Maths for engineers

This book gathers the carefully reviewed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Systems Science, presenting recent research findings in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Communication/Networking and Information Technology, Control Theory, Decision Support, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Optimization Techniques, Pattern Recognition, Robotics, Service Science, Web-based Services, Uncertain Systems and Transportation Systems.

This book presents original studies describing the latest research and developments in the area of reliability and systems engineering.

This book presents the theory of waves propagation in a fluid-saturated porous medium (a Biot medium) and its application in Applied Geophysics.

This monograph presents controllability and stabilization methods in control theory that solve parabolic boundary value problems.

This book represents a collection of papers presented at the 2nd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), a specialty conference organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

This book presents a collection of papers presented at the 3rd World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), a specialty conference organized by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS).

The book presents recently developed efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithms and their applications for solving various optimization problems in civil engineering.

One of the most important routes to chaos is the chaotic intermittency.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in supercomputer simulation.

This new edition presents a thorough discussion of the mathematical theory and computational schemes of Kalman filtering.

This new edition describes all the mechanisms of elastic and inelastic scattering of electrons with the atoms of the target as simple as possible.

This book presents theory and latest application work in Bond Graph methodology with a focus on:*      Hybrid dynamical system models,*      Model-based fault diagnosis, model-based fault tolerant control, fault prognosis*      and also addresses*      Open thermodynamic systems with compressible fluid flow,*      Distributed parameter models of mechanical subsystems.

This volume spans a wide range of technical disciplines and technologies, including complex systems, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, energy, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and computer science.

The book presents the state of the art in high-performance computing and simulation on modern supercomputer architectures.

This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics.

Developments in the connected fields of solid state physics, bioengineering, mechatronics and nanometrology have had a profound effect on the emergence of modern technologies and their influence on our lives.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on forming processes and formed metal product development aided by the Finite Element Method (FEM).

This book is dedicated to Professor Selim G.

This book presents efficient metaheuristic algorithms for optimal design of structures.

This book addresses recent technological progress that has led to an increased complexity in many natural and artificial systems.

This book develops applications of novel generalizations of fuzzy information measures in the field of pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, multi-criteria and multi-attribute decision making and suitability in linguistic variables.

This book constitutes the first treatment of C.

This book contains the proceedings as well as invited papers for the first annual conference of the UNESCO Unitwin Complex System Digital Campus (CSDC), which is an international initiative gathering 120 Universities on four continents, and structured in ten E-Departments.

Dimensional Analysis and Physical Similarity are well understood subjects, and the general concepts of dynamical similarity are explained in this book.

This book concerns the most up-to-date advances in computational transport phenomena (CTP), an emerging tool for the design of gas-solid processes such as fluidized bed systems.

This book collects papers from the 8th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications that have been held on September 20-21, 2016 in Zakopane, Poland.

This textbook presents numerical solution techniques for incompressible turbulent flows that occur in a variety of scientific and engineering settings including aerodynamics of ground-based vehicles and low-speed aircraft, fluid flows in energy systems, atmospheric flows, and biological flows.

This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes.

These proceedings contain research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in Bremen, Germany, February 2016.

This book spotlights how women leaders behave in chaotic environments and features examples of women who have been key figures in determining complex socio-economic outcomes throughout history.

This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems.

This book compiles solutions of linear theory of elasticity problems for isotropic and anisotropic bodies with sharp and rounded notches.

The revised edition of this advanced textbook provides the reader with a solid grounding in the formalism of classical mechanics, underlying a number of powerful mathematical methods that are widely used in modern theoretical and mathematical physics.

Our world is composed of systems within systems-the machines we build, the information we share, the organizations we form, and elements of nature that surround us.

Systems are everywhere and we are surrounded by them.

This text, now in its second edition, presents the mathematical background needed to design many optical combinations that are used in astronomical telescopes and cameras.

This volume results from the "e;Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters"e; held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015.

This monograph investigates violations of statistical stability of physical events, variables, and processes and develops a new physical-mathematical theory taking into consideration such violations - the theory of hyper-random phenomena.

This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series.

This book examines discrete dynamical systems with memory-nonlinear systems that exist extensively in biological organisms and financial and economic organizations, and time-delay systems that can be discretized into the memorized, discrete dynamical systems.

This book for the first time examines periodic motions to chaos in time-delay systems, which exist extensively in engineering.

This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties and the variability of the dependent variables in the 3D counterparts.

This book offers a short and concise introduction to the many facets of chaos theory.

This course-tested primer provides graduate students and non-specialists with a basic understanding of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and demonstrates their wide range of applications to interdisciplinary topics in the field of complex system sciences, including selected aspects of theoretical modeling in biology and the social sciences.

The book presents a state-of-the-art overview of biomechanical and mechanobiological modeling and simulation of soft biological tissues.

This book gathers selected contributions on emerging research work presented at the International Conference eXtended Discretization MethodS (X-DMS), held in Ferrara in September 2015.

This textbook provides a fast-track pathway to numerical implementation of phase-field modeling-a relatively new paradigm that has become the method of choice for modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in materials.

This contributed volume celebrates the work of Tayfun E.

This volume sheds light on the current state of complex networks and nonlinear dynamics applied to the understanding of economic and social phenomena ranging from geographical economics to macroeconomics and finance, and its purpose is to give readers an overview of several interesting topics for research at an intermediate level.

Focused on recent advances, this book covers theoretical foundations as well as various applications.