Fluid Frontiers

Fluid Frontiers
Author: John Gillis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781874267867

A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY, MEANING AND MATERIALITY OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT There is a blue hole in environmental history. The thirteen essays in this very accessible collection fill it by closing the gap between land and sea, by exploring the ways the earthly and maritime realms influence one another. What has too often been described as the 'eternal sea' is shown to be remarkably dynamic. Ranging widely from Australia to the Arctic, from ocean depths to high islands, a new generation of humanists and scientists trespass the boundaries of their own fields of inquiry to tie together human and natural histories. They reflect contemporary concerns with declining fisheries, damaged estuaries, and vanishing coastal communities. Here the history of oceanic sciences meets that of literary and artistic imagination, offering vivid insights into the meanings as well as the materiality of waves and swamps, coasts and coral reefs. In their introduction, John Gillis and Franziska Torma suggest the directions in which the fluid frontiers of marine environmental history are moving.

Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002

Frontiers of Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002
Author: Robert William MacCormack
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2002
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789812810793

This series of volumes on the OC Frontiers of Computational Fluid DynamicsOCO was introduced to honor contributors who have made a major impact on the field. The first volume was published in 1994 and was dedicated to Prof Antony Jameson; the second was published in 1998 and was dedicated to Prof Earl Murman. The volume is dedicated to Prof Robert MacCormack. The twenty-six chapters in the current volume have been written by leading researchers from academia, government laboratories, and industry. They present up-to-date descriptions of recent developments in techniques for numerical analysis of fluid flow problems, and applications of these techniques to important problems in industry, as well as the classic paper that introduced the OC MacCormack schemeOCO to the world. Contents: The Effect of Viscosity in Hypervelocity Impact Cratering (R W MacCormack); The MacCormack Method OCo Historical Perspective (C M Hung et al.); Numerical Solutions of Cauchy-Riemann Equations for Two and Three Dimensional Flows (M M Hafez & J Houseman); Extension of Efficient Low Dissipation High Order Schemes for 3-D Curvilinear Moving Grids (M Vinokur & H C Yee); Scalable Parallel Implicit Multigrid Solution of Unsteady Incompressible Flows (R Pankajakshan et al.); Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Incompressible Flows (N Satofuka & M Ishikura); Numerical Simulation of MHD Effects on Hypersonic Flow of a Weakly Ionized Gas in an Inlet (R K Agarwal & P Deb); Development of 3D DRAGON Grid Method for Complex Geometry (M-S Liou & Y Zheng); Advances in Algorithms for Computing Aerodynamic Flows (D W Zingg et al.); Selected CFD Capabilities at DLR (W Kordulla); CFD Applications to Space Transportation Systems (K Fujii); Information Science OCo A New Frontier of CFD (K Oshima & Y Oshima); Integration of CFD into Aerodynamics Education (E M Murman & A Rizzi); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in numerical and computational mathematics."

Empire on Edge

Empire on Edge
Author: Rajeshwari Dutt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108493424

Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty
Author: Rhoads Murphey
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441102515

Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities, based around the palace and court culture and rituals of sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central state administrative apparatus. Sovereignty was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.

The Nation

The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 718
Release: 1918
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002

Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002
Author: K. Matsuno
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 621
Release: 2003-04-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080538428

This volume is proceedings of the international conference of the Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics 2002. In the volume, up-to-date information about numerical simulations of flows using parallel computers is given by leading researchers in this field. Special topics are "Grid Computing" and "Earth Simulator". Grid computing is now the most exciting topic in computer science. An invited paper on grid computing is presented in the volume. The Earth-Simulator is now the fastest computer in the world. Papers on flow-simulations using the Earth-Simulator are also included, as well as a thirty-two page special tutorial article on numerical optimization.

Disorders of Fluid and Electrolyte Metabolism

Disorders of Fluid and Electrolyte Metabolism
Author: Alessandro Peri
Publisher: Karger Medical Scientific
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Hyponatremia
ISBN: 9783318063820

It is well known that acute, severe hyponatremia is a life-threatening situation. However, there is growing evidence that mild and chronic hyponatremia may also have negative consequences. Gait disturbances, attention deficits, falls and fractures, and bone loss have all been reported, with increased mortality in almost every disease state if the patient is hyponatremic. This book has been written by key opinion leaders in the field and covers a spectrum of crucial aspects of hyponatremia, including a historical perspective, physiology and pathophysiology of water homeostasis, epidemiology of hyponatremia, and clinical features. A detailed description of all available therapies has been incorporated, with a guide to a clinician's approach to key therapeutic situations. Hyponatremia is a topic that encompasses all areas of medicine, so this book will be of interest to specialists such as endocrinologists, nephrologists and internists, but will also be a valuable resource for all clinicians who manage patients with hyponatremia.

Governing the Rainforest

Governing the Rainforest
Author: Eve Z. Bratman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190949406

Sustainable development is often thought of as a product that can be obtained by following a prescribed course of interventions. Rather than conceptualizing it as a sweet spot of economic, ecological, and social balance, sustainable development is an ongoing process of embroilments requiring constant negotiation of often-competing aims. Sustainable development politics yield highly uneven results among different members of society and different geographic areas. As this book argues, such imbalances mean that sustainable development processes often prioritize economic over environmental goals, perpetuating and reinforcing economic and political inequalities. Governing the Rainforest looks at development and conservation efforts in the Brazilian Amazon, where the government and corporate interests bump up against those of environmentalists and local populations. This book asks why sustainable development continues to be such a powerful and influential idea in the region, and what impact it has had on various political and economic interests and geographic areas. In other words, as Eve Z. Bratman argues, sustainable development is a political practice in itself. This book offers detailed case study analysis, including of the creation of vast conservation corridors, the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world, and new forms of land settlement projects. Based on a decade of Bratman's ethnographic fieldwork throughout Brazil, and particularly along the Trans-Amazonian Highway, Governing the Rainforest offers a fresh take on sustainable development within a multi-level analysis of actors, discourses, and practices.

A World of Water

A World of Water
Author: P. Boomgaard
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004254013

Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries, contains thirteen essays, representing a broad range of approaches to the study of Southeast Asia with water as the central theme. As it was exposed to the sea, the region was more accessible to outside political, economic and cultural influences than many landlocked areas. Easy access through sea routes also stimulated trade from an early age. However, the same easy access made Southeast Asia vulnerable to political control by strong outsiders. The sea is, moreover, a source of food, but also of many hazards. At the same time, Southeast Asian societies and cultures are confronted with and permeated by 'water from heaven' in the form of rain, flash floods, irrigation water, water in rivers, brooks and swaps, water-driven power plants, and pumped or piped water, in addition to water as a carrier of sewage and pollution. Finally, the volume deals with the role of water in classification systems, beliefs, myths, illness and healing.

Imagining a Postnational World

Imagining a Postnational World
Author: Marc Andre Matten
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004327150

This book analyzes the historical significance of rivaling concepts of world order in 20th century East Asia. Since the arrival of European imperialism in 19th century – coupled with its different schools of political philosophy and international law – China has struggled to combine ideas on national sovereignty, spatiality and hegemony in its quest of either imitating or replacing European norms of world order. By analyzing Chinese visions of regional and international order and comparing them with Japanese proposals of that era, this book discusses in detail the relationship of territoriality and political rule, discourses of amity and enmity, and finally the role of hegemoniality in the process of imagining a possible postnational world in 21st century East Asia and beyond.