The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are regarded as the main design tool to explore the new engineering challenges presented by offshore wind and tidal turbines for energy generation. The difficulty and costs of undertaking experimental tests in offshore environments have increased the interest in the field of CFD which is used to design appropriate turbines and blades, understand fluid flow physical phenomena associated with offshore environments, predict power production or...
The book encompasses novel CFD techniques to compute offshore wind and tidal applications.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are ...
This book introduces the basic concepts of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationships that are useful for quantitative assessments. Subsequently, an overview on the main wear processes is provided, and guidelines on the most suitable design solutions for each specific application are outlined. The final part of the text is devoted to a description of the main materials and surface treatments specifically developed for tribological applications and to the presentation of tribological systems of particular engineering relevance....
This book introduces the basic concepts of contact mechanics, friction, lubrication, and wear mechanisms, providing simplified analytical relationship...
This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. Moreover, the book discusses various important issues for future research and development, including design methodology, control methodology, and autonomous control strategy.
This book provides a comprehensive coverage on robot fish including design, modeling and optimization, control, autonomous control and applications. M...
Huge earthquakes and tsunamis have caused serious damage to important structures such as civil infrastructure elements, buildings and power plants around the globe. To quantitatively evaluate such damage processes and to design effective prevention and mitigation measures, the latest high-performance computational mechanics technologies, which include telascale to petascale computers, can offer powerful tools. The phenomena covered in this book include seismic wave propagation in the crust and soil, seismic response of infrastructure elements such as tunnels considering soil-structure...
Huge earthquakes and tsunamis have caused serious damage to important structures such as civil infrastructure elements, buildings and power plants ...
The book presents a series of concisepapers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material science. The focus is on principles and strategies for multiscale modeling and simulation of complex heterogeneous materials, with periodic or random microstructure, subjected to various types of mechanical, thermal, chemical loadings and environmental effects. A wide overview of complex behavior of materials (plasticity, damage, fracture, growth, etc.) is provided. Among various approaches, attention is given to advanced non-classical continua...
The book presents a series of concisepapers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material scie...
The volume offers advanced applications of surrogate modeling and optimization techniques which feature reasonable computational resources. The chapters contain basic theory concepts and their application to aerodynamic design cases. The book is aimed at researchers and engineers who deal with complex aerodynamic design problems on a daily basis and employ expensive simulations to solve it.
The volume offers advanced applications of surrogate modeling and optimization techniques which feature reasonable computational resources. The cha...
The book describes the implementation of different methods, including artificial neural networks, the Matrix Method, the Monte Carlo method and the virtual CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine), and demonstrates how these methods can be effectively used in practice to gauge the accuracy of coordinate measurements.
The book describes the implementation of different methods, including artificial neural networks, the Matrix Method, the Monte Carlo method and the vi...
This book reports on a novel approach for generating mechanical energy from different, external heat sources using the body of a typical piston engine with valves.
This book reports on a novel approach for generating mechanical energy from different, external heat sources using the body of a typical piston engine...
This book provides a brief introduction to the theory of finitedimensional differential inclusions, and deals in depth with control of threekinds of differential inclusion systems.
This book provides a brief introduction to the theory of finitedimensional differential inclusions, and deals in depth with control of threekinds of d...
This is the first book to introduce the irrational elliptic function series, providing a theoretical treatment for the smooth and discontinuous system and opening a new branch of applied mathematics. The discovery of the smooth and discontinuous (SD) oscillator and the SD attractors discussed in this book represents a further milestone in nonlinear dynamics, following on the discovery of the Ueda attractor in 1961 and Lorenz attractor in 1963.
This particular system bears significant similarities to the Duffing oscillator, exhibiting the standard dynamics governed by the hyperbolic...
This is the first book to introduce the irrational elliptic function series, providing a theoretical treatment for the smooth and discontinuous sys...
