This book is an introduction to computational methods in physics. It details how to make a physical problem computable, using numerous examples and solved problems from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, and directly teaches the reader how to implement these techniques.
This book covers the modeling and control of fluid movement and heat transfer for new technologies. It details the discovery of three new hydrodynamic phenomena and explores the influence of vibrations and electromagnetic fields on liquids to create unique devices and materials.
Energy Losses in Big Woodworking Machines
Big woodworking machines suffer from their size. Static and dynamic loads cause deformations and vibrations, increasing energy consumption. This monograph investigates these issues, proposing optimization solutions to minimize energy losses and prevent machine damage.
Entransy
This book introduces entransy theory, an alternative perspective on thermal phenomena. It covers the concept’s principles, its application in process optimization, and the controversies surrounding it. This is an essential introduction for students, engineers, and researchers.
Human Calcification Mechanisms
This book explores calcium regulation—from essential bone mineralization to harmful soft tissue calcification. It unites foundational science with AI, advanced imaging, and robotic interventions, offering cutting-edge insights into calcification disorders and their management.
Energy rules the world, shaping policies and sparking conflicts in the race for domination. This book examines the subject from a multidimensional view, covering key energy zones like Russia and the Middle East, as well as the policies pursued by leading nations.
This book presents mathematical models of thermal stresses, strengthening, and crack formation in two-component materials like composites and dual-phase steel. Suitable for research, engineering, university courses, and non-specialists, with a helpful mathematical appendix.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of shape control, vibration analysis, and buckling in piezolaminated composite plates. Using shear deformation theory in finite element methods, it delivers accurate calculations of deformation, frequencies, and buckling modes.
This volume offers key insights into sound scattering, covering scatterers, waveguides, hydroacoustic antennas, and loudspeakers. It details numerical solutions to complex problems using the boundary element method.
This textbook on hydroacoustics covers the reflectivity of elastic bodies and the synthesis of hydroacoustic antennas. Along with classical diffraction theory, it uses numerical methods like the finite element method and the boundary element method.
This book compares dynamic mathematical models to solve problems of impact and shock. Its methodologies help determine the life-resource of large constructions, simulate dynamic contact processes, and design new composite materials. For scientists, students, and engineers.
Current theories fail to adequately account for energy dissipation in modern materials. Based on a new theory, this book solves problems of minimizing energy dissipation, reducing vibrations in machines, and preventing resonances, with applications in geophysics and beyond.
Turbulent fluid flows appear random, but averages like pressure and flow rate are predictable. Past mathematical models have been either too simple or too complex for practical use. This book explores a middle ground: computationally tractable yet realistic models.
This book solves scattering problems for elastic waves in solids using analytical approaches. It provides benchmark solutions for numerical methods and introduces applications in ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and geophysics.
Advance Peridynamics to model thin, shell-like structures. This book unveils extensions for solving shear-locking and introduces enhanced methods for accurately analyzing damage in fibre-reinforced composites.
This book presents one hundred solved problems in Classical Mechanics to support students of Physics and Engineering. Detailed solutions feature practical applications, numerical examples, and result analysis. Key topics include Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian Mechanics.
Turbulent Two-Phase Jets of Mutually Immiscible Liquids
This work develops mathematical models to simulate mixing and heat transfer in turbulent multiphase jets. It presents a new method to calculate important characteristics impossible with other techniques and reveals the phenomenon of kinetic energy amplification.
For aquatic scientists and students with little fluid dynamics exposure, this is a self-contained introduction to flows at small scales. It explains the effects of flow on processes like nutrient uptake, particle coagulation, and suspension feeding.