This text is aimed at students beginning an undergraduate course in any of the engineering branches where an understanding of engineering mechanics is an essential element. The author's approach is to look at the subject in its entirety, treating statics and dynamics as fully integrated, with statics seen as a special subset of dynamics where Newton's equations of motion are set equal to zero due to equilibrium considerations. A final chapter introduces the theory of vibrations. A large number of worked examples, with discussions and solutions, are included.
MOKA, a methodology and a set of software tools oriented to knowledge-based engineering applications, was created under the auspices of a consortium of European academic and corporate bodies to fill the need for a common way of collecting, structuring, and formalizing the engineering knowledge associated with designs. It is intended as a practical tool to help those involved with building systems that represent knowledge, rather than a set of academic principles. This ring-bound volume is a comprehensive user's guide to the methodology, written in an accessible style with an easily navigable structure, and it includes summary margin notes, examples and case studies, numerous diagrams, and a guide to further reading.
The 11 chapters that make up this book, each introducing a different branch of the subject, are intended to provide students with an idea of which topics are currently being researched in fluid mechanics and how to make a choice among them. Though not exhaustive, the coverage is broad: Thin-film flows, Saffman-Taylor fingering, flows in arteries and veins, convective and absolute instabilities, turbulence, natural convection, magnetohydrodynamics, solidification, geological fluid mechanics, oceanography, and atmospheric dynamics are introduced and reviewed. The book may also be of interest to specialists seeking an introduction to other areas of the field.
Designed as a practical guide to building Kalman filters, this text applies the filtering equations to real-life problems, with numerous examples showing the many ways in which Kalman filters can be designed. Fortran, Matlab, and True Basic code accompany all of the examples. Mistakes are sometimes introduced intentionally to show the reader what happens when the filter is not working properly. Since real problems are seldom presented in the form of differential equations and usually don't have unique solutions, the authors illustrate several different filtering approaches for tackling a problem. Software is included on a CD-ROM.
The fundamental concepts of inverse heat transfer problems are introduced, with a focus on applications and solving problems without going through a detailed mathematical proof. The book presents in detail the basic steps of four techniques of inverse heat transfer protocol, as a parameter estimation approach and as a function estimation approach. These techniques are then applied to the solution of problems of practical engineering interest involving conduction, convection, and radiation. The text also introduces a formulation based on generalized coordinates for the solution of inverse heat conduction problems in two-dimensional regions.
The author begins with a review of computation, and then deals with a range of key concepts, including sets, fields, matrix theory, and vector spaces. He goes on to cover more advanced subjects, such as linear mappings, group theory, and special functions. The treatment concentrates exclusively on what the author regards as the most important topics that enable the working physical scientist or engineer to make intelligent use of the latest computational and analytical methods. The book also contains over 400 homework problems.
This book is one of a series by the same author dealing with physicochemical properties of binary and multicomponent electrolyte solutions. In this handbook, original methods are given for calculating the physicochemical properties of multicomponent solutions with minimal errors. They allow the calculation of volumetric properties, equilibria in solutions, phase equilibria, thermal properties, solution properties, and transport phenomena. All the calculation methods were tested during the mathematical modeling of various technological processes.
This collaborative effort by more than 60 ventilation experts in 18 countries seeks to provide an overview of current scientific information available on the subject of industrial ventilation and the more general area of industrial air technology, including new fundamental research and design equations. The book discusses the design of air technology systems for the control of contaminants in industrial workplaces, such as manufacturing plants, and addresses the scien-tific approach to improving air quality inside the plant and reducing emissions to the outside environment. Extensive sections on design are included, with modeling techniques.
The subject is reviewed in great detail, along with other aspects of print reading, using many illustrations and examples. The book includes industry standards, practices, and copies of industrial prints and covers both blueprint reading theory and industry applications. Each chapter covers a single subject and contains an introduction, a detailed review of the subject, illustrations, review questions, and worksheets with short and specific questions. The third edition has been expanded to include many new and revised worksheets designed to facilitate the reader's ability to form a mental picture from a drawing.
Intended to bridge the gap between a theoretical study of kinematics and its application to practical mechanisms, this book applies kinematic theories to real-world machines. Case studies and illustrations depict mechanisms used on industrial equipment. In order to introduce students to present-day methods, suggestions are included for implementing the graphical techniques on computer-aided design systems and for using calculators, spreadsheets, math software, and similar tools for analytical solution procedures.
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