Orbit Dynamics, Stability and Chaos in Planetary Systems -- Regular and Chaotic Motion in Hamiltonian Systems -- Planet Formation -- Extrasolar Planetary Systems.This book is intended as an introduction to the field of planetary systems at the postgraduate level. It consists of four extensive lectures on Hamiltonian dynamics, celestial mechanics, the structure of extrasolar planetary systems an…
Entropy and the Second Law -- Challenges (1870–1980) -- Modern Quantum Challenges: Theory -- Low-Temperature Experiments and Proposals -- Modern Classical Challenges -- Gravitational Challenges -- Chemical Nonequilibrium Steady States -- Plasma Paradoxes -- MEMS/NEMS Devices -- Special Topics.The second law of thermodynamics is considered one of the central laws of science, engineering and te…
S. Anantawaraskul, J.B.P. Soares, P.M. Wood-Adams: Fractionation of Semicrystalline Polymers by Crystallization Analysis Fractionation and Temperature Rising Elution Fractionation -- G.J. Vancso, H. Hillborg, H. Schönherr: Chemical Composition of Polymer Surfaces Imaged by Atomic Force Microscopy and Complementary Approaches -- S. Ito, H. Aoki: Nano-Imaging of Polymers by Optical Microscopy --…
Fractals in Geophysics and Seismology: An Introduction -- Fractal Modeling of Complex Subsurface Geological Structures -- The Route to Fractals in Magnetotelluric Exploration of the Crust -- Regularity Analysis Applied to Well Log Data -- Electrokinetic Effect in Fractal Pore Media as Seismoelectric Phenomena -- Fractal Network and Mixture Models for Elastic and Electrical Properties of Porous …
From the contents: Part I Control Applications of Polynomial Positivity Control Applications of Sum of Squares Programming; Analysis of Non-polynomial Systems Using the Sum of Squares Decomposition; A Sum-of-Squares Approach to Fixed-Order H8-Synthesis; LMI Optimization for Fixed-Order H8 Controller Design; An LMI-based Technique for Robust Stability Analysis of Linear Systems with Polynomial P…
Background Material -- A Dynamical Systems Point of View -- Numerical Techniques -- The Wind-Driven Circulation -- The Thermohaline Circulation -- The Dynamics and Physics of ENSO.In this book, methodology of dynamical systems theory is applied to investigate the physics of the large-scale ocean circulation. Topics include the dynamics of western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream in the…
Switching and Control -- From Feedback Control to Complexity Management: A Personal Perspective -- Convex Cones, Lyapunov Functions, and the Stability of Switched Linear Systems -- Survey of Explicit Approaches to Constrained Optimal Control -- Gaussian Processes -- Analysis of Some Methods for Reduced Rank Gaussian Process Regression -- Filtered Gaussian Processes for Learning with Large Data-…
Mathematical Methods -- Passive Scalar Diffusion as a Damped Wave -- Extremalizing Vector Fields as Guides Toward Understanding Properties of Turbulence -- Low-Wavenumber Forcing and Turbulent Energy Dissipation -- New Potential Symmetries for a Generalised Inhomogeneus Nonlinear Diffusion Equation -- DNS and New Scaling Laws of ZPG Turbulent Boundary Layer Flow -- Linear Instability of a Slowl…
Learning in Computational and Laboratory Experiments -- The Implementation of the Turing Tournament: A Report -- Expectations Structure in Asset Pricing Experiments -- Learning in a “Basket of Crabs”: An Agent-Based Computational Model of Repeated Conservation Auctions -- On the Benefit of Additional Information in Markets with Heterogeneously Informed Agents — an Experimental Study -- Ga…
Mathematical Preliminaries -- Vector Calculus -- Partial Differential Equations -- Theory of Generalized Convexity -- Calculus of Variations and the Optimal Control -- Miscellaneous Techniques -- Economics of Multidimensional Screening -- The Unidimensional Screening Model -- The Multidimensional Screening Model -- Beyond the Quasilinear Case -- Existence, Uniqueness, and Continuity of the Solu…