Uncertainty and Surprise: An Introduction -- Understanding Social and Economic Systems as Evolutionary Complex Systems -- Managing the Unexpected -- Surprises in Half of a Century -- An Integrated View of Uncertainty and Surprise -- Fundamental 'Uncertainty' in Science -- The Complementary Nature of Coordination Dynamics: Self-Organization and the Creation of Information -- The tyranny of Many …
Short Primer on Basic Averaging And Modeling Approaches for Turbulent Mixing Instabilities -- '0D' Reduction of Experiments and Models in Mixing Instabilities -- Comparative Assessment of Models, New Development Approaches.Part textbook, part exploratory work, this book aims to raise the awareness of students, physicists, and engineers in turbulence on the modeling of gravitationally induced tu…
MEASUREMENT OF NEAR-MEGAWATT MILLIMETER-WAVE BEAMS -- OVERSIZED TRANSMISSION LINES FOR GYROTRON-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL OVENS AND PLASMA-CHEMICAL REACTORS -- DEVELOPMENT OF LUMPED AND DISTRIBUTED MODELS FOR ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS OF Q-FACTORS OF QUASIOPTICAL RESONATORS -- THE MODE-MATCHING TECHNIQUE AND FAST NUMERICAL MODELS OF ARBITRARY COORDINATE WAVEGUIDE OBJECTS -- ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATI…
Plasma Physics -- Nature of Plasma -- Plasma Characteristics -- Magnetic Configuration and Particle Orbit -- Velocity Space Distribution Function and Boltzmann’s Equation -- Plasma as MHD Fluid -- Equilibrium -- Plasma Transport -- Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities -- Resistive Instabilities -- Plasma as Medium of Waves -- Landau Damping and Cyclotron Damping -- Hot Plasma -- Instabilities Dr…
Flow regime transition criteria -- Drag forces -- Friction pressure drop -- Diffusion velocities for algebraic slip models -- Entrainment in annular two-phase flow -- Deposition in annular two-phase flow -- to fragmentation and coalescence -- Acceleration induced droplet and bubble fragmentation -- Turbulence induced particle fragmentation and coalescence -- Liquid and gas jet disintegration --…
Mass conservation -- Momentums conservation -- Derivatives for the equations of state -- On the variety of notations of the energy conservation for single-phase flow -- First and second laws of the thermodynamics -- Some simple applications of the mass and energy conservation -- Exergy of multi-phase multi-component systems -- One-dimensional three-fluid flows -- Detonation waves caused by chem…
A First Look -- Observers -- Translations -- Positions -- Rotations -- Orientations -- Review -- Velocities -- Constraints -- Review -- A Look Ahead.Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and …
General Characteristic of Control Systems -- Formal Models of Control Systems -- Control for the Given State (the Given Output) -- Optimal Control with Complete Information on the Plant -- Parametric Optimization -- Application of Relational Description of Uncertainty -- Application of Probabilistic Descriptions of Uncertainty -- Uncertain Variables and Their Applications -- Fuzzy Variables, An…
Review of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) Multi-Port System Theory -- Analysis of Space-Time Signals -- Antennas and Radiation -- Signal Space Concepts and Algorithms -- MIMO Channel Problems and Solutions.This text evolved from notes used to teach two-semester courses on multi-port signals and systems theory and vector-valued signal transmission to third-year electrical and computer engineering st…
Equations with One Dependent Function -- Systems of Equations -- Method of the Degenerate Hodograph -- Method of Differential Constraints -- Invariant and Partially Invariant Solutions -- Symmetries of Equations with Nonlocal Operators -- Symbolic Computer Calculations.Differential equations, especially nonlinear, present the most effective way for describing complex physical processes. Each so…