Robust Control Design with MATLAB®

(Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)

By Da-W Gu, P. Hr. Petkov, M. M. Konstantinov
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 389, Date: 2005-08-23
ISBN-10 : 1852339837, PDF 5 Mb

Robustness is often of crucial importance in control system design. Real engineering systems are vulnerable to external disturbance and measurement noise and there are always discrepancies between mathematical models used for design and the actual system in practice.

Robust Control Design with MATLAB® helps you learn how to use well-developed advanced robust control design methods in practical cases. To this end, several realistic control design examples ranging from teaching-laboratory experiments, such as a mass–damper–spring assembly, to complex systems like a flexible link manipulator are given detailed presentation. All the design exercises are conducted using MATLAB® Robust Control Toolbox, Control System Toolbox and Simulink®.

By sharing their experiences in industrial cases with minimum recourse to complicated theories and formulae, the authors convey essential ideas and useful insights into robust industrial control systems design using major H-infinity optimization and related methods allowing you quickly to move on with your own challenges.

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Hands-on, tutorial presentation giving you the opportunity to repeat the designs presented and easily to modify them for your own programs.
An abundance of examples illustrating the most important steps in robust design.

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The Civil Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition

By: Wai-Fah Chen
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First published in 1995, the award-winning Civil Engineering Handbook soon became known as the field's definitive reference. To retain its standing as a complete, authoritative resource, the editors have incorporated into this edition the many changes in techniques, tools, and materials that over the last seven years have found their way into civil engineering research and practice.

The Civil Engineering Handbook, Second Edition is more comprehensive than ever. You'll find new, updated, and expanded coverage in every section. In fact, more than 1/3 of the handbook is new or substantially revised. In particular you'll find increased focus on computing reflecting the rapid advances in computer technology that has revolutionized many aspects of civil engineering.

You'll use it as a survey of the field, you'll use it to explore a particular subject, but most of all you'll use The Civil Engineering Handbook to answer the problems, questions, and conundrums you encounter in practice.

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Encyclopedia of Sewing Machine Techniques

By Nancy Bednar, Joann Pugh-Gannon
Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
Pages: 336, Date: 1999-12
ISBN-10 : 080696393X, 47.6 MB, Scanned PDF

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All in color! Beading, fringing, pintucks, and puffing--if the sewing machine can do it, then the technique is here! Want instructions for those indispensible basics? You'll find advice on a variety of ways to do bias binding; buttonholes; edge finishes; gathering; hem finishes (seven of them, from corded to shadow); mitering corners; seam finishes; topstiching; and zippers.

Or make any item eye-catching with an array of creative touches. Add appliques with a basic satin stitch, or try mola, madeira or reverse applique.

Try charted needlework, criss-cross chain stitching, eyelet embroidery, lacework, and an heirloom sewing sampler. For every technique, you'll get machine set ups, and guidance on fabrics, stitching, needles, threads, tension, and the presser foot. Trim size: 8 1/2 x 10.

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MPLS-Enabled Applications: Emerging Developments and New Technologies

  (Wiley Series on Communications Networking & Distributed Systems)

By Ina Minei, Julian Lucek
Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 526, Date: 2008-06-03
ISBN-10 : 0470986441

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“Here at last is a single, all-encompassing resource where the myriad applications sharpen into a comprehensible text.” Kireeti Kompella, Juniper Fellow, Juniper Networks.
The authoritative guide to MPLS, now in its second edition, fully updated with brand new material!

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is now considered the networking technology for carrying all types of network traffic, including voice telephony, real-time video, and data traffic. In MPLS-Enabled Applications, the Second Edition, the authors methodically show how MPLS holds the key to network convergence by allowing operators to offer more services over a single physical infrastructure. The Second Edition contains more than 150 illustrations, new chapters, and more coverage, guiding the reader from the basics of the technology, including signaling protocols, traffic engineering and fast reroute, though all its major applications.

MPLS Enabled-Applications, Second Edition, contains comprehensive up-to-date coverage of:

* the current status and the future potential of all major MPLS applications, including L3VPNs (Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks), L2VPNs (Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks), pseudowires and VPLS . (Virtual Private LAN Service).
* extensive discussion of multicast support over MPLS, including a new chapter dedicated to multicast in VPNs, explaining both the PIM/GRE (Protocol Independent Multicast / Generic Routing Encapsulation) and the next generation BGP/MPLS solutions, new material on support of multicast in VPLS, a much-expanded chapter on MPLS multicast and a section perations and management (OAM) tools for point-to-multipoint LSPs.
* a new chapter on MPLS in access networks, as well as coverage of the use of MPLS in mobile and data communication networks.
* interoperation of LDP(Label Distribution Protocol) and BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) based VPLS.
* comprehensive coverage of the base technology, as well as the latest IETF drafts

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Statistical Mechanics - 6 Books

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Statistical Mechanics: From First Principles to Macroscopic Phenomena, ISBN: 052182575X
Taking a 'reductionist' view of statistical mechanics, this book implicitly assumes that the physics of complex systems as observed is connected to fundamental laws represented at the molecular level by Newtonian or quantum mechanics. Written for one year graduate course in statistical mechanics for physicists and chemists, problems are included.

Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations ISBN: 0198515359
This book discusses the computational approach in modern statistical physics in a clear and accessible way and demonstrates its close relation to other approaches in theoretical physics. Individual chapters focus on subjects as diverse as the hard sphere liquid, classical spin models, single quantum particles and Bose-Einstein condensation. Contained within the chapters are in-depth discussions of algorithms, ranging from basic enumeration methods to modern Monte Carlo techniques. The emphasis is on orientation, with discussion of implementation details kept to a minimum.

Statistical Mechanics ISBN: 0471815187
Unlike most other texts on the subject, this clear, concise introduction to the theory of microscopic bodies treats the modern theory of critical phenomena. Provides up-to-date coverage of recent major advances, including a self-contained description of thermodynamics and the classical kinetic theory of gases, interesting applications such as superfluids and the quantum Hall effect, several current research applications, The last three chapters are devoted to the Landau-Wilson approach to critical phenomena. Many new problems and illustrations have been added to this edition.

Elements of Statistical Mechanics ISBN: 0750623470
The first six chapters of the book provide a thorough introduction to the basic methods of statistical mechanics and indeed the first four may be used as an introductory course in themselves. The last three chapters offer more detail on the equation of state, with special emphasis on the van der Waals gas; the second-quantisation approach to many-body systems, with an examination of two-time temperature-dependent Green functions; phase transitions, including various approximation methods for treating the Ising model, a brief discussion of the exact solution of the two-dimensional square Ising model, and short introductions to renormalisation group methods and the Yang and Lee theory of phase transitions.

Statistical Mechanics (Advanced Texts in Physics) ISBN: 3540323430
The completely revised new edition of the classical book on Statistical Mechanics covers the basic concepts of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics. In addition to a deductive approach to equilibrium statistics and thermodynamics based on a single hypothesis - the form of the microcanonical density matrix - this book treats the most important elements of non-equilibrium phenomena.

Statistical Mechanics Made Simple: A Guide for Students and Researchers ISBN: 9812381651
This book is an elaboration of the author's lecture notes in a graduate course in statistical physics and thermodynamics, augmented by some material suitable for self-teaching as well as for undergraduate study. The first 4 or 5 chapters are suitable for an undergraduate course for engineers and physicists in Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics and include detailed study of the various ensembles and their connections to applied thermodynamics. The Debye law of specific heats and reasons for deviations from the Debye formulas are covered, as are the Einstein theories of Brownian motion, black-body radiation and specific heat of solids. Van der Waals gases and the reason for the apparent failure of his Law of Corresponding States are discussed.

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Development and Application of the Finite Element Method based on MATLAB

By Herbert Baaser
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 64, Date: May 2010
ISBN-10 : 3642131522 ,PDF (in RAR archive) Size 925 KB

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The intention of this booklet is a brief but general introduction into the treatment of the Finite Element Method (FEM). The FEM has become the leading method in computer–oriented mechanics, so that many scientific branches have grown up besides over the last decades. Nevertheless, the FEM today is a question of economy.

On the one hand its industrial application is forced to reduce product development costs and time, on the other hand a large number of commercial FEM codes and a still growing number of software for effective pre– and postprocessors are available in the meantime.

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Image Fusion: Theories, Techniques and Applications

By H.B. Mitchell
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2010-02-12, ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3642112153
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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the theories, techniques and applications of image fusion. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science. It should also be useful to practicing engineers who wish to learn the concepts of image fusion and use them in real-life applications.

The book is intended to be self-contained. No previous knowledge of image fusion is assumed, although some familiarity with elementary image processing and the basic tools of linear algebra is recommended.

The book may also be used as a supplementary text for a course on advanced image processing.

Apart from two preliminary chapters, the book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with the conceptual theories and ideas which underlie image fusion.

Particular emphasis is given to the concept of a common representational framework and includes detailed discussions on the techniques of image registration, radiometric calibration and semantic equivalence.

Part II deals with a wide range of techniques and algorithms which are in common use in image fusion. Among the topics considered are: sub-space transformations, multi-resolution analysis, wavelets, ensemble learning, bagging, boosting, color spaces, image thresholding, Markov random fields, image similarity measures and the expectation-maximization algorithm.

Together Parts I and II form an integrated and comprehensive overview of image fusion. Part III deals with applications.

In it several real-life examples of image fusion are examined in detail, including panchromatic sharpening, ensemble color image segmentation and the Simultaneous Truth and Performance algorithm of Warfield et al.

The book is accompanied by a webpage from which supplementary material may be obtained. This includes support for course instructors and links to relevant matlab code.

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Cambridge English for Engineering Student's Book with Audio CDs

By Mark Ibbotson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 112, Publication Date: 2008-12-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521715180

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A short self-study or classroom course (40-60 hours) for engineers who need to use English in the workplace. Cambridge English for Engineering develops the communication skills and specialist English language knowledge of engineering professionals, enabling them to communicate more confidently and effectively with colleagues and customers.

The ten standalone units cover topics common to all kinds of engineering - including civil, electrical and mechanical - such as procedures and precautions; monitoring and control; and engineering design.

Authentic activities - from describing technical problems and suggesting solutions to working with drawings - make the course relevant and motivating.

The course requires no specialist knowledge on the part of the teacher and comprehensive teacher's notes are available online.

It is also ideal for self-study.Cambridge English for... is a new series of short courses for different areas of English for Specific Purposes.

Written for professionals by professionals they combine the best in ELT methodology with real professional practice. Other titles in the series include Job-hunting, the Media and Nursing.

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Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Volume 2: Second Edition, Biomedical Engineering Applications

By Myer Kutz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Pages: 816, Date: 2009-06-22
ISBN-10 : 0071498397 PDF 12 mb

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A State-of-the-Art Guide to Biomedical Engineering and Design Fundamentals and Applications
The two-volume Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Second Edition, offers unsurpassed coverage of the entire biomedical engineering field, including fundamental concepts, design and development processes, and applications. This landmark work contains contributions on a wide range of topics from nearly 80 leading experts at universities, medical centers, and commercial and law firms.

Volume 2 provides timely information on breakthrough developments in medical device design, diagnostic equipment design, surgery, rehabilitation engineering, prosthetics design, and clinical engineering. Filled with more than 400 detailed illustrations, this definitive volume examines cutting-edge design and development methods for innovative devices, techniques, and treatments.

Volume 2 covers:

*Medical Product Design
* FDA Medical Device Requirements
* Cardiovascular Devices
* Design of Respiratory Devices
* Design of Artificial Kidneys
* Design of Controlled-Release Drug Delivery Systems
* Sterile Medical Device Package Development
* Design of Magnetic Resonance Systems
* Instrumentation Design for Ultrasonic Imaging
* The Principles of X-Ray Computed Tomography
* Nuclear Medicine
Imaging Instrumentation
* Breast Imaging Systems
* Surgical Simulation Technologies
* Computer-Integrated Surgery and Medical Robotics
* Technology and Disabilities
* Applied Universal Design
* Design of Artificial Arms and Hands for Prosthetic Applications
* Design of Artificial Limbs for Lower Extremity Amputees
* Wear of Total Knee and Hip Joint Replacements
* Home Modification Design
* Intelligent Assistive Technology
* Rehabilitators
* Risk Management in Healthcare
* Technology Planning for Healthcare Institutions
* Healthcare Facilities Planning
* Healthcare Systems Engineering
* Enclosed Habitat Life Support

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Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Volume 1: Second Edition, Biomedical Engineering Fundamentals

By Myer Kutz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Pages: 688, Date: 2009-06-22
ISBN-10 : 0071498389, PDF 8.7 mb

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A State-of-the-Art Guide to Biomedical Engineering and Design Fundamentals and Applications
The two-volume Biomedical Engineering and Design Handbook, Second Edition offers unsurpassed coverage of the entire biomedical engineering field, including fundamental concepts, design and development processes, and applications. This landmark work contains contributions on a wide range of topics from nearly 80 leading experts at universities, medical centers, and commercial and law firms.

Volume 1 focuses on the basics of biomedical engineering, including biomedical systems analysis, biomechanics of the human body, biomaterials, and bioelectronics. Filled with more than 500 detailed illustrations, this superb volume provides the foundational knowledge required to understand the design and development of innovative devices, techniques, and treatments.

Volume 1 covers:

*Modeling and Simulation of Biomedical Systems
* Bioheat Transfer
* Physical and Flow Properties of Blood
* Respiratory Mechanics and Gas Exchange
* Biomechanics of the Respiratory Muscles
* Biomechanics of Human Movement
* Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System
* Biodynamics
* Bone Mechanics
* Finite Element Analysis
* Vibration, Mechanical Shock, and Impact
* Electromyography
* Biopolymers
* Biomedical Composites
* Bioceramics
* Cardiovascular Biomaterials
* Dental Materials
* Orthopaedic Biomaterials
* Biomaterials to Promote Tissue Regeneration
* Bioelectricity
* Biomedical Signal Analysis
* Biomedical Signal Processing
* Intelligent Systems and Bioengineering
* BioMEMS

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Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

Author : Christopher G. Morris
Pages: 2432, Date: 1992-01-15, ISBN-10 : 0122004000
The book is in chm format.Part 1: 50.0; Part 2: 31.2 MB

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Dictionary of Science and Technology is the most comprehensive, authoritative dictionary of science available. Covering 124 fields of science, the Dictionary will make a handsome addition to your reference collection.

Key Features
* Approximately 124,000 fully defined entries, not counting abbreviations--the largest range of vocabulary ever compiled in a science dictionary
* Compete coverage of 124 fields of science and technology, including Computer Science, biotechnology, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Behavior, Astronomy, Geology, and more
* "Windows," boxed essays for each of the 124 fields, offering a brief definition of each area—its meaning, history, and implications—by such prestigious scientists as Michael DeBakey, Stephen Jay Gould, Linus Pauling, Roger Revelle, and Jonas Salk
* Completely up-to-date definitions in such dynamic fields as Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Biotechnology
* Extensive cross-references throughout to link overlapping or equivalent entries and guide readers to the preferred terms
* More medical terms overall than any other general scientific dictionary now available
* More coverage of subfields of medicine, including Oncology, Radiology, Hematology, Cardiology, and Toxicology
* Pronunciation guides for difficult or phonetically irregular terms
* Etymologies giving the origin of important scientific terms
* Definitions that are supplemented by examples of current usage
* Abbreviations and proper names defined in the body of the text, rather than in an appendix, for easier reference
* A complete appendix of frequently consulted scientific data, including standard weights and measures and the periodic table
* A Chronology of Science listing all important milestones in the history of science from 1400 to the present
* Nearly 2,000 detailed illustrations and technical photographs, including 24 pages of color plates
* Definitions reviewed for accuracy by a panel of eminent scientist
* A single-volume, 8 ½" x 11", double-column format with boldfaced entries that offer the ready easy access to definitions
* Lightweight, acid-free paper

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Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers: Using Mathematica to do Science

By Richard Gass
Publisher: Prentice-Hall,
Pages: 498, Date: 1997-08-20,
ISBN-10 : 0132276127

This book was designed to show scientists and engineers how to use Mathematica to solve scientifically interesting problems in a variety of disciplines. The book covers all the major features of Mathematica—e.g. graphics programming, writing packages, and the new features in Mathematica 3.0.

Exceptionally practical in approach, it draws application from "real-life" situations in physics, mathematics, and engineering.

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Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering

By: David Ruppert
Publisher: Springer; 1st Edition. edition
638 pages, Date : December 1, 2010
ISBN-10: 1441977864, Rar PDF 11.397 MB

Financial engineers have access to enormous quantities of data but need powerful methods for extracting quantitative information, particularly about volatility and risks. Key features of this textbook are: illustration of concepts with financial markets and economic data, R Labs with real-data exercises, and integration of graphical and analytic methods for modeling and diagnosing modeling errors.

Despite some overlap with the author's undergraduate textbook Statistics and Finance: An Introduction, this book differs from that earlier volume in several important aspects: it is graduate-level; computations and graphics are done in R; and many advanced topics are covered, for example, multivariate distributions, copulas, Bayesian computations, VaR and expected shortfall, and cointegration.

The prerequisites are basic statistics and probability, matrices and linear algebra, and calculus. Some exposure to finance is helpful.

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Engineering Differential Equations: Theory and Applications

By Bill GoodwinePublisher: Springer
Pages: 748, Date: 2010-12-01
ISBN-10 : 1441979182, PDF ~5.90 MiB

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This book is a comprehensive treatment of engineering undergraduate differential equations as well as linear vibrations and feedback control. While this material has traditionally been separated into different courses in undergraduate engineering curricula. This text provides a streamlined and efficient treatment of material normally covered in three courses.

Ultimately, engineering students study mathematics in order to be able to solve problems within the engineering realm. Engineering Differential Equations: Theory and Applications guides students to approach the mathematical theory with much greater interest and enthusiasm by teaching the theory together with applications. Additionally, it includes an abundance of detailed examples. Appendices include numerous C and FORTRAN example programs.

This book is intended for engineering undergraduate students, particularly aerospace and mechanical engineers and students in other disciplines concerned with mechanical systems analysis and control. Prerequisites include basic and advanced calculus with an introduction to linear algebra.

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Wind Power Systems: Applications of Computational Intelligence (Green Energy and Technology)

By Lingfeng Wang, Chanan Singh, Andrew Kusiak
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 430, Date: 2010-06-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3642132499, PDF 6.52 MB

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Renewable energy sources such as wind power have attracted much attention because they are environmentally friendly, do not produce carbon dioxide and other emitants, and can enhance a nation’s energy security. For example, recently more significant amounts of wind power are being integrated into conventional power grids.

Therefore, it is necessary to address various important and challenging issues related to wind power systems, which are significantly different from the traditional generation systems. This book is a resource for engineers, practitioners, and decision-makers interested in studying or using the power of computational intelligence based algorithms in handling various important problems in wind power systems at the levels of power generation, transmission, and distribution.

Researchers have been developing biologically-inspired algorithms in a wide variety of complex large-scale engineering domains. Distinguished from the traditional analytical methods, the new methods usually accomplish the task through their computationally efficient mechanisms. Computational intelligence methods such as evolutionary computation, neural networks, and fuzzy systems have attracted much attention in electric power systems. Meanwhile, modern electric power systems are becoming more and more complex in order to meet the growing electricity market. In particular, the grid complexity is continuously enhanced by the integration of intermittent wind power as well as the current restructuring efforts in electricity industry. Quite often, the traditional analytical methods become less efficient or even unable to handle this increased complexity. As a result, it is natural to apply computational intelligence as a powerful tool to deal with various important and pressing problems in the current wind power systems. This book presents the state-of-the-art development in the field of computational intelligence applied to wind power systems by reviewing the most up-to-date work and representative practical problems collecting contributions from leading experts in electrical engineering, system engineering, and other disciplines.

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Variational and Level Set Methods in Image Segmentation (Springer Topics in Signal Processing)

By Amar Mitiche, Ismail Ben Ayed
Publisher: Springer
Pages: 250, Date: 2010-10-26
ISBN-10 : 3642153518, PDF 7.68 MB

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Image segmentation consists of dividing an image domain into disjoint regions according to a characterization of the image within or in-between the regions. Therefore, segmenting an image is to divide its domain into relevant components. The efficient solution of the key problems in image segmentation promises to enable a rich array of useful applications.

The current major application areas include robotics, medical image analysis, remote sensing, scene understanding, and image database retrieval. The subject of this book is image segmentation by variational methods with a focus on formulations which use closed regular plane curves to define the segmentation regions and on a level set implementation of the corresponding active curve evolution algorithms. Each method is developed from an objective functional which embeds constraints on both the image domain partition of the segmentation and the image data within or in-between the partition regions. The necessary conditions to optimize the objective functional are then derived and solved numerically.

The book covers, within the active curve and level set formalism, the basic two-region segmentation methods, multiregion extensions, region merging, image modeling, and motion based segmentation. To treat various important classes of images, modeling investigates several parametric distributions such as the Gaussian, Gamma, Weibull, and Wishart. It also investigates non-parametric models. In motion segmentation, both optical flow and the movement of real three-dimensional objects are studied.

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Theoretical Chemical Engineering: Modeling and Simulation

By Christo Boyadjiev
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 600
Date: 2010-11-29
ISBN-10 : 364210777X, PDF 4,9 MB

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This survey presents the theoretical methods of chemical engineering for modeling and simulation of industrial processes. On this base it is possible to formulate correct experimental conditions and to understand rightly the experimental results. The book uses the mechanics of continuous media approach for modeling of the simple processes as hydrodynamic processes, mass and heat transfer processes.

The theory of the scalar, vector and tensor fields permit to create the basic equations and boundary conditions. The problems of rheology, turbulence, turbulent diffusion and turbulent mass transfer are examined too.

The book incorporates a lot of fundamental knowledge, but it is assumed that the readers are familiar with the mathematics at engineering level and that they thought some special topics in usual university courses. It includes examples at the end of all chapters using the author’s investigations. Therefore, it is highly valuable for scientists as well as graduate and PhD students.

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Guide to Three Dimensional Structure and Motion Factorization

By Guanghui Wang, Q.M. Jonathan Wu
Publisher: SpringerPages: 212, Date: 2010-09-17
ISBN-10 : 0857290452

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The problem of structure and motion recovery from image sequences is an important theme in computer vision. Considerable progress has been made in this field during the past two decades, resulting in successful applications in robot navigation, augmented reality, industrial inspection, medical image analysis, and digital entertainment, among other areas. However, many of these methods work only for rigid objects and static scenes.

The study of non-rigid structure from motion is not only of academic significance, but also has important practical applications in real-world, nonrigid or dynamic scenarios, such as human facial expressions and moving vehicles.

This practical guide/reference provides a comprehensive overview of Euclidean structure and motion recovery, with a specific focus on factorization-based algorithms. The book discusses the latest research in this field, including the extension of the factorization algorithm to recover the structure of non-rigid objects, and presents some new algorithms developed by the authors. Readers require no significant knowledge of computer vision, although some background on projective geometry and matrix computation would be beneficial.

Topics and features: presents the first systematic study of structure and motion recovery of both rigid and non-rigid objects from images sequences; discusses in depth the theory, techniques, and applications of rigid and non-rigid factorization methods in three dimensional computer vision; examines numerous factorization algorithms, covering affine, perspective and quasi-perspective projection models; provides appendices describing the mathematical principles behind projective geometry, matrix decomposition, least squares, and nonlinear estimation techniques; includes chapter-ending review questions, and a glossary of terms used in the book.

This unique text offers practical guidance in real applications and implementations of 3D modeling systems for practitioners in computer vision and pattern recognition, as well as serving as an invaluable source of new algorithms and methodologies for structure and motion recovery for graduate students and researchers.

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Engineering Analysis with ANSYS Software

By Tadeusz Stolarski
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Pages: 480, Date: 2007-01-29
ISBN-10 : 075066875X, PDF | 27.8 MB

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For all engineers and students coming to finite element analysis or to ANSYS software for the first time, this powerful hands-on guide develops a detailed and confident understanding of using ANSYS's powerful engineering analysis tools.

The best way to learn complex systems is by means of hands-on experience. With an innovative and clear tutorial based approach, this powerful book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to all of the fundamental areas of engineering analysis they are likely to require either as part of their studies or in getting up to speed fast with the use of ANSYS software in working life.

Opening with an introduction to the principles of the finite element method, the book then presents an overview of ANSYS technologies before moving on to cover key applications areas in detail.

Key topics covered:
Introduction to the finite element method
Getting started with ANSYS software
stress analysis
dynamics of machines
fluid dynamics problems
thermo mechanics
contact and surface mechanics
exercises, tutorials, worked examples

With its detailed step-by-step explanations, extensive worked examples and sample problems, this book will develop the reader's understanding of FEA and their ability to use ANSYS's software tools to solve their own particular analysis problems, not just the ones set in the book.

* Develops a detailed understanding of finite element analysis and the use of ANSYS software by example
* Develops a detailed understanding of finite element analysis and the use of ANSYS software by example
* Exclusively structured around the market leading ANSYS software, with detailed and clear step-by-step instruction, worked examples, and detailed, screen-by-screen illustrative problems to reinforce learning

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Biocatalysis and Biomolecular Engineering

By Jei-Fu Shaw, Publisher: Wiley
Pages: 490, Date: 2010-05-24
ISBN-10 : 0470487593, rar'ed pdf, 4.6 MB

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An expert overview of new technologies guiding the construction of a sustainable society
This compendium of important insights from sixty distinguished international scholars looks at the significant advances in progressive environmental technology—especially the molecular engineering used on plants, animals, and microorganisms—as the game changer in the high-stakes race to reverse earth-damaging practices.

Biocatalysis and Biomolecular Engineering covers subject matter on the latest developments in eco-friendly and energy-saving manufacturing processes with the emphasis on agricultural technology and bio-based products. Focusing its study on remedies that show promise in curing food and energy ills, this book examines groundbreaking work in various fields, such as nutraceuticals, genetic engineering of agricultural products, and bioenergy. Biocatalysis and Biomolecular Engineering:

*Can be used as a reference by teachers, graduate students, and industrial scientists who conduct research in bioscience and biotechnology
*Serves as the first book to bring together fundamentals and leading-edge technologies for the development of bio-based industrial products through biocatalysis; for example, it discusses the preparation of biofunctional micro- and nanoparticles
*Contains chapters by international experts from academia, industry, and government research institutes

Biocatalysis and Biomolecular Engineering builds a cohesive, well thought out case for nurturing new discoveries in eco-technology by inviting critical discussion on devising viable solutions to sustaining the future wellness of humankind.

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