The Method of Weighted Residuals and Variational Principles

The Method of Weighted Residuals and Variational Principles
Author: Bruce A. Finlayson
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2013-12-30
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1611973236

This classic book covers the solution of differential equations in science and engineering in such as way as to provide an introduction for novices before progressing toward increasingly more difficult problems. The Method of Weighted Residuals and Variational Principles describes variational principles, including how to find them and how to use them to construct error bounds and create stationary principles. The book also illustrates how to use simple methods to find approximate solutions, shows how to use the finite element method for more complex problems, and provides detailed information on error bounds. Problem sets make this book ideal for self-study or as a course text.

An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids

An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids
Author: C. Truesdell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0817648461

A compact, moderately general book which encompasses many fluid models of current interest...The book is written very clearly and contains a large number of exercises and their solutions. The level of mathematics is that commonly taught to undergraduates in mathematics departments.. —Mathematical Reviews The book should be useful for graduates and researchers not only in applied mathematics and mechanical engineering but also in advanced materials science and technology...Each public scientific library as well as hydrodynamics hand libraries should own this timeless book...Everyone who decides to buy this book can be sure to have bought a classic of science and the heritage of an outstanding scientist. —Silikáty All applied mathematicians, mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, and engineering mechanics graduates and researchers will find the book an essential reading resource for fluids. —Simulation News Europe

The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection

The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection
Author: Brian Straughan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0387217401

Six new chapters (14-19) deal with topics of current interest: multi-component convection diffusion, convection in a compressible fluid, convenction with temperature dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity, penetrative convection, nonlinear stability in ocean circulation models, and numerical solution of eigenvalue problems.

Proceedings, "WASCOM 2003"

Proceedings,
Author: Roberto Monaco
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 590
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 981238748X

This book contains about 20 invited papers and 40 contributed papers in the research areas of theoretical continuum mechanics, kinetic theory and numerical applications of continuum mechanics. Collectively these papers give a good overview of the activities and developments in these fields in the last few years.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: ? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings? (ISTP? / ISI Proceedings)? Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)? CC Proceedings ? Engineering & Physical Sciences

Functional Analysis and Evolution Equations

Functional Analysis and Evolution Equations
Author: Herbert Amann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764377941

Gunter Lumer was an outstanding mathematician whose works have great influence on the research community in mathematical analysis and evolution equations. He was at the origin of the breath-taking development the theory of semigroups saw after the pioneering book of Hille and Phillips from 1957. This volume contains invited contributions presenting the state of the art of these topics and reflecting the broad interests of Gunter Lumer.

Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Viscous Flows

Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Viscous Flows
Author: William Layton
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0898718902

Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Incompressible Viscous Flows treats the numerical analysis of finite element computational fluid dynamics. Assuming minimal background, the text covers finite element methods; the derivation, behavior, analysis, and numerical analysis of Navier-Stokes equations; and turbulence and turbulence models used in simulations. Each chapter on theory is followed by a numerical analysis chapter that expands on the theory. This book provides the foundation for understanding the interconnection of the physics, mathematics, and numerics of the incompressible case, which is essential for progressing to the more complex flows not addressed in this book (e.g., viscoelasticity, plasmas, compressible flows, coating flows, flows of mixtures of fluids, and bubbly flows). With mathematical rigor and physical clarity, the book progresses from the mathematical preliminaries of energy and stress to finite element computational fluid dynamics in a format manageable in one semester. Audience: this unified treatment of fluid mechanics, analysis, and numerical analysis is intended for graduate students in mathematics, engineering, physics, and the sciences who are interested in understanding the foundations of methods commonly used for flow simulations.

Non-Classical Elastic Solids

Non-Classical Elastic Solids
Author: Michele Ciarletta
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1000115267

Problems concerning non-classical elastic solids continue to attract the attention of mathematicians, scientists and engineers. Research in this area addresses problems concerning many substances, such as crystals, polymers, composites, ceramics and blood. This comprehensive, accessible work brings together recent research in this field, and will be of great interest to mathematicians, physicists and other specialists working in this area.