The VEE Pro Development Environment -- Preparing and Testing a Program -- Controlling and Communicating to Instruments -- Controlling Real Instruments -- Analyzing and Displaying Test Data -- Manipulating Arrays, To/From Files, and Statistical Parameters -- Working with Records -- Working with Databases and Operator Interfaces -- Creating Spreadsheets and Reports -- Practicing Monitoring via th…
Turbomachinery Flow Physics -- Introduction, Turbomachinery, Applications, Types -- Kinematics of Turbomachinery Fluid Motion -- Differential Balances in Turbomachinery -- Integral Balances in Turbomachinery -- Theory of Turbomachinery Stages -- Turbine and Compressor Cascade Flow Forces -- Turbomachinery Losses, Efficiencies, Blades -- Losses in Turbine and Compressor Cascades -- Efficiency of…
On the instability of double diffusive convection in porous media under boundary data periodic in space -- Modelling of a free piston problem -- Reflections on frequently used viscoplastic constitutive models -- On hereditary models of polymers -- Edge contact forces in continuous media -- Tangent stiffness of a Timoshenko beam undergoing large displacements -- Qualitative estimates for cross-s…
Fundamentals of Welding Thermomechanics -- Description of Welding Deformations -- Stress Tensor -- Thermodynamical Background of Welding Processes -- Motion of Fluids -- Thermomechanical Behaviour -- Numerical Analysis of Welding Problems -- Numerical Methods in Thermomechanics -- Heat Flow in Welding -- Analytical Solutions of Thermal Problems in Welding -- Numerical Solutions of Thermal Probl…
Design Sensitivity Analysis of Nonlinear Structural Systems -- Nonlinear Structural Analysis -- Nonlinear Sizing Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Nonlinear Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Nonlinear Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Numerical Implementation and Applications -- Design Parameterization -- Numerical Implementation of Sensitivity Analysis -- Design Applications.Structu…
Structural Design and Analysis -- to Structural Design -- Variational Methods of Structural Systems -- Variational Equations and Finite Element Methods -- Design Sensitivity Analysis of Linear Structural Systems -- Discrete Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Continuum Sizing Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Continuum Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis -- Configuration Design Sensitivity Analysis.Struc…
Ship Modelling for Control -- Environmental Disturbances -- Kinematics of Ship Motion -- Ship Kinetics -- Control Surfaces (Actuators) -- to Ship Motion Control -- to Ship Roll Stabilisation -- Ship Roll Stabilisation -- Ship Motion Performance -- Performance Limitations in Feedback Control with Application to Ship Roll Stabilisers -- Linear Performance Limitations -- Constrained Performance Li…
Screw Compressor Geometry -- Calculation of Screw Compressor Performance -- Principles of Screw Compressor Design -- Examples of Modern Screw Compressor Designs -- Conclusions.The first part of "Screw Compressors" gives a review of recent developments in screw compressor design. The second part presents a generalized mathematical definition of screw machine rotors and describes some well known …
Optimal Controls on Finite and Infinite Horizons: A Review -- State Feedback Receding Horizon Controls -- Receding Horizon Filters -- Output Feedback Receding Horizon Controls -- Constrained Receding Horizon Controls -- Nonlinear Receding Horizon Controls.Receding Horizon Control introduces the essentials of a successful feedback strategy that has emerged in many industrial fields: the process …
Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Scanning Probe Microscopy — Principle of Operation, Instrumentation, and Probes -- Probes in Scanning Microscopies -- Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Related Topics -- Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscopy -- Dynamic Force Microscopy -- Molecular Recognition Force Microscopy -- — Measurement Techniques and Applications -- Nanotribology and Nanomec…