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Why are propeller blades of speedboats strongly eroded? Why does a syringe have to be filled slowly in order to avoid the formation of a vapour cavity near the piston? Why does a pump for watering the garden not work efficiently if it is placed too high above the ground water level? These questions, and many others taken from day to day experience, refer to situations which apparently have no connection between them, except for the fact that the motion of a liquid in part of the system plays an essential role.

Cavitation science is that part of liquid physics which addresses the motion...

Als Almandas Blick auf den jungen Mann in dem Kanu fällt, beginnt für sie eine neue Zeitrechnung. Sie folgt dem ruhigen, freundlichen Thomas in ein neues Leben, zu seiner Familie und dem Volk der Innu. Geborgen in einer Gemeinschaft, die ganz zu der ihren wird, lernt sie zu jagen, zu lieben und zu überleben.

Der Rhythmus des Waldes und die Wege des Flusses bestimmen die Schritte der Innu, doch nach und nach beanspruchen immer mehr Siedler das Land für sich. Die Sägewerke vernichten die Wälder, die Flößerei verstopft die Flüsse, und die Innu werden in eine Welt gezwungen, in...

This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic and political forms of precariousness and dispossession. Informed by trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book addresses such issues by focusing on the literary evocations of vulnerability and analyzing...

Volume 1 presents successively an introduction followed by 10 chapters and a conclusion:
- A logistic approach
- an overview of operations research
- The basics of graph theory
- calculating optimal routes
- Dynamic programming
- planning and scheduling with PERT and MPM;
- the waves of calculations in a network;
- spanning trees and touring;
- linear programming
- modeling of road traffic