A unified treatment of the mechanics of mixtures of several constituents within the context of continuum mechanics, which takes into account the possibility of chemical reactions and interconversion of the constituents.

This work deals with analytic problems related to some developments and generalizations of the Boltzmann equation toward the modeling and qualitative analysis of large systems that are of interest in applied sciences. These generalizations are documented in the various surveys edited by Bellomo and Pulvirenti with reference to models of granular media, traffic flow, mathematical biology, communication networks, and coagulation models. The above literature motivates applied mathematicians to study the Cauchy problem and to develop an asymptotic analysis for models regarded as developments of...

"Firing Ceramics" has been written on the subject of the firing process to serve not only as a textbook for our ceramic schools but as a firing handbook for anyone who manufactures ceramics. This book is divided into three parts with part 1 describing what happens inside a kiln to the ceramic itself plus what furniture may be required and how to develop the firing cycle. Part 2 deals with all the different kinds of kilns that exist and how to select the right kind for your job. Lastly, part 3 is devoted to developments in firing practice, industry by industry.

Builds upon the knowledge of elasticity and thermodynamics, and allows the reader to gain confidence in extending one's skills in understanding and analyzing problems in inelasticity. This book helps the reader gain a level of comfort and competence in developing and using inelasticity models.

Consists of reviewed papers prepared on the basis of the oral and poster presentations of the participants at the AMCTM 2008 conference, reinforced by the establishment of IMEKO TC21. This work covers the general matters of metrology software, numerical methods and data fusion techniques and design and analysis of inter-laboratory comparisons.

This volume contains pedagogical and elementary introductions to genetics for mathematicians and physicists as well as to mathematical models and techniques of population dynamics. It also offers a physicist's perspective on modeling biological processes.

Each chapter starts with an overview followed by the recent results obtained by authors. Lectures are self-contained and are devoted to various phenomena such as the evolution of the genetic code and genomes, age-structured populations, demography, sympatric speciation, the Penna model, LotkaVolterra and other predator-prey models,...

This is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the mathematical problems of thermal convection. The book delineates the main ideas leading to the authors' variant of the energy method. These can be also applied to other variants of the energy method. The importance of the book lies in its focussing on the best concrete results known in the domain of fluid flows stability and in the systematic treatment of mathematical instruments used in order to reach them.

Provides the reader with basic tools to solve problems of electromagnetism in their natural functional frameworks thanks to modern mathematical methods: integral surface methods, and also semigroups, variational methods, etc. well adapted to a numerical ap

The complex processes of state changes can be interpreted by resorting to Statistical Quantum Mechanics. However, it is well known that a phenomenological description of state changes can be obtained by using the classical continuum theory. This book supplies a panoramic picture of known and new mathematical models which are suitable to describe phase changes from a mascroscopic view point. All these models are derived from the theory of continuous systems with a nonmaterial interface and describe processes of solidification, melting and vaporization. The nonlocal continuum theory of systems...

This workshop brought together experts involved in different fields of discrete nonlinear dynamics to assess the recent developments in these areas. The participants studied intensively the subjects in areas which could in principle be regarded as different points of view: cardiology, electronics, biophysics, chemistry, etc. The subjects covered focused on the common biophysical problems related to the discrete nature of the different systems considered.