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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
568 kr
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Traditional mathematics often plays a vital role in the solution of industrial problems. This volume describes industrial problems presented at a graduate-level modeling workshop designed to improve the graduate students’ vision about the type of mathematics and science they should pursue whether they aspire to academic or nonacademic postgraduate careers. The problems represent a broad spectrum of mathematical topics and applications including statistics, signal processing, fluid dynamics, ODE, and PDE, optimization, and numerical analysis. This volume can be used as a reference for mathematical modeling, signal processing, PDE, and applied control courses.Industry representatives presented the following topics for graduate students to investigate during the ten-day workshop: Curvature Modeling in THUNDER Actuators; Maximizing Deflection While Minimizing Power Consumption in a Piezoelectric Actuator Design; Mathematical Modeling of High Power Amplifier (HPA) and HPA Linearization Through a Predistorter; Time Dependent Consolidation of Fine Powders; High Precision, High Accuracy Control of Fluid Microdispenser Under Variable Load; and Mass Transport and Surface Reaction of Immunoassay.The workshop, which was sponsored by the Center for Research and Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University, attracted a large number of students representing graduate programs from throughout the United States.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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This book is composed of eleven chapters, written by experts in their respective fields, on topics ranging from control of the Navier-Stokes equations to nondestructive evaluation – all of which are modeled by distributed parameters systems. Written by the plenary speakers for the Conference on Future Directions in Distributed Parameter Systems (October 2000), the volume addresses the state of the art, open questions, and important research directions in applications modeled by partial differential equations and delay systems, with the ultimate goal of passing along these perspectives to researchers in the field.This book compiles a broad range of material, much of which is available only in research journals. Its goal is to disseminate to the research community the perspectives and challenges posed for a variety of current research applications. Topics include electromagnetic theory for dielectric and conductive materials, flow control, cardiovascular and respiratory models, homogenization and systems theory, optimal and geometric control, reduced-order models for large-scale systems, smart materials, and nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring for systems, including nuclear power plants. A unifying theme throughout the book focuses on the necessity of considering model development, numerical approximation, parameter estimation through inverse problem techniques, and control design in concert to achieve the stringent design criteria dictated by present applications.Research Directions in Distributed Parameter Systems is intended for graduate students, academic and industrial research scientists, and program managers from funding agencies supporting research focused on distributed parameter systems.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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Smart Material Systems describes several novel applications currently under investigation that exploit the unique actuator and sensor capabilities of smart material compounds. In addition to present and projected applications, this book provides comprehensive coverage of both linear and nonlinear modeling techniques necessary to characterize materials in a manner that facilitates transducer design and control development. The author focuses on ferroelectric, magnetic, and shape memory compounds and also addresses applications exploiting amorphous and ionic polymers, magnetorheological compounds, and fiber optic sensors.Three classes of nonlinear models are discussed, all of which provide unified characterization frameworks for the broad class of combined compounds. An extensive discussion of structural models based on linear and nonlinear constitutive models is included, as is a chapter on numerical techniques for approximating solutions to the structural systems. The author also provides a synergistic treatment of material characterization, including significant discussion of the physics underlying nonlinear behavior, the development of nonlinear constitutive relations, the development of system models based on these constitutive relations, and the formulation of numerical techniques for approximating solutions to the resulting system models. To aid the understanding of both mathematical and physical terminology, an extensive glossary of terms is provided in an appendix. Furthermore, MATLAB software for representative models is provided at an accompanying website.By providing a unified treatment of both linear and nonlinear characterization frameworks, Smart Material Systems encompasses both low to moderate drive levels, which constitute the primary focus of most present texts, and the high drive regimes dictated by present and future applications. This will significantly enhance the design of transducers and control systems which exploit the unique actuator and sensor capabilities provided by smart material compounds.