Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.
A Statistical Biography of George Udny Yule
Mills responds to the limited work on Udny Yule by embarking on the first major study of his statistical research and legacy. He explains how Yule was more than an expositor, in that he published important research, such as providing mathematical models of evolutionary behaviour.
With the growing complexity of digital systems, solving Boolean problems is a major challenge. This volume explores powerful techniques to solve them, from hardware acceleration to the synthesis of digital and reversible circuits, extending the basis for future quantum computers.
This book provides transformative AI-based solutions for the next-generation energy revolution. Leading experts tackle key challenges from grid integration to decarbonization, detailing innovations for solar, wind, and green hydrogen to shape a sustainable energy future.
A practical guide to numerical methods in structural engineering for students and professionals. Drawing on 30+ years of experience, this book bridges theory and practice, showing how to design safe, economical structures with worked examples in both SI and US customary units.
Step into the world where art and artificial intelligence converge. This book explores AI’s profound impact, delving into its role as both a tool and collaborator. It challenges our understanding of creativity, authorship, and the nature of art itself.
Founded by Dr Cho Han Kyu, Natural Farming is a nature-respecting alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture that assures high yield and good quality for lower costs. Now used in over 15 countries, it provides tools to improve livelihoods and conserve the environment.
This book is the first complete overview of data compression methods in analytical spectroscopy and imaging. Its rigorous mathematical basis, detailed examples, and reproducible computer calculations make it a valuable guide for theorists, practitioners, and students.
This book assesses the risks of debris flows in Georgia, calculating the damage they cause. It presents innovative, patented structures to regulate them, designed using theoretical, laboratory, and field studies to ensure reliability. For scientists, engineers, and students.
This guide presents practical guidelines on how to find your creative role in the journey to sustainability. It offers innovative ideas for solving pressing global challenges and invites you to examine your values to achieve personal victories on the path to a better world.
Entropy, Seismology and the View of Cosmology
To understand the universe, we must look not to space, but to what is hidden under our feet. Regularities in Earth’s seismicity, revealed by new seismic parameters, lead to a theory of entropy seismology with applications in earthquake prediction and even modern physics.
The teaching of architecture and urbanism is in crisis, unable to respond to current problems like the human right to housing. This book of essays by international experts presents historical analyses, manifestos, and new objectives to address the challenge.
Learn to diagnose the Florida landscape. A physician and Master Naturalist shows how to identify past events that have influenced today’s environments. With photos, maps, and case studies, you’ll understand the health of Florida’s ecosystems like never before.
This book covers degenerate and singular elliptic equations, which appear in applications from glaciology to fluid mechanics. Based on the author’s research, it is a useful reference for graduate students and researchers interested in differential equations.
Celebrating Paolo Grigolini’s 50-year legacy in non-equilibrium statistical physics. This collection explores his pioneering work on the quantum-classical connection, anomalous diffusion, and new methods for detecting scaling in time series.
Emerging Trends in Green Chemical Technologies
Explore innovations in green chemistry and technology, from biomass utilization and AI to energy storage and waste recycling. Written by experts, this book offers practical solutions to the challenges of building a sustainable chemical industry.
Climate Dynamics over the Indian Subcontinent
This book explores the Indian subcontinent’s climate dynamics and its role in global climate. Using geological archives to reconstruct paleoclimate, it offers vital context for evaluating today’s warming and provides practical data for climate science and geology researchers.
This book covers special and general relativity, tensor calculus, Einstein’s field equations, and cosmological models. It also provides a lucid introduction to alternative theories of gravitation. Including examples and exercises, it is an asset for every student and researcher.
Ion Channels in Biomembranes and Their Mimics
This volume provides a unified treatment of the structure and function of ion channels, clarifying how electrophysiological and electrochemical tools are essential to understanding ion transport. It bridges the gap between biology and electrochemistry for all life scientists.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.