Other technologies and applied sciences

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal engineering.

The aim of this book is to explain, analyze and compute the kinds of motions that appear in an extended vicinity of the geometrically defined equilateral points of the Earth-Moon system, as a source of possible nominal orbits for future space missions.

This book studies several problems related to the analysis of planned or possible spacecraft missions.

Foreword by Charles H TownesThis volume includes highlights of the theories underlying the essential phenomena occurring in novel semiconductor lasers as well as the principles of operation of selected heterostructure lasers.

It is well known that the restricted three-body problem has triangular equilibrium points.

In this book the problem of station keeping is studied for orbits near libration points in the solar system.

This book describes advances in both experimental and theoretical treatments in the field of energy transfer processes that are relevant to various fields, such as spectroscopy, laser technology, phosphors, artificial solar energy conversion, and photobiology.

This book presents a theoretical treatment, as well as a summary of practical methods of computation, of the forces and moments that act on marine craft.

The XV International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy.

The use of pattern recognition has become more and more important in seismic oil exploration.

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal oceanographic engineering.

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of design and applications of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA).

Laser cleaning is very important for modern high technology.

This book is a useful source of ideas and information for scientists whose work involves understanding and modelling turbulent flows with free surfaces.

This book presents a wide range of recent advances in hydraulics and water engineering.

This volume of original papers has been assembled to honor the achievements of Professor Thomas S Huang in the area of image processing and image analysis.

Modern defence forces rely mainly on intelligent information systems and high technology armour.

Optical communications networks are becoming increasingly important as there is demand for high capacity links.

This book contains more than 300 papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, held in Cardiff, Wales, in July 2002.

Infrared technologies are very important for a wide range of military, scientific and commercial applications.

The last research frontier in high frequency electronics now lies in the so-called THz (or submillimeter-wave) regime between the traditional microwave and infrared domains.

Vibration is a natural phenomenon that occurs in a variety of engineering systems.

This book presents the state of the art in numerical and analytical techniques as well as future trends associated with mission design for libration point orbits.

The last research frontier in high frequency electronics lies in the so-called terahertz (or submillimeter wave) regime, between the traditional microwave and the infrared domains.

This book focuses on: (1) the physics of the fundamental dynamics of fluids and of semi-immersed Lagrangian solid bodies that are responding to wave-induced loads; (2) the scaling of dimensional equations and boundary value problems in order to determine a small dimensionless parameter I that may be applied to linearize the equations and the boundary value problems so as to obtain a linear system; (3) the replacement of differential and integral calculus with algebraic equations that require only algebraic substitutions instead of differentiations and integrations; and (4) the importance of comparing numerical and analytical computations with data from laboratories and/or nature.

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries.

This volume comprises a collection of invited and selected contributions presented at the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy in Palm Cove, Queensland, Australia, 13-18 July 2003.

During World War II, nations raced to construct the world's first nuclear weapon that would determine the future of the world.

This is the first book on tunable external cavity semiconductor diode lasers, providing an up-to-date survey on the physics, technology, and performance of widely applicable coherent radiation sources of tunable external cavity diode lasers.

This volume introduces particle image velocimetry (PIV), a technique for water wave measurement in the laboratory and in the open ocean.

This volume concerns the latest results on pulsed plasma production by energetic laser pulses irradiating solid targets.

Optical beams are electromagnetic waves that remain essentially concentrated around a mean axis upon free propagation or that are guided by suitable structures.

Reservoir simulation, or modeling, is one of the most powerful techniques currently available to the reservoir engineer.

Dynamics of Coastal Systems is about the dynamic interaction between water motion and seabed topography, which affects the natural response of coastal systems to change in external conditions and to human interventions - from the scale of seabed ripples up to the scale of entire barrier and delta systems.

This comprehensive and up-to-date volume contains 367 papers presented at the 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 19-24 September 2004.

This invaluable book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design and applications of the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA).

This book is an exposition of classical mechanics and relativity that addresses the question of whether it is possible to send probes to extrasolar systems.

This Proceedings contains 445 papers presented at the 30th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, which was held in San Diego, California, USA, 3-8 September 2006.

This book deals with the fundamentals of wave optics, polarization, interference, diffraction, imaging, and the origin, properties, and optical effects of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

In September 2006, research leaders in the field of coastal engineering, fluid mechanics, and wave theory met at Cornell University to celebrate the 60th birthday of Prof.

The explosion of data arising from rapid advances in communication, sensing and computational power has concentrated research effort on more advanced techniques for the representation, processing, analysis and interpretation of data sets.

This review volume is divided into two parts.

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.

This book provides the reader with a unique opportunity to understand the basic and applied research and technology areas that support applications to enable Transformational capabilities for US Soldiers.

Laser Cleaning II is the second of a series of books reporting research on the use of lasers for cleaning material surfaces and related micro-scale and nano-scale laser processing.

This proceedings volume presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and application of nanostructures, which hold great promise for the new generation of electronic and optoelectronic devices.

This book presents the latest developments and issues in both experimental and theoretical studies of multi-photon processes and the spectroscopy of atoms, ions and molecules in physics, chemistry, biology and material science.

The eighteenth International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy was held on 24-29 June 2007 in Telluride, Colorado.

This volume presents information on the exciting breakthroughs and the very quickly evolving fields of research in laser science and applications.

This handbook contains a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances in ocean waves, coastal, and ocean engineering.