This book describes in detail the current, state-of-the-art numerical treatment and simulation of multiphase flows in porous media. The porous media considered range from ordinary to fractured and deformable media, the models treated from single-phase compressible flow to multiphase multicomponent flow with mass interchange, while the computational algorithms encompass everything from classical iterative solvers to modern multigrid and domain decomposition approaches. Addressing many problems originating from the applied geosciences, the book focuses on their common mathematical and...

Intelligent agents - software systems capable of performing tasks within a dynamic and unpredictable environment - are one of the most promising business tools in our information rich world. This text covers a selection of research results that demonstrate the applications of agents in society.

Offers a fundamental and practical introduction to the finite element method, its variants, and their applications in engineering. This title introduces various finite elements in one, two, and three space dimensions, and their applications to elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic, and nonlinear equations and to solid mechanics and fluid mechanics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on High Performance Computing and Applications, HPCA 2015, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2015.

The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers cover the following research areas: numerical algorithms and solutions; high performance and grid computing; novel approached to high performance computing; massive data storage and processing; hardware acceleration; applications.