Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic bearings guide rotating machines like turbines under severe conditions. This book provides a numerical analysis of how textured surfaces improve their hydrodynamic, tribological, and structural performance under these demanding operating parameters.
This book covers the measurement of optoelectronic components, focusing on the implementation of static electrical and optical characterization. It links these measurements to solid state physics and presents different LED technologies through detailed experimental analyses.
A Concise Course of Mathematics with Applications
This book covers a vast range of mathematics, from logic, number theory, and algebra to calculus, topology, and geometry. It includes complex analysis, differential equations, and matrices, with applications in the natural and social sciences, from physics to economics.
Drawing on 31 years of experience, this book guides readers in designing safe and cost-effective structures. It includes numerical examples in both SI and US units for components like beams, columns, slabs, and shear walls, plus considerations for dynamic loads like earthquakes.
This book is an introduction to computational methods in physics. It details how to make a physical problem computable, using numerous examples and solved problems from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, and directly teaches the reader how to implement these techniques.
An accessible guide to the basic concepts of atomic & molecular quantum structure and how we probe it using light. These ideas underpin modern science. Ideal for undergraduates, this book includes in-chapter examples, questions, workbooks, and accompanying online videos.
Fracture at weak interfaces is a key vulnerability in layered materials and thin films. This book gathers significant research advancements to provide theoretical tools and experimental applications for researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students.
Large Dam and River Dynamics
This book explores fluvial geomorphology and its role in floodplain management. It details quantitative and statistical techniques for analyzing river dynamics and highlights applications in managing land and water resources. For researchers, planners, and policy makers.
The dominant theory of plate tectonics fails to fully explain continental deformation. This book explores intracontinental tectonics, classifying orogeny and proposing that global tectonics is a combination of transcontinental, plate, and intracontinental tectonics.
Next Generation Healthcare
This book explores how deep learning AI can solve healthcare’s challenges with fragmented data and security. It covers diverse applications from disease detection to EHR management and telemedicine, offering cutting-edge insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
This text covers the fundamentals of physical metallurgy, emphasizing structure-property correlation. What is unique is its introduction of new concepts on heat treating steels—missing from existing books—providing new scope for academic research and industrial implementation.
An Introduction to Viticulture, Winemaking and Wine
This book describes the science of growing grapevines and transforming them into the world’s many wine styles. It covers everything from harvesting to how to taste, buy, store, and sell wine. Intended for novice growers, winemakers, sommeliers, and students.
This book presents 10 actions for practical results in seismology. Through statistical analysis, we can estimate the probability of the next earthquake and identify foreshocks. From seismic waves, we can deduce an earthquake’s energy, magnitude, and the fault’s orientation.
This guide to forecasting adverse weather in the tropics combines theoretical foundations with practical methods for short-range forecasting in Northeast Brazil. It uses synoptic analysis, satellite data, and numerical models, making it essential for students and professionals.
Despite a demand for public spaces in Nairobi’s Central Business District, existing ones are under-utilized. This book analyzes their spatial evolution and sustainability, establishing factors for creating better-utilized spaces suitable for commerce, transit, and recreation.
For students and specialists in nonlinear dynamics, this book develops original methods to study dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamic structures in lattices of coupled rotators, using methods from bifurcation theory and qualitative numerical methods.
A hands-on guide to solving industrially relevant problems. Master basic and advanced calculations for key chemical industry processes. Features real-life exercises with answers, covering complex installations with recycle-loops and cascades of reactors.
This literary ‘Swiss army knife’ explains the origins and uses of limestones. Discover how they form rocks, create iconic karst scenery, and provide reservoirs for ~50% of the world’s oil and gas, while also posing unique hydrogeological and foundation problems.
Protected areas are our most effective tool for conserving biodiversity, but their success hinges on effective management. This book assesses national and natural parks, comparing data from 2005, 2009, and 2022 to offer crucial suggestions for our protected area systems.
This book contains recent and important results on the deep study of the universe, with great impact on space-time research and the creation of future technologies. It will appeal to mathematicians, scientists, cosmologists, researchers, and postgraduate students.
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