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A Finite Element Primer for Beginners
The Basics
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
The purpose of this primer is to provide the basics of the Finite Element Method, primarily illustrated through a classical model problem, linearized elasticity. The topics covered are:
• Weighted residual methods and Galerkin approximations,
• A model problem for...
by Chadwick Dearing Oliver, Fatma Arf Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In the past few decades, sustainability of natural resources and the social and environmental issues that surround them have become increasingly topical. This multidisciplinary book discusses the complex relationships between society, natural resources and the environment. Major resources including...
Biodiversity and Environmental Change
Monitoring, Challenges and Direction
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network...
Global Environment
Water, Air, and Geochemical Cycles - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
This newly revised edition of Global Environment discusses the major elements of the geochemical cycles and global fluxes found in the atmosphere, land, lakes, rivers, biota, and oceans, as well as the human effects on these fluxes. Retaining the strengths of the original edition while incorporating...
by Charles Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Since Luna and Lunar Orbiter photographed the far side of the Moon, the mysterious dichotomy between the face of the Moon as we see it from Earth and the side of the Moon that is hidden has puzzled lunar scientists. As we learned more from the Apollo sample return missions and later robotic satellites,...
Carbon Utilization
Applications for the Energy Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book provides in-depth information on topics relating to anthropogenic carbon dioxide utilization processes. Presenting a collection of state-of-the-art scientific reviews and research perspectives on carbon management strategies of relevance to the energy industry, it features contributions...
Hydrology
Principles and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
The book comprises nine chapters, with seven core chapters dealing in detail with the basic principles and processes of the main hydrological components of the water cycle: precipitation, interception, evaporation, soil water, groundwater, streamflow and water quality. It takes a broadly non-mathematical...
by Edita Baltrėnaitė, Pranas Baltrėnas, Arvydas Lietuvninkas
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
This monograph describes ways of using trees and their byproducts in environmental protection technologies and methodologies throughout their lifecycles. The tree, the planet’s main source of biomass, is an indispensable tool for sustainable technologies, and the authors present a holistic picture...
Alien Seas
Oceans in Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Oceans were long thought to exist in all corners of the Solar System, from carbonated seas percolating beneath the clouds of Venus to features on the Moon's surface given names such as "the Bay of Rainbows” and the "Ocean of Storms." With the advent of modern telescopes and spacecraft...
The Penguin Book of Outer Space Exploration
NASA and the Incredible Story of Human Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of historical documents--publishing in celebration of NASA's 60th anniversary and with a foreword by Bill Nye
"An extremely useful and thought provoking documentary journey through the maze of...
History of the Space Shuttle, Volume Two
Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Basing his work on virtually untapped NASA archives, T. A. Heppenheimer has produced the second volume of his definitive history of the space shuttle. Volume Two traces the development of the shuttle through a decade of engineering setbacks and breakthroughs, program-management challenges, and political...
Linear Isentropic Oscillations of Stars
Theoretical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
This book surveys the theory of free, linear, isentropic oscillations in spherically symmetric, gaseous equilibrium stars, from basic concepts to asymptotic representations of normal modes and with slow period changes in rapidly evolving pulsating stars.
Energy Efficiency
Real Time Energy Infrastructure Investment and Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
ENERGY EFFICIENCY uses an applied scientific methodology and case studies to demonstrate and support: The need for the U.S. and the world to commit to energy and resource efficiency as the central goal in investing in electric, heat, and cooling infrastructure, the huge economic opportunity for using...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Wastewater and Biosolids Management covers a wide range of current, new and emerging topics in wastewater and biosolids. The book addresses the theoretical and practical aspect of the reuse and looks to advance our knowledge on wastewater reuse and its application in agricultural production. The book...