Mechanics list 88

Hydrodynamic Fluctuations in Fluids and Fluid Mixtures

by Jose M. Ortiz de Zarate, Doctor en Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2006

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures. The book first reviews thermal fluctuations in equilibrium fluids on the basis of fluctuating hydrodynamics. It then shows how the method of fluctuating hydrodynamics can be extended to...

Metamaterials and Wave Control

by Eric Lheurette
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

Since the concept was first proposed at the end of the 20th Century, metamaterials have been the subject of much research and discussion throughout the wave community. More than 10 years later, the number of related published articles is increasing significantly. On the one hand, this success can...

How to Build a Robot Army

Tips on Defending Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies

by Daniel H. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

It goes without saying that robots kill. They hunt, swarm, and fire lasers from their eyes. They even beat humans at chess. So who better to stand with us when the real villains arrive? Movies instruct us that, whether we like it or not, we will one day be under siege by pirates, ninjas, zombies,...

Asymptotic Perturbation Theory of Waves

by Lev Ostrovsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014

This book is an introduction to the perturbation theory for linear and nonlinear waves in dispersive and dissipative media. The main focus is on the direct asymptotic method which is based on the asymptotic expansion of the solution in series of one or more small parameters and demanding finiteness...

The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua

by Wilbur Lawton
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015

It was a bitter evening in late December. Up and down the East River tugs nosed their way through the winter twilight’s gloom, shouldering aside as they snorted along big drifting cakes of ice. At her pier, a short distance below the Brooklyn Bridge, the steamer Aztec, of the Central American Trading...

Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling

Papers Contributed to the 5th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, 19-21 March 2014, College Station, A&M University, Texas, USA

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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015

This book gathers the proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, which was held on March 19-21 in College Station, Texas, USA. The different chapters, written by leading experts, reports on the most recent developments in flow physics modelling, and gives a special emphasis to...

Fluid-Structure Interactions

Slender Structures and Axial Flow

by Michael P. Paidoussis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013

The first of two books concentrating on the dynamics of slender bodies within or containing axial flow, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Volume 1 covers the fundamentals and mechanisms giving rise to flow-induced vibration, with a particular focus on the challenges associated with pipes conveying fluid. This...

Optics in Instruments

Applications in Biology and Medicine

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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Optics is a science which covers a very large domain and is experiencing indisputable growth. It has enabled the development of a considerable number of instruments, the optical component or methodology of which is often the essential part of portent systems. This book sets out show how optical physical...

Scattering by Obstacles and Potentials

by Alexander G Ramm
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017

The book is important as it contains results many of which are not available in the literature, except in the author's papers. Among other things, it gives uniqueness theorems for inverse scattering problems when the data are non-over-determined, numerical method for solving inverse scattering problems,...

The Nature of Nature

The Discovery of SuperWaves and How It Changes Everything

by Irving Dardik, Estee Dardik Lichter
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017

What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we experience as matter, space, time,...

Fiber Fracture

by M. Elices, J. Llorca
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002

The idea for this book came out of the EURESCO Conference on High Performance Fibers: Euroconference on Fiber Fracture in 2000. Many of the books that are currently available look at different aspects of fiber processing, properties, or applications, but none are focussed on the fracture behaviour...

Structure and Process in Speech Perception

Proceedings of the Symposium on Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception held at I.P.O., Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 4–6, 1975

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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

The purpose of the Symposium was to provide a meeting place for those working in the field of s·peech perception, whose main in terest is in the study of the perceptual processes in the deco ding of connected speech, hence the title Dynamic Aspects of Speech Perception. It was felt, after the...

Applied Strength of Materials SI Units Version

by Robert L. Mott, Joseph A. Untener
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

APPLIED STRENGTH OF MATERIALS 6/e, SI Units Version provides coverage of basic strength of materials for students in Engineering Technology (4-yr and 2-yr) and uses only SI units. Emphasizing applications, problem solving, design of structural members, mechanical devices and systems, the book has...

Motion Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems

by Javier Moreno-Valenzuela, Carlos Aguilar-Avelar
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017