Theory of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9781138748132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 1000 str.

K. T. Chau

Opis

This volume comprehensively covers the essential differential equations students are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems, with its advanced companion text on applications. This covers a very broad range of theories related to solving differential equations, mathematical preliminaries, plus more advanced topics.

Spis treści

Mathematical Preliminaries. Introduction to Differential Equations. Ordinary Differential Equations. Series Solutions of 2nd Order ODE. System of First Order Differential Equations. First Order Partial Differential Equations. Higher Order Partial Differential Equations. Green’s Function. Wave, Diffusion and Potential Equations. Eigenfunction Expansions. Integral and Integro-Differential Equations. Asymptotic Expansion and Perturbation. Calculus of Variations. Variational Principles. Finite Difference Method. Appendices.

O autorze

Professor K.T. Chau is Chair Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and former Associate Dean (Research and Development) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he was awarded the "Teaching Excellence Award in 2012/2013" by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and past President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is the Chairman of the Elasticity Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE, the Chairman of the TC103 Technical Committee of Numerical Methods on Geomechanics of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the Chairman of the Geomechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME. He is also the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Science.His book "Analytic Methods in Geomechanics" was published in 2013 by CRC Press, and it is the first book of its kind, covering, continuum mechanics, tensor analysis, 2-D elasticity, 3-D elasticity, plasticity, fracture mechanics, viscoelasticity, poroelasticity, and dynamics and waves in geomaterials. Since 2012, he has been teaching subjects called "Engineering Analysis" and "Engineering Analysis & Computation" at PolyU. They are mainly using differential equations in engineering analysis.