Maths for engineers

It is the task of the engineer, as of any other professional person, to do everything that is reasonably possible to analyse the difficulties with which his or her client is confronted, and on this basis to design solutions and implement these in practice.

Biotechnology has been labelled as one of the key technologies of the last two decades of the 20th Century, offering boundless solutions to problems ranging from food and agricultural production to pharmaceutical and medical applications, as well as environmental and bioremediation problems.

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One of the most notable features of nanometer scale CMOS technology is the increasing magnitude of variability of the key device parameters affecting performance of integrated circuits.

This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies and Physical Science was held in Hong Kong, 13-15 March, 2013.

This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory.

These proceedings from the 2012 symposium on "e;Chaos, complexity and leadership"e; reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management.

These papers on Intelligent Data Analysis and Management (IDAM) examine issues related to the research and applications of Artificial Intelligence techniques in data analysis and management across a variety of disciplines.

IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies contains forty-nine revised and extended research articles, written by prominent researchers participating in the conference.

The mathematical description of the properties of a shell is much more elaborate than those of beam and plate structures.

This book focuses on the nonlinear behaviour of thin-wall shells (single- and multilayered with delamination areas) under various uniform and non-uniform loadings.

Crime, terrorism and security are in the forefront of current societal concerns.

Modeling Students' Mathematical Modeling Competencies offers welcome clarity and focus to the international research and professional community in mathematics, science, and engineering education, as well as those involved in the sciences of teaching and learning these subjects.

The 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics was hosted by the Australasian mechanics community in the city of Adelaide during the last week of August 2008.

The book opens with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids.

This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in the conference.

With so many terms available to define the same thing, it would seem nearly irresponsible to introduce yet another term (complex situation) to describe a phenomenological state of such as a system.

The main objective of the Water Framework Directive in the European countries is to achieve a "e;good status"e; of all the water bodies, in the integrated management of river basins.

This book contains a collection of papers that were presented at the IUTAM Symposiumon "e;Computer Models in Biomechanics: From Nano to Macro"e; held at Stanford University, California, USA, from August 29 to September 2, 2011.

This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems.

Decision makers in large scale interconnected network systems require simulation models for decision support.

This volume contains thirty revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers participating in an international conference in engineering technologies and physical science and applications.

In this book Egyptian Archeology and Mathematics meet.

Deformable solids have a particularly complex character; mathematical modeling is not always simple and often leads to inextricable difficulties of computation.

Addressing students and researchers as well as Computational Fluid Dynamics practitioners, this book is the most comprehensive review of high-resolution schemes based on the principle of Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT).

Architectural stress is the inability of a system design to respond to new market demands.

Origin(s) of Design in Nature is a collection of over 40 articles from prominent researchers in the life, physical, and social sciences, medicine, and the philosophy of science that all address the philosophical and scientific question of how design emerged in the natural world.

Digital geometry emerged as an independent discipline in the second half of the last century.

Data-Based Controller Design presents a comprehensive analysis of data-based control design.

Vibration and structural acoustics analysis has become an essential requirement for high-quality structural and mechanical design in order to assure acoustic comfort and the integrity, reliability and fail-safe behavior of structures and machines.

During the last decade significant progress has been made in the field of ship stability.

This book is for students following an introductory course in numerical methods, numerical techniques or numerical analysis.

The underlying idea and motive for the book is that the notion of complexity may humanize the social sciences, may conceive the complex human being as more human, and turn reality as assumed in our doing social science into a more complex, that is a richer reality for all.

This is the first book of a series that will focus on MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science).

The book addresses the development of the basic knowledge of the subsurface solute transfer with a particular emphasis on field data collection and analysis coupled with modeling (analytical and numerical) tool application.

Heat and fluid flow in fluid-saturated porous media has become increas- ingly more attractive to researchers and thus it has become a very pro- ductive field for many researchers and practical engineers in very diverse range of fields.

`This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors' Introduction).

The purpose of this volume is to provide a brief review of the previous work on model reduction and identifi cation of distributed parameter systems (DPS), and develop new spatio-temporal models and their relevant identifi cation approaches.

This book gives a practical overview of Fractional Calculus as it relates to Signal Processing

In times of general instability change management is a great challenge.

The author developed this text over many years, teaching graduate courses in advanced dynamics and flexible multibody dynamics at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Symposium was aimed at the theoretical and numerical problems involved in modelling the dynamic response of structures which have uncertain properties due to variability in the manufacturing and assembly process, with automotive and aerospace structures forming prime examples.

This book contains extended versions of papers presented at the international Conference VIPIMAGE 2009 - ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image, that was held at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal, from 14th to 16th of October 2009.

Simulation based on mathematical models plays a major role in computer aided design of integrated circuits (ICs).

In this book an introduction is given to aspects of water waves that play a role in ship hydrodynamics and offshore engineering.

This monograph addresses fundamental aspects of mathematical modeling and numerical solution methods of electromagnetic problems involving low frequencies, i.

This book gathers selected research articles presented in the "e;6th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC)"e;, held at JECRC University, Jaipur, during August 3-5, 2023.

This book provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the theory of random fields and its applications.

This book discusses enterprise hierarchies, which view a target system with varying degrees of abstraction.