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.
Modelling Offshore Wind Farm Operation and Maintenance
Offshore wind energy is a vital green resource, but its main challenge is the high cost of operation and maintenance. This book explores how to reduce failure rates and make offshore wind energy cheaper, using condition monitoring systems and real-world case studies.
Modern Educational Methods and Strategies in Teaching Mathematics
Uncover the building blocks of primary math success and the motivational factors that drive students. This guide connects the development of student identity in secondary school to the critical role mathematical aptitude plays in a society’s economic prosperity.
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.
Pyrometers are calibrated for blackbodies (BB), but real objects radiate differently, causing measurement errors. This book proposes original correction methods that account for an object’s radiation spectrum and its temperature dependence to increase the accuracy of pyrometry.
With fossil fuels depleting, reliable and eco-friendly energy is essential. This book discusses renewable resources like wind and solar power, comparing them to non-renewable sources with data from case studies and exploring their advantages over conventional energy.
This book provides theory on artificial intelligence techniques and insight on application development. It is for academicians, practitioners, and students seeking a deep understanding of the latest paradigms in AI to develop intelligent systems for the benefit of humanity.
In multiplicative calculus, division and multiplication replace the roles of subtraction and addition. This book is devoted to multiplicative Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, summarizing the most recent contributions for mathematicians, physicists, engineers and biologists.
Multivariate Techniques
This book covers both theoretical and applied aspects of multivariate analyses. It provides an overview of key terminology and distributions before discussing methods of drawing inferences, multivariate analysis of variance, and multivariate regression.
The muon is vital to particle, nuclear, and atomic physics, and a key component of the Standard Model. Muonic processes provide crucial information on the weak interaction. This book explores the various aspects of muon physics, highlighting the most recent experiments conducted.
Nanomaterials
Explore the transformative power of nanomaterials in energy storage, medicine, and environmental remediation. This book presents nanotechnology as a key driver of sustainable development, offering vital insights for researchers, professionals, and students.
This book discusses advances in titanium dioxide nanocomposites. These materials have photocatalytic, virucidal, and antimicrobial efficacy for cleaning water and air, and can split water to generate chemical fuels, aiding in green and sustainable development.
Nanostructured Nonlinear Optical Materials
This book focuses on novel applications of nanostructured nonlinear optical materials, including optical limiting, Q-switching, mode-locking, and laser-nanoplasma physics. It is useful for physicists, material scientists, and engineers interested in laser technology.
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 delves into optimizing natural fibre composites as sustainable alternatives to synthetics. It focuses on strengthening the bond between fibres and polymers through surface modification, enhancing structural strength and efficiency for various industrial needs.
This timely book explores innovative, sustainable approaches to mitigate pollution. It delves into nature’s potential to address environmental issues, showing how natural solutions can transform waste management, restore ecosystems, and reclaim valuable resources.
Navigating the Future
This book explores artificial intelligence’s dual role as a solution and a risk for humanity’s most pressing challenges. It discusses the ethical governance needed to guide AI’s transformative potential towards a sustainable, equitable, and peaceful future.
This book focuses on the co-estimation strategies of State-of-Charge (SOC) and State-of-Health (SOH) for lithium-ion batteries. It proposes a collaborative optimization strategy based on neural networks, providing technical references for scholars and engineers.
Neural Nexus
This book takes you on a captivating journey through the evolving landscape of AI. It delves into the workings of neural systems, both artificial and biological, to explore their profound implications—from groundbreaking innovations to the ethical dilemmas shaping our future.