With many concrete examples and questions, this book provides an engaging, accessible account of core theoretical results of evolution equations in a way that gradually builds intuition and culminates in exploring active research. Developing all necessary prerequisite material, from real analysis to functional analysis, it gives nonspecialists the foundation to understand what evolution equations are and how to work with them in various areas of practice. The book covers 35 different models spanning chemical kinetics, pharmacokinetics, neural networks, chemotaxis, mathematical physics, beam dynamics, aeroelasticity, infectious disease epidemiology, combustion, and environmental issues.
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Differential Equations
Mathematical Analysis
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
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Unlocking the secrets that govern the physics of lubricated and dry contacts, this book helps tribologists on their quest to reduce friction, minimize wear, and extend the operating life of mechanical equipment. It presents a fresh approach to tribology that links advances in applied mathematics with fundamental problems in tribology related to contact elasticity, fracture mechanics, and fluid film lubrication. The book also provides a real-world industrial perspective so that readers can attain a practical understanding of the material. The authors incorporate the classical tenets of tribology while providing new mathematical solutions that address various shortcomings in existing theories.
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Tribology
Materials Science
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
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An essential revision of the original published nearly 20 years ago, this new edition, created with the urging of International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE), is the only complete reference on the critical topic of quenching, which is fundamental to the production of defect and distortion-free products. Leading international experts have contributed the most authoritative, exhaustive, and recent findings on quenching to this second edition. Topics include thermo-and fluid dynamic principles of heat transfer during cooling, wetting kinematics, and residual stresses after cooling, as well as computer modeling and prediction of microstructure transformation, hardness distribution, stress-strain, and distortion. Ideal for specialists in heat treatment practice, this book is also useful for higher education and numerous specialized courses and seminars worldwide.
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Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors, this book examines the function and structure of coastal lagoonal ecosystems and the natural and anthropogenic drivers of change that affect them. The volume represents a wide array of studies on natural and anthropogenic drivers of change in coastal lagoons located in different regions of the world. Although a significant number of journal articles on the subject can be found in the literature, this book provides a single-source reference for coastal lagoons within the arena of the global environment.
• Marine Science
Marine & Aquatic Science
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Biodiversity
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Based on recent research and the latest developments, this book presents techniques and applications of ultra-short pulse lasers. It describes principal methods for mode-locking of lightwave and provides the operations of the laser source in both linear and nonlinear regimes. The book discusses the fundamental aspects for understanding the phenomena of lightwave pulse sequence whose width is extremely short. It also covers applications of such laser source in high speed communication systems and networks are described so that readers can be familiar with technological development for next generations of the optical Internet.
• Optics and Photonics
Telecommunications
Optics & optoelectronics
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With coverage ranging from the complex characteristics and behaviors of enterprises to the challenges they pose for engineering and technology, this book examines the impacts of enterprise processes and leading-edge technologies on the evolution of an enterprise. It discusses new and emerging modes of thought that are increasingly being recognized as essential to successful systems engineering, defining and examining key building blocks of this evolving field. It addresses the issues of the changing nature of SE, lays out a recommended direction for the future, and provides a unified basis for moving toward a mature discipline with the expanded scope.
• Complex and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Systems & Control Engineering
Engineering Management
Manufacturing Engineering
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Written by a recognized expert in emergency management, this volume is a thorough study of the planning process and response procedures for catastrophic disasters. Topics addressed include an introduction to catastrophe planning and response; ethical, political, and legal issues; logistics; critical infrastructure; public health and mass evacuation planning strategies and skills; and planning for response, recovery, and reconstruction. Recent real-world case studies are used to demonstrate the characteristics of a catastrophic disaster, the special issues of response and recovery, and preparation on international, national, and local levels.
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Security Services
Critical Security
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Using examples from mathematics, mechanical and electrical engineering, and control and signal processing, this book provides an introduction to MATLAB ® and Simulink and examines the advantages and limitations of both. The author demonstrates how to visualize the results of calculations in various kinds of graphical representations, how to write useful script files and functions for solving specific problems, how to avoid disastrous, computational errors, and how to insert calculations and graphs into technical reports produced by either MS Word or LaTeX. Companion software with functions and script files is available online.
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Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Mechanical Engineering
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Business managers have long known the power of the Balanced Scorecard in executing corporate strategy. This volume shows project managers how they too can use this framework to meet strategic objectives. It supplies valuable insight into the project management process as a whole as well as detailed explanations on how to implement the balanced scorecard to measure and manage performance and projects. It investigates numerous sample scorecards, metrics, and techniques and includes a plethora of resources in its appendices and on the accompanying CD, including instructions for developing a measurement program, a full metrics guide, a sample project plan, and a set of project management fill-in forms.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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By adopting green chemistry principles and methodologies, researchers can devise new processes to help protect the environment from further damage. In this book, eminent international experts in green chemistry, green engineering, and environmental sustainability discuss the fundamentals of green chemistry and address current issues of social concern. The text covers sustainable development through green engineering, sustainable economics, environmentally benign technologies for greener processes, computational methods and modeling, environmental ethics, and green approaches to minimize air, water, soil, marine, noise, thermal and nuclear pollution.
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Environmental Engineering
Ecology - Environment Studies
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