Mathematics : Applied

Dynamical Systems and Control documents the major presentations of the 11th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control, providing a foundation for further research. Contributed papers shed light on physical, biological and economic phenomena through lines of reasoning that originate from this discipline. This book covers fundamental advances in dynamics, dynamical systems, and control, examines new and innovative techniques and their applications, and relates dynamics and control to social, economic, and biological issues. Applications explored include the control of cars and robots, to the dynamics of ships and suspension bridges, and the determination of optimal spacecraft trajectories. more...

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The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on "Nanoscale Material Interfaces: Experiment, Theory and Simulation'' from November 2004 to January 2005. As part of the program, tutorials for graduate students and junior researchers were given by leading experts in the field. This invaluable volume collects the expanded lecture notes of four of those self-contained tutorials. The topics covered include dynamics in different models of domain coarsening and coagulation and their mathematical analysis in material sciences; a mathematical and computational study for quantized vortices in the celebrated Ginzburg–Landau models of superconductivity and the mean field Gross–Pitaevskii equations of superfluidity; the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and applications in Bose–Einstein condensation and plasma physics as well as their efficient and accurate computation; and finally, an introduction to constitutive modeling of macromolecular fluids within the framework of the kinetic theory. This volume serves to inspire graduate students and researchers who will embark upon original research work in these fields. more...

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This textbook describes the fundamental “physical” aspects of fluid flows for beginners of fluid mechanics in physics, mathematics and engineering, from the point of view of modern physics. It also emphasizes the dynamical aspects of fluid motions rather than the static aspects, illustrating vortex motions, waves, geophysical flows, chaos and turbulence. Beginning with the fundamental concepts of the nature of flows and the properties of fluids, the book presents fundamental conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy, and the equations of motion for both inviscid and viscous fluids. In addition to the fundamentals, this book also covers water waves and sound waves, vortex motions, geophysical flows, nonlinear instability, chaos, and turbulence. Furthermore, it includes the chapters on superfluids and the gauge theory of fluid flows. The material in the book emerged from the lecture notes for an intensive course on Elementary Fluid Mechanics for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of theoretical physics given in 2003 and 2004 at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics (Tianjin) in China. Hence, each chapter may be presented separately as a single lecture. more...

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Random walks have proven to be a useful model in understanding processes across a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. This self-contained text will appeal to graduate students who need to understand the applications of random walk techniques, as well as to established researchers. more...

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Proceedings of the world renowned ERCOFTAC (International Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements). The proceedings include papers dealing with the following areas of turbulence:. · Eddy-viscosity and second-order RANS models. · Direct and large-eddy simulations and deductions for conventional modelling. · Measurement and visualization techniques, experimental studies. · Turbulence control. · Transition and effects of curvature, rotation and buoyancy on turbulence. · Aero-acoustics. · Heat and mass transfer and chemically reacting flows. · Compressible flows, shock phenomena. · Two-phase flows. · Applications in aerospace engineering, turbomachinery and reciprocating engines, industrial aerodynamics and wind engineering, and selected chemical engineering problems. Turbulence remains one of the key issues in tackling engineering flow problems. These problems are solved more and more by CFD analysis, the reliability of which depends strongly on the performance of the turbulence models employed. Successful simulation of turbulence requires the understanding of the complex physical phenomena involved and suitable models for describing the turbulent momentum, heat and mass transfer. For the understanding of turbulence phenomena, experiments are indispensable, but they are equally important for providing data for the development and testing of turbulence models and hence for CFD software validation. As in other fields of Science, in the rapidly developing discipline of turbulence, swift progress can be achieved only by keeping up to date with recent advances all over the world and by exchanging ideas with colleagues active in related fields. more...

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