Mechanics category: 1527 books
by Yan Zeng
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
This dissertation contributes to the understanding of fundamental issues in the highly interdisciplinary field of colloidal science. Beyond colloid science, the system also serves as a model for studying interactions in biological matter.
This work quantitatively investigated the scaling laws of the...
The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications
From Pendula and Josephson Junctions to Gravity and High-Energy Physics
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The sine-Gordon model is a ubiquitous model of Mathematical Physics with a wide range of applications extending from coupled torsion pendula and Josephson junction arrays to gravitational and high-energy physics models. The purpose of this book is to present a summary of recent developments in this...
Computational Fluid Dynamics 2010
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD6, St Petersburg, Russia, on July 12-16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
The International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics is held every two years and brings together physicists, mathematicians and engineers to review and share recent advances in mathematical and computational techniques for modeling fluid flow. The proceedings of the 2010 conference (ICCFD6)...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
The book contains invited lectures and selected contributions presented at the Enzo Levi and XVII Annual Meeting of the Fluid Dynamic Division of the Mexican Physical Society in 2011. It is aimed to fourth year undergraduate and graduate students, and scientists in the field of physics, engineering...
Fluid-Structure Interactions
Slender Structures and Axial Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1998
This volume emphasizes the fundamentals and mechanisms giving rise to flow-induced vibration of use to researchers, designers, and operators. FluidStructure Interactions provides useful problem-solving tools, and conveys the ideas in a physically comprehensible manner. The book includes a complete...
Satellite Technology
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
A comprehensive, single-source reference on satellite technology and its applications, Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications, Second Editionincludes the latest developments on the topic. Covering the features and facilities of satellites and satellite launch vehicles, with an emphasis...
by Yakov Perelman
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
This book contains hundreds of colorful stories from the field of physics. Despite their entertaining appearance, they address several important and serious notions in this field. This book does not seek to replace school textbooks. Its purpose is to entice the reader to consciously observe physical...
by L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Statistical Physics, Third Edition, Part 1: Course of Theoretical Physics, Volume 5 is a 15-chapter text that covers some theoretical physics-related topics, including thermodynamics, ideal gases, phase equilibrium, and chemical reactions.
This volume deals with the properties of gases, the...
Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4
Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Dynamics of Coupled Structures*, Volume 4. Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Balancing Simulation and Testing, 2015,* the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents...
by Andreas Öchsner, Zia Javanbakht
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This revision and work book offers a very specific concept for learning the finite element method applying it to problems from statics of: It skips all the classical derivations and focusses only the essential final results. Based on these `essentials', fully solved example problems are presented....
by Jennifer Jucha
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This thesis presents experimental and theoretical investigations of the connection between the time asymmetry in the short-time evolution of particle clusters and the intrinsic irreversibility of turbulent flows due to the energy cascade.
The term turbulence describes a special state of a...
by Asahel Banobre, N.M. Ravindra, Sita Rajyalaxmi Marthi
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Optical properties, particularly in the infrared range of wavelengths, continue to be of enormous interest to both material scientists and device engineers. The need for the development of standards for data of optical properties in the infrared range of wavelengths is very timely considering the...
by James Slough Zerbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This work is not intended to set forth the exploits of aviators nor to give a history of the Art. It is a book of instructions intended to point out the theories of flying, as given by the pioneers, the practical application of power to the various flying structures; how they are built, the different...
by David W. Zingg, Thomas H. Pulliam
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Intended as a textbook for courses in computational fluid dynamics at the senior undergraduate or graduate level, this book is a follow-up to the book Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics by the same authors, which was published in the series Scientific Computation in 2001. Whereas the earlier...