Physics

The second edition of this well-received handbook is the most concise yet comprehensive compilation of materials data.

Reviews and research articles summarizing a wide range of active research topics in fluid mechanics.

A reduction in the energy demand of buildings can make a major contribution to achieving national and international carbon reduction goals, in addition to addressing the interlinked issues of sustainable development, fuel poverty and fuel security.

Electron microscopy is now a mainstay characterization tool for solid state physicists and chemists as well as materials scientists.

Dyneins are molecular motors that are involved in various cellular processes, such as cilia and flagella motility, vesicular transport, and mitosis.

This volume contains review articles and original results obtained in various fields of modern science using mathematical simulation methods.

The subject of this book is the fast-developing area of research known as metamaterials/metasurfaces and some of their engineering applications.

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world.

This book is a graduate-level self-study guide of bound states in elementary particle physics and consequently in the standard model.

With its many beautiful colour pictures, this book gives fascinating insights into the unusual forms and behaviour of matter under extremely high pressures and temperatures.

It is a pleasure and an honor to offer a few words of forward to Brian Warner's guide to photometry.

Modeling Ships and Space Craft: The Science and Art of Mastering the Oceans and Sky begins with the theories of Aristotle and Archimedes, moving on to examine the work of Froude and Taylor, the early aviators and the Wright Brothers, Goddard and the other rocket men, and the computational fluid dynamic models of our time.

Secrets of the Moon: Understanding and Analysing the Lunar Surface provides a unique account of the origin of key features on the lunar surface.

During the period August 5-9, 1992, and immediately preceding the 1992 Gordon Research Conference on Motile and Contractile Systems, the "e;Third International Conference on the Structure and Function of Ubiquitous Cellular Protein Actin"e; was held at the Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, under the title "e;ACTIN '92"e;.

Spectral methods have long been popular in direct and large eddy simulation of turbulent flows, but their use in areas with complex-geometry computational domains has historically been much more limited.

Deeply rooted in fundamental research in Mathematics and Computer Science, Cellular Automata (CA) are recognized as an intuitive modeling paradigm for Complex Systems.

This book derives from the content of graduate courses on cold atomic gases, taught at the Renmin University of China and at the University of Science and Technology of China.

This book is devoted to research in the actual field of mathematical modeling in modern problems of plasma physics associated with vibrations and wake waves excited by a short high-power laser pulse.

Sound and light travel through our world in waves.

3D Printing in Radiation Oncology: Personalization of Patient Treatment Through Digital Fabrication presents a comprehensive and practical view of the many forms in which 3D printing is being integrated into radiation oncology practice.

International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology-both plant and animal.

Catalytic reactions on metals are still nowadays involved in more than half of the chemical industrial processes.

This book provides a concise and comprehensive introduction to several basic methods with more attention to their theoretical basis and applications in fluid dynamics.

This book explores the effectiveness of Dynamic Image Analysis (DIA) in granulometry studies of sand, and presents criteria for soil characterization using DIA, including test parameters, specimen size, efficacy in gap-graded soils, and its limitations.

This book is about quantum phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) electron systems with extremely strong internal interactions.

Semiconductor Gas Sensors, Second Edition, summarizes recent research on basic principles, new materials and emerging technologies in this essential field.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2019), held in Toronto, Canada, on July 30-August 1, 2019, and jointly organized by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

This book contains the edited versions of most of the papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Boundary Elements held at the University of Stuttgart, Germany from August 31st to September 4th, 1987, which was organized in co-operation with the Computational Mechanics Institute and GAMM (Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics).

Current standard numerical methods are of little use in solving mathematical problems involving boundary layers.

Originally published in 1982.

This book treats the problem of phase transitions, emphasizing the generality and universality of the methods and models used.

The Advances in Chemical Physics series provides the chemical physics and physical chemistry fields with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

Low Energy Particle Accelerator-Based Technologies and Their Applications describes types of low energy accelerators, presents some of the main manufacturers, illustrates some of the accelerator laboratories around the globe and shows examples of successful transfers of accelerators to needed laboratories.

This book aims to present a pedagogical and self-consistent treatment of the canonical approach to Quantum Gravity, starting from its original formulation to the most recent developments in the field.

Differential geometry and topology have become essential tools for many theoretical physicists.

This book considers a cylindrical phased array with microstrip patch antenna elements and half-wavelength dipole antenna elements.

Vistas in Astronomy

In regard to global change, emphasis is generally placed on the increase in global temperature, but large changes in the distribution of precipitation are also likely to occur.

Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds.

How can we predict and explain the phenomena of nature?

Este libro trata fundamentalmente de las bases moleculares de algunas de las importantes propiedades termodinámicas de los gases -en particular, la presión, la temperatura y la energía térmica.

This textbook is a pedagogic introduction to a number of phenomena employing fluid mechanics.

This book grew out of a course taught in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, which was tailored to the needs of the applied community of mathematicians, engineers, physicists etc.

How can society quickly convert to renewable energy?