Dynamik & statik

This is a clear introduction to chaotic phenomena for undergraduate students in science, engineering, and mathematics. Richly illustrated throughout, it uses examples from classical mechanics. Important relations are also given in simple mathemati...

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This book focuses on computational techniques for high-speed gas flows, especially gas flows containing shocks and other steep gradients. It reviews gasdynamics and computational techniques and then discusses the basic principles of computational ...

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Provided the first self-contained comprehensive exposition of the theory of dynamical systems as a core mathematical discipline closely intertwined with all main areas of mathematics. The authors introduce and rigorously develop the theory while p...

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This introduction for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students of mathematics, physics, and engineering combines mathematical rigour with copious examples of important applications, covering topics ranging from Newtonian mechanics to c...

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This is a graduate text for engineering, applied mathematics and physics students on turbulent flows, an important topic in fluid dynamics. It is up-to-date, comprehensive, designed for teaching and is based on a course taught by the author at Cor...

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This book focuses on computational techniques for high-speed gas flows, especially gas flows containing shocks and other steep gradients. It reviews gasdynamics and computational techniques and then discusses the basic principles of computational ...

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With many worked examples and over 200 homework exercises, this comprehensive textbook, first published in 1998, covers all the standard material in a graduate course on classical dynamics, plus advanced topics such as the relativistic Kepler prob...

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This book describes research and applications in interfacial fluid dynamics. It is organized around five topics - Benard and thermocapillary instabilities, shear and pressure induced instabilities, waves and dispersions, multiphase systems, and co...

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First published in 1967, Professor Batchelor's classic text on fluid dynamics is still one of the foremost texts in the subject. The careful presentation of the underlying theories of fluids is still timely and applicable. This re-issue should ens...

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This 2000 book provides a careful and critical development of the equations which describe the motion of fluid-particle mixtures.

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The subject of multiphase flows encompasses a vast field whose broad spectrum presents a problem for the experimental and analytical methodologies that might be appropriate for the reader's interests. This book presents a unified approach to the f...

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This work contains fundamental solutions for classical, canonical, problems in elastodynamics using common format and notation. These formulas describe the displacements and stresses elicited by dynamic sources in solid elastic media. The formulas...

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Intended for undergraduates who want a systematic and rigorous approach to particle and rigid body dynamics, Rao's highly rigorous 2006 presentation of concepts illuminates the connection between theory and practice. The work features a great rang...

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This book presents the nonlinear theory of continuum mechanics and demonstrates its use in developing nonlinear computer formulations for large displacement dynamic analysis. Basic concepts used in continuum mechanics are presented and used to dev...

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Although now replaced by more modern theories, classical mechanics remains a core foundational element of physical theory. From its inception, the theory of dynamics has been riddled with conceptual issues and differing philosophical interpretatio...

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The discovery of chaotic motion in low-dimensional systems raised the question: What kind of thermodynamics describes a system if it is neither ergodic nor Hamiltonian or possesses a finite number of degrees of freedom? This Monographs is the firs...

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Fluid mechanics is one of the greatest accomplishments of classical physics. The Navier-Stokes equations, first derived in the eighteenth century, serve as an accurate mathematical model with which to describe the flow of a broad class of real flu...

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Statistical mechanics is one of the most exciting areas of physics today, and it also has applications to subjects as diverse as economics, social behavior, algorithmic theory, and evolutionary biology. Statistical Mechanics in a Nutshell offers t...

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A graduate-level text that examines the semiclassical approach to quantum mechanics Physical systems have been traditionally described in terms of either classical or quantum mechanics. But in recent years, semiclassical methods have developed rap...

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John Mather's seminal works in Hamiltonian dynamics represent some of the most important contributions to our understanding of the complex balance between stable and unstable motions in classical mechanics. His novel approach--known as Aubry-Mathe...

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William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of areas of mathematics, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichmüller theo...

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William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of areas of mathematics, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichmüller theo...

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A lavishly illustrated book that explores the language of curves that spans the human body, science, engineering, and artCurves are seductive. These smooth, organic lines and surfaces-like those of the human body-appeal to us in an instinctive, vi...

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William Thurston (1946-2012) was one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century. He was a visionary whose extraordinary ideas revolutionized a broad range of areas of mathematics, from foliations, contact structures, and Teichmuller theo...

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The first complete proof of Arnold diffusion-one of the most important problems in dynamical systems and mathematical physics Arnold diffusion, which concerns the appearance of chaos in classical mechanics, is one of the most important problems in...

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The first complete proof of Arnold diffusion-one of the most important problems in dynamical systems and mathematical physics Arnold diffusion, which concerns the appearance of chaos in classical mechanics, is one of the most important problems in...

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The first complete proof of Arnold diffusion-one of the most important problems in dynamical systems and mathematical physicsArnold diffusion, which concerns the appearance of chaos in classical mechanics, is one of the most important problems in ...

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