Hydraulic Behaviour -- Laboratory Experiments and Simulations on the Significance of Non-Equilibrium Effect in the Capillary Pressure-Saturation Relationship -- Determination of hydro-mechanical Properties of Sand -- Column test apparatus for the inverse estimation of soil hydraulic parameters under defined stress condition -- Water permeability of unsaturated compacted kaolin -- Moisture reten…
Part I Deterministic Methods and Procedures. Spectral Analysis of Finite Dimensional Operators. Finite Element Method. Non-Linear Static Analysis. Dynamic Analysis -- Part II Probabilistic Methods and Procedures. Rational Treatment of Uncertainties. Karhunen-Loève Expansion. Direct Monte Carlo Simulation. Equivalent Statistical Linearization. Random Vibrations of Large Finite Element Systems -…
Molecular Structure and Energy States -- Some Basic Concepts of Kinetic Theory -- Interaction of Molecules with Solid Surface -- Free Molecular Flow -- Continuum Models -- Transitional Regime -- Direct Simulation Monte-Carlo (DSMC) Method -- Microscale Slow Gas Flows, IP Method.This book elucidates the methods of molecular gas dynamics or rarefied gas dynamics which treat the problems of gas fl…
Introduction to the Propagation of Radio Waves -- The Earth’s Atmosphere -- Electromagnetic Waves and Propagation Characteristics -- Ionospheric Links -- Terrestrial Fixed Links -- Satellite Links -- Mobile Radio Links -- The Sun and the Solar Activity -- Microphysical Properties of Hydrometeors -- The Frequency Spectrum -- Cross-Polarisation induced by the Atmosphere -- Fresnel Equations -- …
Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer -- Digging Foundations for the “Royal Road” -- One Fellow’s View of the “Royal Road” -- Reminiscences of a Japanese Contemporary -- RR CrB and Algol — The First and Last Star in Zden?k Kopal’s Life with Binaries -- Atmospheric Eclipses in WR+O Binaries: From Kopal and Shapley to Present Days -- Binary Star Morpholo…
Fresnel’s (Dragging) Coefficient as a Challenge to 19th Century Optics of Moving Bodies -- Poincaré’s Relativistic Theory of Gravitation -- Standing on the Shoulders of a Dwarf: General Relativity—A Triumph of Einstein and Grossmann’s Erroneous Entwurf Theory -- Before the Riemann Tensor: The Emergence of Einstein’s Double Strategy -- A Conjecture on Einstein, the Independent Reality…
The Unification Paradigm -- Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology -- Different Approaches: Quantum Superstrings and Quantum Gravity -- Other Approaches -- Fuzzy Spacetime and the Planck Scale -- The Universe of Fluctuations -- Quantum Geometry -- How Fundamental is Gravitation? -- The Elusive Mass Spectrum -- Experimental Effects.
Statistical Methods -- Uniform and Correlated Mass Density Fields -- The Power Spectrum and the Classification of Stationary Stochastic Fields -- Fractals -- Multifractals and Mass Distributions -- Applications to Cosmology -- Fluctuations in Standard Cosmological Models: A Real Space View -- Discrete Representation of Fluctuations in Cosmological Models -- Galaxy Surveys: An Introduction to Th…
Statistical Description of Large Systems. Postulates of Statistical Physics -- The Different Statistical Ensembles. General Methods in Statistical Physics -- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics in Equilibrium -- The Ideal Gas -- Indistinguishability, the Pauli Principle (Quantum Mechanics) -- General Properties of the Quantum Statistics -- Free Fermions Properties -- Elements of Bands Theory…
Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution -- Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context -- Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective -- Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies? -- The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83 -- Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies -- First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey…