Since the publication of "Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics" 1988, spectral methods have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering computation. The authors of that book have incorporated into this new edition the many improvements in the algorithms and the theory of spectral methods that have been made since then. This latest book retains the tight integration between the theoretical and practical aspects of spectral methods, and the chapters are enhanced with material on the Galerkin with numerical integration version of spectral methods. The...
Since the publication of "Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics" 1988, spectral methods have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scient...
Our purpose in writing this book was to provide a compendium of stochastic optimizationtechniques, someguidesto wheneachisappropriateinpractical situations, and a few useful ways of thinking about optimization as a p- cess of search in some very rich con?guration spaces. Each of us has come to optimization, traditionally a subject studied in applied mathematics, from a background in physics, especially the statistical physics of random m- tures or materials. One of us (SK) has used ideas developed in the study of magnetic alloys to explore the optimal placement of computer circuits s- ject to...
Our purpose in writing this book was to provide a compendium of stochastic optimizationtechniques, someguidesto wheneachisappropriateinpractical situa...
This complementary text provides detailed solutions for the problems that appear in Chapters 2 to 18 of Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics (CTFD), Second Edition. Consequently there is no Chapter 1 in this solutions manual. The solutions are indicated in enough detail for the serious reader to have little difficulty in completing any intermediate steps. Many of the problems require the reader to write a computer program to obtain the solution. Tabulated data, from computer output, are included where appropriate and coding enhancements to the programs provided in CTFD are indicated in...
This complementary text provides detailed solutions for the problems that appear in Chapters 2 to 18 of Computational Techniques for Fluid Dynamics (C...
This text describes computer programs for simulating phenomena in hydro- dynamics, gas dynamics, and elastic plastic flow in one, two, and three dimen- sions. Included in the two-dimensional program are Maxwell's equations and thermal and radiation diffusion. The programs were developed by the author during the years 1952-1985 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The largest main-frame computers available in the early 1950s were re- quired to solve hydrodynamic problems in one space dimension by using forty mass points. Subsequently, numerical methods were developed for solv- ing...
This text describes computer programs for simulating phenomena in hydro- dynamics, gas dynamics, and elastic plastic flow in one, two, and three dimen...
Stochastic differential equations have many applications in the natural sciences. Besides, the employment of probabilistic representations together with the Monte Carlo technique allows us to reduce solution of multi-dimensional problems for partial differential equations to integration of stochastic equations. This approach leads to powerful computational mathematics that is presented in the treatise. The authors propose many new special schemes, some published here for the first time. In the second part of the book they construct numerical methods for solving complicated problems for...
Stochastic differential equations have many applications in the natural sciences. Besides, the employment of probabilistic representations together wi...
Spectral methods, particularly in their multidomain version, have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering computation. While retaining the tight integration between the theoretical and practical aspects of spectral methods that was the hallmark of their 1988 book, Canuto et al. now incorporate the many improvements in the algorithms and the theory of spectral methods that have been made since then.
This second new treatment, Evolution to Complex Geometries and Applications to Fluid Dynamics, provides an extensive overview of the essential...
Spectral methods, particularly in their multidomain version, have become firmly established as a mainstream tool for scientific and engineering com...
When Herb Keller suggested, more than two years ago, that we update our lectures held at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1977, and then have it published in the collection Springer Series in Computational Physics, we thought, at first, that it would be an easy task. Actually, we realized very quickly that it would be more complicated than what it seemed at first glance, for several reasons: 1. The first version of Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems was, in fact, part of a set of monographs on numerical mat- matics published, in a short span of time, by the Tata...
When Herb Keller suggested, more than two years ago, that we update our lectures held at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1977, and then ...
This book is aimed to be both a textbook for graduate students and a starting point for applicationsscientists. It is designedto show how to implementspectral methods to approximate the solutions of partial differential equations. It presents a syst- atic development of the fundamental algorithms needed to write spectral methods codes to solve basic problems of mathematical physics, including steady potentials, transport, and wave propagation. As such, it is meant to supplement, not replace, more general monographs on spectral methods like the recently updated Spectral Methods: Fundamentals...
This book is aimed to be both a textbook for graduate students and a starting point for applicationsscientists. It is designedto show how to implement...
Turbulent ?ows are ubiquitous in most application ?elds, ranging from - gineering to earth sciences and even life sciences. Therefore, simulation of turbulent ?ows has become a key tool in both fundamental and applied - search. The complexity of Navier Stokes turbulence, which is illustrated by the fact that the number of degrees of freedom of turbulence grows faster 11/4 thanO(Re ), where Re denotes the Reynolds number, renders the Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of turbulence inapplicable to most ?ows of - terest. To alleviate this problem, truncated solutions in both frequency and...
Turbulent ?ows are ubiquitous in most application ?elds, ranging from - gineering to earth sciences and even life sciences. Therefore, simulation of t...
Dieses Handbuch besteht aus insgesamt sieben Einzelbanden, die folgende Themen behandeln: Geofernerkundung, Geophysik, Stromungs- und Transportmodellierung, Geophysik, Geotechnik Hydrogeologie, Tonmineralogie und Bodenphysik, Geochemie sowie Handlungsempfehlungen. Als Grundlage diente den 37 beteiligten Forschungseinrichtungen und Firmen die Analyse von 28 Einzelvorhaben. Dabei wurden an ausgewahlten Teststandorten neue und bereits erprobte Verfahren gegenubergestellt, um so eine Auswahl der effektivsten und kostengunstigsten Methodenkombinationen zu erhalten. Von der Bundesanstalt fur...
Dieses Handbuch besteht aus insgesamt sieben Einzelbanden, die folgende Themen behandeln: Geofernerkundung, Geophysik, Stromungs- und Transportmodelli...