The subject of the book is the "know-how" of applied mathematical modelling: how to construct specific models and adjust them to a new engineering environment or more precise realistic assumptions; how to analyze models for the purpose of investigating real life phenomena; and how the models can extend our knowledge about a specific engineering process.
Two major sources of the book are the stock of classic models and the authors' wide experience in the field. The book provides a theoretical background to guide the development of practical models and their investigation. It considers general modelling techniques, explains basic underlying physical laws and shows how to transform them into a set of mathematical equations. The emphasis is placed on common features of the modelling process in various applications as well as on complications and generalizations of models.
The book covers a variety of applications: mechanical, acoustical, physical and electrical, water transportation and contamination processes; bioengineering and population control; production systems and technical equipment renovation. Mathematical tools include partial and ordinary differential equations, difference and integral equations, the calculus of variations, optimal control, bifurcation methods, and related subjects.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781402074844
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-7484-4
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2003
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2003
- Serie: Applied Optimization
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1360 g
- Seiten: 286
- Format (B x H): 155 x 235 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
