Solar Energy: Fundamentals, Design, Modelling, and Applications offers a comprehensive but accessible treatment of solar energy, from its basic principles and applications to its economics aspects. Beginning with an overview of the sun's structure, the properties of its radiation, and the rudiments of heat transfer, the author presents in-depth discussions on the design, construction, and performance of solar thermal devices and photovoltaic systems. He explores numerous applications including air and water heating systems, crop drying, water distillation, and biogas digestion. The text is complemented by more than 300 figures, 180 solved examples, and numerous problems with hints to their solution.
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Energy
Mechanical Engineering
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Undergraduate

Foundations and Applications of Mechanics: Volume II, Fluid Mechanics shows how suitable approximations such as ideal fluid flow model, boundary layer methods, and the acoustic approximation, can help solve problems of practical importance. The author proceeds from the general to the particular, making it clear at each stage what assumptions have been made to obtain a particular approximation. In his discussion of compressible fluids, Jog steers away from using gas tables and emphasizes obtaining solutions by numerical techniques - an approach more amenable to computer solutions. He discusses the control volume and the differential equation forms of governing equations in detail and uses examples to demonstrate the advantages and shortcomings of each approach.
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Mechanics
Mechanical Engineering
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Undergraduate

Based on the authors' three decades of teaching experience, Advanced Engineering Mathematics presents the fundamentals and theoretical concepts of the subject in an intelligible and easy-to-understand style. The carefully planned chapters make this book an effective tool for teaching the application of mathematics to engineering and scientific problems. The book provides graded sets of examples and exercises that help students understand the concepts and an Answers and Hints section for difficult problems. The exercises emphasize theoretical concepts and provide the practice students need to gain the confidence to apply them. This is a logical and lucid presentation of both theory and problem solving techniques that ensures students will not get lost in unnecessary details.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
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Undergraduate

This book covers instrumentation and techniques for use of dielectric probes, inductive electromagnetic meter, multi-angle Radarsat SAR data, total information content index based on optical remote sensing and isotopes, and radiation techniques in soil moisture studies. It also discusses the characterization of physio-chemical properties of soils, charge characteristics of arid soils, electrochemical properties, soil water relations, properties of black clay soils, diagnosis and remedial measures of salt affected lands, and intensive agriculture induced changes in soil properties. Providing information on the frontiers of basic and applied sciences on the use of the emerging technologies of remote sensing, GIS and modeling of soil physical parameters, this book will be useful to all researchers working in the field of soil science.
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Soil Science
Reference
Professional

This volume brings out recent developments and current activity in different areas of operational research. The topics covered include the following major areas: mathematical programming, queuing theory, reliability and maintenance, inventory and production control, statistical methods, networks and sequencing, and information technology. Recent Developments in Operational Research will be of considerable value and interest to operational researchers, both theoreticians and practitioners, as well as a reference source for research workers.
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Operations Research
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Professional

Designed as a text for both under- and postgraduate students of mathematics and engineering, A Course in Ordinary Differential Equations deals with theory and methods of solutions as well as applications of ordinary differential equations. The treatment is lucid and gives a detailed account of Laplace transforms and their applications, Legendre and Bessel functions, and covers all the important numerical methods for differential equations.
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Differential Equations
Applied Mathematics
Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Textbook
Undergraduate

Aspects of Combinatorics and Combinatorial Number Theory discusses various Ramsey-type theorems in combinatorics and combinatorial number theory. While many of the main results are classic, the book describes recent progress and considers unsolved questions in the field. For classical theorems, the author presents proofs different than those offered in other well known treatments. The first part of this book is primarily concerned with the history, context, and rudiments of the subject. The later parts and the remarks following each section describe many recent Ramsey-type results in combinatorics with application of topological ideas.
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Combinatorics
Geometry
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Professional

Focusing on the "why's" of mathematics rather than the "how's," the unique approach of this text will appeal to a wide range of readers, from those taking a first course in calculus to those seeking deeper insights or needing a transition from calculus to analysis. The author takes care to supply strong motivations for abstract concepts, thereby helping beginners overcome the intimidation often felt when first confronting abstraction. While emphasizing the "why's," the book does not entirely neglect the "how's" and provides sufficient exposure to the techniques through numerous exercises, with answers supplied in the back of the book.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Applied Mathematics
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Professional

This volume highlights the state-of-the-art in microbial/parasite control and containment and discusses methods for avoiding development of drug resistance. The editors provide numerous strategies to combat the nightmare of microbial aggression and resistance and to overcome multiple drug resistance when emerged in microbial organisms or in cancer cells exposed to chemotherapy. Topics include malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, leprosy, diarrhoeal diseases, nosocomial diseases, plague, drug resistance, and cancer.
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Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Epidemiology
Reference
Professional

This book contains articles documenting the progress made in mapping of the genome of Vibrio cholerae and the prospects of developing highly effective and specific vaccines. It indicates the direction of such advanced research and is a valuable resource for anyone doing further research in this field. The articles discuss the public health implications of high case fatality in acute childhood diarrhea and its consequence on their nutritional status; a simple treatment algorithm for persistent diarrhea, immune response; new perspectives in toxin-induced diarrhea; and the evolution of rotavirus and the different strategies employed in the development of vaccines against them.
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Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology
Microbiology
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Professional