Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Physics - Mathematical & Computational

Das Buch fuhrt in die Bereiche der Kontinuumstheorie ein, die fur Ingenieure relevant sind: die Deformation des elastischen und des plastifizierenden Festkorpers, die Stromung reibungsfreier und reibungsbehafteter Fluide sowie die Elektrodynamik. Der Autor baut die Theorie im Sinne der rationalen Mechanik auf, d.h., er erstellt ein Feldgleichungssystem und gibt sozusagen nebenbei eine Einfuhrung in die Tensoranalysis. Dabei werden sowohl der Indexkalkul als auch die absolute Schreibweise verwendet und gegenubergestellt.

This book contains a collection of the main contributions from the first five workshops held by Ercoftac Special Interest Group on Synthetic Turbulence Models (SIG42. It is intended as an illustration of the sig s activities and of the latest developments in the field.

Thisvolume investigates the use of Kinematic Simulation (KS) and other synthetic turbulence models for the particular application to environmental flows.

Thisvolume offers the best syntheses on the research status in KS, which iswidely used in various domains, including Lagrangian aspects in turbulence mixing/stirring,...

The book provides theoretical and phenomenological insights on the structure of matter, presenting concepts and features of elementary particle physics and fundamental aspects of nuclear physics.

Starting with the basics (nomenclature, classification, acceleration techniques, detection of elementary particles), the properties of fundamental interactions (electromagnetic, weak and strong) are introduced with a mathematical formalism suited to undergraduate students. Some experimental results (the discovery of neutral currents and of the W and Z0 bosons; the quark structure observed...

Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry I: An Overview of the Last Two Decades and Current Trends gathers the advances made within the last 20 years by well-known experts in the area of theoretical and computational chemistry and physics. The title itself reflects the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Conference on Current Trends in Computational Chemistry (CCTCC) to which all authors have participated and contributed to its success.

This volume poses (and answers) important questions of interest to the computational chemistry community and beyond. What is...

This textbook now in its second revised and extended edition introduces the topology of 3- and 4-dimensional manifolds. It also considers new developments especially related to the Heegaard Floer and contact homology. The book is accessible to graduate students in mathematics and theoretical physics familiar with some elementary algebraic topology, including the fundamental group, basic homology theory, and Poincare duality on manifolds.

This new edition continues to serve as a comprehensive guide to modern and classical methods of statistical computing. The book is comprised of four main parts spanning the field:

• Optimization
• Integration and Simulation
• Bootstrapping
• Density Estimation and Smoothing

Within these sections, each chapter includes a comprehensive introduction and step-by-step implementation summaries to accompany the explanations of key methods. The new edition includes updated coverage and existing topics as well as new topics such as adaptive MCMC and...

Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises with their complex mathematical models. Their formulas were meant to allow Wall Street to prosper without risk. But in this penetrating insider's look at the recent economic collapse, Emanuel Derman--former head quant at Goldman Sachs--explains the collision between mathematical...

Many large-scale projects for detecting gravitational radiation are currently being developed, all with the aim of opening a new window onto the observable Universe. As a result, numerical relativity has recently become a major field of research, and Elements of Numerical Relativity and Relativistic Hydrodynamics is a valuable primer for both graduate students and non-specialist researchers wishing to enter the field.

A revised and significantly enlarged edition of LNP 673 Elements of Numerical Relativity, this book starts with the most basic insights and aspects of numerical...