An Introduction to Computational Intelligence -- Fuzzy Sets and Relations -- Fuzzy Logic and Approximate Reasoning -- Fuzzy Logic in Process Control -- Fuzzy Pattern Recognition -- Fuzzy Databases and Possibilistic Reasoning -- to Machine Learning Using Neural Nets -- Supervised Neural Learning Algorithms -- Unsupervised Neural Learning Algorithms -- Competitive Learning Using Neural Nets -- Ne…
Conservation Equations -- Turbulence Models -- Numerical Methods for Model Parabolic and Elliptic Equations -- Numerical Methods for Model Hyperbolic Equations -- Inviscid Flow Equations for Incompressible Flows -- Boundary-Layer Equations -- Stability and Transition -- Grid Generation -- Inviscid Compressible Flow -- Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations -- Compressible Navier-Stokes Equation…
Quantum Fluids -- Helium — General Properties -- Superfluid 4He — Helium II -- Normal-Fluid 3He -- Superfluid 3He -- Mixtures of 3He and 4He -- Solids at Low Temperatures -- Phonons -- Conduction Electrons -- Magnetic Moments — Spins -- Tunneling Systems -- Superconductivity -- Principles of Refrigeration and Thermometry -- Cooling Techniques -- Thermometry.This book provides a concise bu…
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes -- to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect -- Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity -- Lectures on D-branes, Tachyon Condensation, and String Field Theory -- Billiard Dynamics of Einstein-Matter Systems Near a Spacelike Singularity -- Tall Tales from de Sitter Space -- Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity -- Thermaldecay of the Cosmolo…
Electrodynamic Properties of a General Physical System -- General Properties of the Linear Optical Response -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules in Linear Optics -- General Properties of the Nonlinear Optical Response -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules in Nonlinear Optics -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum Rules for Harmonic-Generation Processes -- Kramers-Kronig Relations and Sum …
Introduction -- The Source of Examples -- Invariance Equation in the Differential Form -- Film Extension of the Dynamics: Slowness as Stability -- Entropy, Quasi-Equilibrium and Projector Field -- Newton Method with Incomplete Linearization -- Quasi-chemical Representation -- Hydrodynamics from Grad's Equations: Exact Solutions -- Relaxation Methods -- Method of Invariant Grids -- Method of Nat…
Orders of Magnitude in Optics -- Electromagnetic Waves -- Geometrical Optics -- Polarized Light—Laws of Reflection -- Birefringence -- Interference -- Diffraction -- Index of Refraction -- Lasers -- Nonlinear Optics -- Raman-Brillouin-Rayleigh Diffusion -- Guided Optics -- Fourier Analysis and Fourier Transform.Since the discovery of the laser in 1960 and optical fibers in 1970, optics has un…
Our Galaxy, Host of the Interstellar Medium -- Radiations and Magnetic Fields -- Radiative Transfer and Excitation -- The Neutral Interstellar Gas -- The Ionized Interstellar Gas -- The Interstellar Medium at High Energies -- Interstellar Dust -- Heating and Cooling of the Interstellar Gas -- Interstellar Chemistry -- Photodissociation Regions -- Shocks -- Shock Applications -- Interstellar Tur…
to Particle-Beam Formation -- Methods of Fields Calculation -- Fundamentals of Charged-Particle Motion -- Motion of Intense Charged-Particle Beams -- Electron Guns -- Electron and Ion Sources with Field and Plasma Emitters -- Magnetic Focusing Systems -- Electrostatic Focusing Systems -- Optical Systems of Technological Installations -- Intense Relativistic Charged-Particle Beams -- Multiple-Be…
Equations of State, Initial and Boundary Conditions -- Underwater Explosions, Shock Tubes, and Explosive Sound Sources -- Explosion of Cylindrical and Circular Charges -- Single Bubble, Cumulative Effects and Chemical Reactions -- Shock Waves in Bubbly Media -- Problems of Cavitative Destruction -- Jet Flows at Shallow Underwater Explosions -- Conclusion: Comments on the Models.Hydronamics of E…