent flows.

In a wide variety of applications, accurate simulation of particle transport is necessary whether those particles be photons, neutrinos, or charged par- cles.

The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration workshop brought together more than 120 participants with the objective to a) foster the sharing of information, experience and techniques between observers, instrument developers and instrument operation teams, b) review the actual precision and limitations of the applied instrument calibration plans, and c) collect the current and future requirements by the ESO users.

In the context of the NASA Deep Impact space mission, comet 9P/Tempel1 has been at the focus of an unprecedented worldwide long-term multi-wavelength observation campaign.

This book covers the results obtained in the Tera op Workbench project during a four years period from 2004 to 2008.