The book is about the key elements required for designing, building and controlling effective artificial swarms comprised of multiple moving physical agents.
This book collects chapters on contemporary topics on metric fixed point theory and its applications in science, engineering, fractals, and behavioral sciences.
In this monograph I record those parts of the theory of transverse isotropic elastic wave propagation which lend themselves to an exact treatment, within the framework of linear theory.
This volume provides resourceful thinking and insightful management solutions to the many challenges that decision makers face in their predictions, preparations, and implementations of the key elements that our societies and industries need to take as they move toward digitalization and smartness.
This book introduces the engineering application of the discrete element method (DEM), especially the simulation analysis of the typical equipment (scraper conveyor, coal silos, subsoiler) in the coal and agricultural machinery.
Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Anwender, Auszubildende, Schüler und Studenten, die anhand eines Praxisbeispiels einen Einblick in die Möglichkeiten des 3D-CAD-Systems Inventor 2008 erhalten und Vorgehensweisen beim Arbeiten mit diesem System erlernen möchten.
Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of "e;30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics"e; held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting.
Substantial effort has been drawn for years onto the development of (possibly high-order) numerical techniques for the scalar homogeneous conservation law, an equation which is strongly dissipative in L1 thanks to shock wave formation.
Deformable solids have a particularly complex character; mathematical modeling is not always simple and often leads to inextricable difficulties of computation.
Scientific visualization is a new and rapidly growing areain which efforts from computer graphics research and manyscientific and engineering disciplines are integrated.
Leicht verständlich und praxisorientiert behandelt das vorliegende Buch die wesentlichsten Gebiete der Linearen Optimierung, einem Kernbereich des Operations Research.
This volume entitled "e;European Computational Aerodynamics Research Project (ECARP)"e; contains the contributions of partners presented in two work- shops focused on the following areas: Task 3 on Optimum Design and Task 4.
Dieses bewährte Lehrbuch ist aus einem Vorlesungszyklus für Studiengänge der Ingenieur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften sowie der Informatik heraus entstanden.
This monograph presents an introduction to Harmonic Balance for nonlinear vibration problems, covering the theoretical basis, its application to mechanical systems, and its computational implementation.
In this volume, I have collected several papers which were presented at the international conference called "e;Venice-2/Symposium on Applied and In- dustrial Mathematics"e;.
Dieses Übungsbuch bringt viele Beispielaufgaben aus der Technik mit sehr ausführlichem Lösungsweg, vermittelt den Stoff anwendungsorientiert und ermöglicht ein erfolgreiches Selbststudium.
Rooted in a pedagogically successful problem-solving approach to linear algebra, this work fills a gap in the literature that is sharply divided between, on the one end, elementary texts with only limited exercises and examples, and, at the other end, books too advanced in prerequisites and too specialized in focus to appeal to a wide audience.
Diese völlig überarbeitete Neuauflage bietet dem Leser eine gründliche Einführung in die Methode der Finiten Elemente, welche heute verstärkt zur numerischen Lösung von partiellen Differentialgleichungen eingesetzt werden.
This unique book offers a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the five fundamental elements of life and society: energy, information, feedback, adaptation, and self-organization.
This book presents time synchronization and its essential role as a conduit of optimized networks and as one of the key imperatives of ubiquitous connectivity.
Ario and Zawidzki show readers how to handle symmetric structures in engineering using group-theoretic bifurcation theory as a mathematical tool for the finite element analysis of symmetric structures.
From classical foundations to modern theory, this comprehensive guide to probability interweaves mathematical proofs, historical context and detailed illustrative applications.
The book discusses basic concepts of functional analysis, measure and integration theory, calculus of variations and duality and its applications to variational problems of non-convex nature, such as the Ginzburg-Landau system in superconductivity, shape optimization models, dual variational formulations for micro-magnetism and others.
In his master thesis,Sven Painer develops, implements, and evaluates a method to reconstruct theliver surface from monocular mini-laparoscopic sequences.
Formal methods is a field of computer science that emphasizes the use of rigorous mathematical techniques for verification and design of hardware and software systems.
The book consists of 8 parts: Energy Informatics, Electric Power Engineering, Heat Power Engineering, Nuclear Power Engineering, Renewable Power Engineering, Fuels, Transport, and Environmental Safety.
The plain language style, worked examples and exercises in this book help students to understand the foundations of computational physics and engineering.
This book systematically introduces readers to the finite element analysis software DIANA (DIsplacement ANAlyzer) and its applications in civil engineering.
Die optische Ortsfiltertechnik wird vorrangig zur einkomponentigen (1C)Geschwindigkeits- und Längenbestimmung bei der berührungslosen Überwachung industrieller Prozesse angewendet.
This book deals with the general topic "e;Numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs)"e; with a focus on adaptivity of discretizations in space and time.