Maths for engineers

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers and industrial practitioners, this book provides comprehensive case studies on numerical computing of industrial processes and step-by-step procedures for conducting industrial computing.

This unique book that deals with project communication management in complex environments, taking a leaf from China's experience with a major earthquake in Sichuan, would be a timely contribution to fill this lacuna.

The Challenge of Reframing Engineering Education is the first book to document the experience of implementing the CDIO Engineering Educational Framework in a large educational institution in the Asian context.

Over the last two decades, topological ideas have found increasingly more applications in quantum field theory.

This is a collection of lectures by leading research mathematicians on the very latest work on qualitative theory of solutions of dynamical systems, ordinary differential equations, delay-differential equations, Volterra integrodifferential equations and partial differential equations.

The contents of this volume consist of 15 lectures on mathematics and its applications which include the following topics: dynamics of neural network, phase transition of cellular automata, homoclinic bifurcations, ergodic theories of low dimensional dynamical systems, Anosov endomorphisms and Anosov flows, axiom A systems, complex dynamical systems, multi-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems and holomorphic vector fields.

In last thirty years an explosion of interest in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems occured.

This volume puts together several important lectures on the Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics to form a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on the subject.

NEEDs '92 was held in Dubna, Russia in July 1992.

The proceedings contain a range of papers dealing with different issues relating to the theme of the workshop.

This volume contains papers, contributed by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines, on the application of nonlinear dynamics (chaos theory) in the study of brain function.

The theory of subfactors of von Neumann algebras made an amazing development in the past ten years or so.

This volume of proceedings consists of 14 invited papers.

This conference focused on the current research and future perspectives on the application of disordered systems theory, fractals and chaotic dynamical systems to chemical engineering problems.

This symposium brought together mechanicians, physicists and applied mathematicians to discuss the interdisciplinary topic of nonlinear wave motion, which displays effects that give rise to a multitude of unanswered questions.

This book consists of selected papers presented at the Third Conference of the Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies.

This book contains a collection of articles on the topics mentioned in the title or closely related to them, and is dedicated to Prof Aristide Halanay from the University of Bucharest, Romania, in occasion of his 70th birthday.

This volume is a collection of the papers presented at the International Conference on Fractal Concepts and the Application of Chaos in Chemical Engineering Problems.

Prediction of traffic (like weather forecast), its planning and control are counted among the great scientific and technological challenges.

Iteration theory has its roots in the operation of substituting functions into itself.

The aim of the symposium was to provide a forum for presenting and discussing recent developments and trends in Reaction-diffusion Equations and to promote scientific exchanges among mathematicians in China and in Japan, especially for the younger generation.

Nonstationarity is another name for intermittency, a phenomenon which affects many physical processes.

These proceedings contain a collection of papers on Combinatorial Dynamics, from the lectures that took place during the international symposium, Thirty Years after Sharkovskii's Theorem: New Perspectives, which was held at La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain, from June 13 to June 18, 1994.

The intellectual center of this proceedings volume is the subject of conservation laws.

This proceedings volume focusses on the applications of geometry in present day science.

Every reader will find something of interest in this book - from superdiffusion of the ocean surface to fetal heartbeats, from solar wind to the wearing-out of tools, from radioactive contamination to texture analysis, from image rendering to neural developments.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of a workshop whose main purpose was to exchange information on current topics in complex analysis, differential geometry, mathematical physics and applications, and to group aspects of new mathematics.

The book is devoted to the mathematical theory of soliton phenomena on the plane.

The purpose of the book is to provide research workers in applied mathematics, physics, and engineering with practical geometric methods for solving systems of nonlinear partial differential equations.

This series aims at reporting new developments of a high mathematical standard and of current interest.

These notes are the content of an introductory course on modern, coordinate-free differential geometry which is taken by the first-year theoretical physics PhD students, or by students attending the one-year MSc course "e;Fundamental Fields and Forces"e; at Imperial College.

The communication of knowledge on nonlinear dynamical systems, between the mathematicians working on the analytic approach and the scientists working mostly on the applications and numerical simulations has been less than ideal.

The book is devoted to a unification of two major principles of invariance in physics (local gauge and local coordinate invariance) and reducing both principles to the second one in a more than 4-dimensional world.

This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation.

This book is a collection of a series of lectures given by Prof.

The invertible point transformation is a powerful tool in the study of nonlinear differential and difference equations.

This book is adapted and revised from the author's seminal PhD thesis, in which two forms of asymptotically universal structure were presented and explained for area-preserving maps.

For uninitiated researchers, engineers, and scientists interested in a quick entry into the subject of chaos, this book offers a timely collection of 55 carefully selected papers covering almost every aspect of this subject.

This book is devoted to impulsive differential equations with a small parameter.

This book deals with the investigation of global attractors of nonlinear dynamical systems.

This is a collection of four lectures on some mathematical aspects related to the nonlinear Boltzmann equation.

This book is a collection of papers on the subject of nonlinear dynamics and its applications written by experts in this field.

This book deals with a series of topics on the cutting edge of nonlinear science, striking a balance between theory and experiment.

This book provides a concise presentation of the major techniques for determining analytic approximations to the solutions of planar oscillatory dynamic systems.