Maths for engineers

This book is intended for mechanicians, engineering mathematicians, and, generally for theoretically inclined mechanical engineers.

The present monograph intends to establish a solid link among three fields: fuzzy set theory, information retrieval, and cluster analysis.

A systematic treatment of current crashworthiness practice in the automotive, railroad and aircraft industries.

The book Partial Differential Equations through Examples and Exercises has evolved from the lectures and exercises that the authors have given for more than fifteen years, mostly for mathematics, computer science, physics and chemistry students.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUT AM Symposium on Mechanics of Granular and Porous Materials, held in Cambridge from 15th to 17th July 1996.

In this monograph the theory and methods of solving inverse Stefan problems for quasilinear parabolic equations in regions with free boundaries are developed.

Finslerian Laplacians have arisen from the demands of modelling the modern world.

Progress in the numerical simulation of turbulence has been rapid in the 1990s.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Nonlinear Analysis of Fracture', held in Cambridge from 3rd to 7th Septem- ber 1995.

In this volume, designed for engineers and scientists working in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), experts offer assessments of the capabilities of CFD, highlight some fundamental issues and barriers, and propose novel approaches to overcome these problems.

The decision of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics to organize a Symposium on Dynamics of Slender Vortices was greeted with great enthusiasm.

One of the main ways by which we can understand complex processes is to create computerised numerical simulation models of them.

In this monograph stochastic models of systems analysis are discussed.

The JUT AMlIACM Symposium on Discretization Methods in Structural Mechanics was nd th held in Vienna, Austria, from 2 to 6 June 1997.

Multibody dynamics started with the ideas of Jacob and Daniel Bernoul- li and later on with d'Alembert's principle.

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;.

This book is the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;The Eastern Mediterranean as a laboratory basin for the assessment of contrasting ecosystems"e; that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, March 23-27, 1998.

Rapid advances in Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) and Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulence provide opportunities for improved prediction of incompressible and compressible turbulent flows.

Geometric dynamics is a tool for developing a mathematical representation of real world phenomena, based on the notion of a field line described in two ways: -as the solution of any Cauchy problem associated to a first-order autonomous differential system; -as the solution of a certain Cauchy problem associated to a second-order conservative prolongation of the initial system.

Fifteen years ago NATO organised a conference entitled 'Ocean Acoustic Modelling'.

In this volume is presented the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on the theme of Electromagnetic Modelling and Measurements for Analysis and Synthesis Problems.

This volume contains the invited lectures presented during the NATO/ASI conducted in Pullman, Washington, July 9-18, 1989.

This volume (>Ie) NEMATICS Mathematical and Physical aspects constitutes the proceedings of a workshop which was held at l'Universite de Paris Sud (Orsay) in May 1990.

The phase transformation from liquid to solid is a phenomenon central to a wide range of manufacturing and natural processes.

Shape optimization deals with problems where the design or control variable is no longer a vector of parameters or functions but the shape of a geometric domain.

This book contains contributions by sixteen editors of a single journal specialised in real-world applications of mathematics, particularly in engineering.

During the past decade there has been a renewed interest in active sonar systems at both low and medium frequencies.

In the study of integrable systems, two different approaches in particular have attracted considerable attention during the past twenty years.

The theory of difference equations is now enjoying a period of Renaissance.

The European Turbulence Conferences have been organized under the auspices of the European Mechanics Committee (Euromech) to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of recent and new results in the field of turbulence.

Aspect '94 is the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of the present and future of the pipeline systems industry.

This book contains the edited version of the lectures presented at the NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE on "e;COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS OF RIGID AND FLEXIBLE MECHANICAL SYSTEMS"e;.

Advances in computational mechanics can only be achieved on the basis of fruitful discussion between researchers and practising engineers.

Two central problems in the pure theory of economic growth are analysed in this monograph: 1) the dynamic laws governing the economic growth processes, 2) the kinematic and geometric properties of the set of solutions to the dynamic systems.

These two volumes contain the proceedings of the Workshop on Transition, Turbulence and Combustion, sponsored by the Insti- tute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) and the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC), during June 7 to July 2, 1993.

It is a truism that turbulence is an unsolved problem, whether in scientific, engin- eering or geophysical terms.

Researchers in the natural sciences are faced with problems that require a novel approach to improve the quality of forecasts of processes that are sensitive to environmental conditions.

Under the auspices of the Euromech Committee, the Fifth European Turbulence Conference was held in Siena on 5-8 July 1994.

Probability Theory, Theory of Random Processes and Mathematical Statistics are important areas of modern mathematics and its applications.

During the last decades a considerable effort has been made on the computation of the isothermal flow of viscoelastic fluids.

The IUT AM Symposium on Microstructure Property Interactions in Composite Ma- rials was held during the dates 22nd to 25th August 1994 in Rebild Bakker Conference Centre, situated in the heart of one of Denmark's most beautiful natural areas.

A systematic treatment, based on Green's functions and integral equations, is given to the analytical and numerical methods and results for a great number of 3-D contact problems for elastic bodies.