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This application-driven primer for students and non-specialists has been course-tested at graduate level and explains how to use the spectral method to tackle the issues encountered in modeling fluid flow in closed geometries with heat or mass transfer.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the time-domain finite element methods for Maxwell's equations involving metamaterials, focusing on practical implementation of edge finite element methods for metamaterial Maxwell's equations.

Essential reading for engineers and researchers following developments in this new range of steels, the book explores their properties and applications to the scale of electronic components, and thus has special appeal to physicists and materials scientists.

This book offers an introduction to viscoelasticity; in particular, to the theories of dilute polymer solutions and dilute suspensions of rigid particles in viscous and incompressible fluids. Includes a new chapter on Dissipative Particle Dynamics (DPD).

The magnetic properties of silicates and phosphates are compiled in subvolume 27I. While subvolumes 27I1, 27I2, 27I3, 27I4, and 27I5 (already published) deal with orthosilicates, sorosilicates, cyclosilicates, inosilicates, and phyllosilicates, respectively, the present subvolume 27I6 deals with tectosilicates.

Embedding the theoretical discussion on the framework of evolutionary regional innovation systems (RIS), this book reveals the informal nature of the emerging RIS in China, within which interactive learning is organized on the basis of social networks.

It is published twice a year and presents ongoing result from the "China Quarterly Macroeconomic Model (CQMM)," a research project at the Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR) at Xiamen University.

Besides presenting recent research outcomes in probabilistic concurrency theory, the book exemplifies the use of many mathematical techniques to solve problems in computer science, which is intended to be accessible to postgraduate students in Computer Science and Mathematics.

This book offers models and numerical solution strategies for analyzing the coupled response of materials with tailored dielectric properties by direct simulation using standard laptop/desktop equipment. Covers coupled systems, homogenization theory and more.

This book examines the diagnostic approach to bipolar illness, with special reference to the borderline zones with unipolar depression and schizoaffective disorder. It details treatment options, long-term pharmacotherapy, and psychosocial therapies.

Neal Koblitz is a co-inventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, and his autobiographical memoirs are collected in this volume. These engaging stories fully capture the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.

This book introduces algorithms for fast, accurate pricing of derivative contracts. These are developed in classical Black-Scholes markets, and extended to models based on multiscale stochastic volatility, to Levy, additive and classes of Feller processes.

This book presents mathematical techniques for modeling complex cases such as scarcity of data points, or unrepeatable experiments, and applies these to nuclear deterrence, political stability and even issues involving deaf and hard of hearing children.

This interdisciplinary study surveys the evolution of our changing conceptions of time, organizing coverage around the central themes of cosmology and regularity, stasis and flux, symmetry and asymmetry. Defends a dynamic, rather than a static view of time.

This book describes effective and efficient structure-preserving algorithms for second-order oscillatory differential equations by using theoretical analysis and numerical validation. Includes advances in ARKN, ERKN, Falkner-type and energy-preserving methods.

This book reviews construction safety measures in different regions of the world, and provides detailed evidence of the need for construction safety measures. Gathers and presents worldwide construction accident statistics, and costs of construction accidents.

Dynamic Provisioning for Community Services outlines a dynamic provisioning and maintenance mechanism in a running distributed system, e.g.

Presents the findings on behaviours of steel structural components in a fire, such as the catenary actions of restrained steel beams, the design methods for restrained steel columns, and the membrane actions of concrete floor slabs with steel decks. The book is of interest to architects, code officials, building designers and fire fighters.

The author worked out that a company, which achieves to align its sound strategy cascading with the company context and leadership style of its top-management team, is likely to realize more operations improvements than do companies that missed to do so.

Beginning with the Pi Theorem, the theoretical basis of dimensional analysis, this book offers many examples of dimensional analysis in various branches of mechanics. Includes findings of the author's research group on explosion mechanics and impact dynamics.

This book explores structural and electronic properties of strained epitaxial layers and the thermodynamics and kinetics of layer growth, and describes such growth techniques as metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy, molecular beam epitaxy and liquid phase epitaxy.

Cytologic examination of the cerebrospinal fluid is a technically simple, yet productive, diagnostic procedure. High-quality slides depict the common cerebrospinal fluid cell types, cell anomalies in inflammatory conditions and neoplastic and non-neoplastic disorders, and cases with contaminants.

Describing principles from a variety of disciplines, this volume provides an overview of electrical machines and drives. Special attention is given to the necessary formulae to calculate machines and drives, as well as simplifications.

This review of classical field theory describes Maxwell's equations in their integral, directly testable form, and moves on to their local formulation. Includes detailed figures, worked examples, problems and solutions, highlighted special topics and more.

This award-winning best-seller addresses the fundamentals of computer science. The authors discuss the design of algorithms, their efficiency and correctness, quantum algorithms, concurrency, large systems and artificial intelligence.

The goal of this original and relevant book is to provide a complete overview, exposition, and evaluation of the interplay among bank behavior, market structure, and regulation. It also considers implications for a variety of public policy issues.

This book presents an accurate, efficient pipeline for single camera-based 3D mapping of terrestrial and underwater environments. The authors offer a novel Structure from Motion algorithm that boosts accuracy by registering camera views directly with the maps.

It provides fuzzy programming approach to solve real-life decision problems in fuzzy environment. Within the framework of credibility theory, it provides a self-contained, comprehensive and up-to-date presentation of fuzzy programming models, algorithms and applications in portfolio analysis.

This book describes a multidisciplinary, multiscale approach to the analysis of tight gas reservoirs, showing the need to move beyond standard seismic interpretation work flows to better understand the temporal and spatial evolution of such complex reservoirs.