Lectures on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Physics, and Linear Algebra

Lectures on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical Physics, and Linear Algebra
Author: Karl E. Gustafson
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1997
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9789810232139

Pt. I. Recent developments in computational fluid dynamics. ch. 1. Cavity flow -- ch. 2. Hovering aerodynamics. ch. 3. Capturing correct solutions -- pt. II. Recent developments in mathematical physics. ch. 1. Probabilistic and deterministic description. ch. 2. Scaling theories. ch. 3. Chaos in iterative maps -- pt. III. Recent developments in linear algebra. ch. 1. Operator Trigonometry. ch. 2. Antieigenvalues. ch. 3. Computational linear algebra

Wavelets, Multiscale Systems and Hypercomplex Analysis

Wavelets, Multiscale Systems and Hypercomplex Analysis
Author: Daniel Alpay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2006-08-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764375884

This volume contains a selection of papers on the topics of Clifford analysis and wavelets and multiscale analysis, the latter being understood in a very wide sense. The theory of wavelets is mathematically rich and has many practical applications. Most of the articles have been written on invitation and they provide a unique collection of material, particularly relating to Clifford analysis and the theory of wavelets.

Antieigenvalue Analysis

Antieigenvalue Analysis
Author: Karl Gustafson
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814366285

Karl Gustafson is the creater of the theory of antieigenvalue analysis. Its applications spread through fields as diverse as numerical analysis, wavelets, statistics, quantum mechanics, and finance. Antieigenvalue analysis, with its operator trigonometry, is a unifying language which enables new and deeper geometrical understanding of essentially every result in operator theory and matrix theory, together with their applications. This book will open up its methods to a wide range of specialists.

Flow Phenomena in Nature: Inspiration, learning and application

Flow Phenomena in Nature: Inspiration, learning and application
Author: R. Liebe
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2006-11-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1845640950

Do we have an adequate understanding of fluid dynamics phenomena in nature and evolution, and what physical models do we need? What can we learn from nature to stimulate innovations in thinking as well as in engineering applications? Concentrating on flight and propulsion, this unique and accessible book compares fluid dynamics solutions in nature with those in engineering. The respected international contributors present up-to-date research in an easy to understand manner, giving common viewpoints from fields such as zoology, engineering, biology, fluid mechanics and physics. This transdisciplinary approach eliminates barriers and opens wider perspectives to both of the challenging questions above. Contents: Applications in Engineering and Medicine; Inspiration from Nature; Steady and Unsteady Fluid Dynamics; Specific Numerical and Experimental Methods

Domain Decomposition Methods 10

Domain Decomposition Methods 10
Author: Jan Mandel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 569
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821809881

This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, which focused on the latest developments in realistic applications in structural mechanics, structural dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. The proceedings of these conferences have become standard references in the field and contain seminal papers as well as the latest theoretical results and reports on practical applications.

Generalized Functions, Operator Theory, and Dynamical Systems

Generalized Functions, Operator Theory, and Dynamical Systems
Author: Ioannis Antoniou
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1000657744

Nobel prize winner Ilya Prigogine writes in his preface: "Irreversibility is a challenge to mathematics...[which] leads to generalized functions and to an extension of spectral analysis beyond the conventional Hilbert space theory." Meeting this challenge required new mathematical formulations-obstacles met and largely overcome thanks primarily to the contributors to this volume." This compilation of works grew out of material presented at the "Hyperfunctions, Operator Theory and Dynamical Systems" symposium at the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry in 1997. The result is a coherently organized collective work that moves from general, widely applicable mathematical methods to ever more specialized physical applications. Presented in two sections, part one describes Generalized Functions and Operator Theory, part two addresses Operator Theory and Dynamical Systems. The interplay between mathematics and physics is now more necessary than ever-and more difficult than ever, given the increasing complexity of theories and methods.

Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC’2K

Unconventional Models of Computation, UMC’2K
Author: I. Antoniou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1447103130

This book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation (UMCK'2K), which was held at Solvay Institutes, Brussels, Belgium, in December 2000. Computers as we know them may be getting better and cheaper, and doing more for us, but they are still unable to cope with many tasks of practical interest. Nature, though, has been 'computing' with molecules and cells for billions of years, and these natural processes form the main motivation for the construction of radically new models of computation, the core theme of the papers in this volume. Unconventional Models of Computation, UMCK'2K covers all major areas of unconventional computation, including quantum computing, DNA-based computation, membrane computing and evolutionary algorithms.

Water in Biomechanical and Related Systems

Water in Biomechanical and Related Systems
Author: Adam Gadomski
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-04-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030672271

The contributed volume puts emphasis on a superior role of water in (bio)systems exposed to a mechanical stimulus. It is well known that water plays an extraordinary role in our life. It feeds mammalian or other organism after distributing over its whole volume to support certain physiological and locomotive (friction-adhesion) processes to mention but two of them, both of extreme relevance. Water content, not only in the mammalian organism but also in other biosystems such as whether those of soil which is equipped with microbiome or the ones pertinent to plants, having their own natural network of water vessels, is always subjected to a force field.The decisive force field applied to the biosystems makes them biomechanically agitated irrespective of whether they are subjected to external or internal force-field conditions. It ought to be noted that the decisive mechanical factor shows up in a close relation with the space-and-time scale in which it is causing certain specific phenomena to occur.The scale problem, emphasizing the range of action of gravitational force, thus the millimeter or bigger force vs. distance scale, is supposed to enter the so-called macroscale approach to water transportation through soil or plants’ roots system. It is merely related to a percolation problem, which assumes to properly inspect the random network architecture assigned to the biosystems invoked. The capillarity conditions turn out to be of prior importance, and the porous-medium effect has to be treated, and solved in a fairly approximate way.The deeper the scale is penetrated by a force-exerting and hydrated agent the more non-gravitational force fields manifest. This can be envisaged in terms of the corresponding thermodynamic (non-Newtonian) forces, and the phenomena of interest are mostly attributed to suitable changes of the osmotic pressure. In low Reynolds number conditions, thus in the (sub)micrometer distance-scale zone, they are related with the corresponding viscosity changes of the aqueous, e.g. cytoplasmatic solutions, of semi-diluted and concentrated (but also electrolytic) characteristics. For example, they can be observed in articulating systems of mammals, in their skin, and to some extent, in other living beings, such as lizards, geckos or even insects. Through their articulating devices an external mechanical stimulus is transmitted from macro- to nanoscale, wherein the corresponding osmotic-pressure conditions apply. The content of the proposed work can be distributed twofold. First, the biomechanical mammalian-type (or, similar) systems with extraordinary relevance of water for their functioning will be presented, also including a presentation of water itself as a key physicochemical system/medium. Second, the suitably chosen related systems, mainly of soil and plant addressing provenience, will be examined thoroughly. As a common denominator of all of them, it is proposed to look at their hydrophobic and/or (de)hydration effects, and how do they impact on their basic mechanical (and related, such as chemo-mechanical or piezoelectric, etc.) properties. An additional tacit assumption employed throughout the monograph concerns statistical scalability of the presented biosystems which is equivalent to take for granted a certain similarity between local and global system’s properties, mostly those of mechanical nature. The presented work’s chapters also focus on biodiversity and ecological aspects in the world of animals and plants, and the related systems. The chapters’ contents underscore the bioinspiration as the key landmark of the proposed monograph.

Harmonic, Wavelet and P-adic Analysis

Harmonic, Wavelet and P-adic Analysis
Author: Nguyen Minh Chuong
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2007
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981270549X

The mutual influence between mathematics and science and technology is becoming more and more widespread with profound connections among them being discovered. In particular, important connections between harmonic analysis, wavelet analysis and p-adic analysis have been found recently. This volume reports these findings and guides the reader towards the latest areas for further research. It is divided into two parts: harmonic, wavelet and p-adic analysis and p-adic and stochastic analysis.