The Conception, Gestation, Birth, and Infancy of FCT -- The Design of Flux-Corrected Transport (FCT) Algorithms For Structured Grids -- On Monotonically Integrated Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows Based on FCT Algorithms -- Large Scale Urban Simulations with FCT -- 30 Years of FCT: Status and Directions -- Algebraic Flux Correction I. Scalar Conservation Laws -- Algebraic Flux Correctio…
Selected Aspects of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses and Nonlinear Optics -- The Lorentz Oscillator Model and Beyond … -- The Drude Free-Electron Model and Beyond … -- Lorentz Becomes Drude: Bound—Unbound Transitions -- Accounting for Propagation Effects -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Semiconductors and Isolators -- Extreme Nonlinear Optics of Atoms and Electrons.Following the birth of the laser in…
Pattern Formation and Growth Phenomena -- to Part I -- Kinetic Pattern Formation at Solid Surfaces -- Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation in Semiconductor Systems -- Group Theoretic Methods in the Theory of Pattern Formation -- On Fundamental Structure-Forming Processes -- Dynamics of Disordered Systems -- to Part II -- Glass Transition in Colloids and Undercooled Liquids -- Experimental I…
Theory -- A Short Ergodic Theory Refresher -- Notes on Spectral Theory, Mixing and Transport -- Complexity, Fractal Dimensions and Topological Entropy in Dynamical Systems -- Working with Complexity Functions -- SRB distribution for Anosov maps -- Dynamical Systems Theory of Irreversibility -- Aspects of Open Quantum System Dynamics -- Energy Surfaces and Hierarchies of Bifurcations -- Phase-Sp…
Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors -- The Development and Optimisation of High Bandwidth Bimorph Deformable Mirrors -- Deformable Mirrors with Thermal Actuators -- Technology and Operation of a Liquid Crystal Modal Wavefront Corrector -- Aberration Compensation Using Nematic Liquid Crystals -- Wireless Control of an LC Adaptive Lens -- Summary of Adaptive Optics at Stanford -- Control of…
Genetic algorithms: a guide for absolute beginners -- Evolutionary algorithms and their theory -- Epistasis -- Examples -- Walsh transforms -- Multary epistasis -- Generalized Walsh transforms.
Transport properties of porous media -- Transport in Porous Media: Upscaling by Multiscale Asymptotic Expansions -- Micromechanical Analysis of Saturated Porous Media with Local Mass Exchange Phenomenon -- Diffusive transport in disordered media. Application to the determination of the tortuosity and the permeability of cracked materials. -- Microporomechanics -- Poroelasticity and strength of …
Korteweg de-Vries Equation -- Weakly Nonlinear Wave Packets and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation -- Wave Interactions -- Wave-mean interaction theory -- Wave Turbulence with Applications to Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves -- Nonlinear Amplitude Equations and Soliton Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates.Although nonlinear waves occur in nearly all branches of physics and engi neering, the…
Transport in Freight Carrier Networks -- Operational Freight Transport Planning -- Pickup and Delivery Selection Problems -- Memetic Algorithms -- Memetic Algorithm Vehicle Routing -- Memetic Search for Optimal PD-Schedules -- Coping with Compulsory Requests -- Request Selection and Collaborative Planning -- Conclusions.This book represents the compilation of several research approaches on oper…
Basic Photophysics -- Physical Properties of Paints -- Radiative Energy Transport and Intensity-Based Methods -- Image and Data Analysis Techniques -- Lifetime-Based Methods -- Uncertainty -- Time Response -- Applications of Pressure Sensitive Paint -- Applications of Temperature Sensitive Paint.Luminescent molecule sensors, called pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) and temperature-sensitive paint …