Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants, Second Edition
Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants, Second Edition

Author: Charles L. Mader

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-08-29

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780849331497

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Charles Mader, a leading scientist who conducted theoretical research at Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 30 years, sets a new standard with this reference on numerical modeling of explosives and propellants. This book updates and expands the information presented in the author's landmark work, Numerical Modeling of Detonations, published in 1979 and still in use today. Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants incorporates the considerable changes the personal computer has brought to numerical modeling since the first book was published, and includes new three-dimensional modeling techniques and new information on propellant performance and vulnerability. Both an introduction to the physics and chemistry of explosives and propellants and a guide to numerical modeling of detonation and reactive fluid dynamics, Numerical Modeling of Explosives and Propellants offers scientists and engineers a complete picture of the current state of explosive and propellant technology and numerical modeling. The book is richly illustrated with figures that support the concepts, and filled with tables for quick access to precise data. The accompanying CD-ROM contains computer codes that are the national standard by which modeling is evaluated. Dynamic material properties data files and animation files are also included. There is no other book available today that offers this vital information.

Electromagnetics and Transmission Lines
Electromagnetics and Transmission Lines

Author: Uday A. Bakshi

Publisher: Technical Publications

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9333223789

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The book covers all the aspects of Electromagnetics and Transmission Lines for undergraduate course. The book provides comprehensive coverage of vector analysis, Coulomb's law, electric field intensity, flux and Gauss's law, conductors, dielectrics, capacitance, Poisson's and Laplace's equations, magnetostatics, electrodynamic fields, Maxwell's equations, Poynting theorem, transmission lines and uniform plane waves. The knowledge of vector analysis is the base of electromagnetic engineering. Hence book starts with the discussion of vector analysis. Then it introduces the basic concepts of electrostatics such as Coulomb's law, electric field intensity due to various charge distributions, electric flux, electric flux density, Gauss's law and divergence. The book continues to explain the concept of elementary work done, conservative property, electric potential and potential difference and the energy in the electrostatic fields. The detailed discussion of current density, continuity equation, boundary conditions and various types of capacitors is also included in the book. The book provides the discussion of Poisson's and Laplace's equations and their use in variety of practical applications. The chapter on magnetostatics incorporates the explanation of Biot-Savart's law, Ampere's circuital law and its applications, concept of curl scalar and vector magnetic potentials. The book also includes the concept of force on a moving charge, force on differential current element and magnetic boundary conditions. The book covers all the details of Faraday's laws, time varying fields, Maxwell's equations and Poynting theorem. The book covers the transmission line parameters in detail along with reflection on a line, reflection loss and reflection factor. The chapter on transmission line at radio frequency includes parameters of line at high frequency, standing waves, standing wave ratio and Smith chart. Finally, the book provides the detailed study of uniform plane waves including their propagation in free space, perfect dielectrics, lossy dielectrics and good conductors. The book uses plain and lucid language to explain each topic. The book provides the logical method of explaining the various complicated topics and stepwise methods to make the understanding easy. Each chapter is well supported with necessary illustrations, self explanatory diagrams and large number of solved problems. The book explains the philosophy of the subject which makes the understanding of the concepts very clear and makes the subject more interesting.

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Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka

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Total Pages: 169

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Enriched Meanings
Enriched Meanings

Author: Ash Asudeh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0192587072

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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain expressions that exhibit complex effects at the semantics/pragmatics boundary live in an enriched meaning space, while others live in a more basic meaning space. These basic meanings are mapped to enriched meanings only when required compositionally, which avoids generalizing meanings to the worst case. Ash Asudeh and Gianluca Giorgolo show that the monadic theory of enriched meanings offers a formally and computationally well-defined way to tackle important challenges at the semantics/pragmatics boundary. In particular, they develop innovative monadic analyses of three phenomena - conventional implicature, substitution puzzles, and conjunction fallacies - and demonstrate that the compositional properties of monads model linguistic intuitions about these cases particularly well. The analyses are accompanied by exercises to aid understanding, and the computational tools used are available on the book's companion website. The book also contains background chapters on enriched meanings and category theory. The volume is interdisciplinary in nature, with insights from semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, psychology, and computer science, and will appeal to graduate students and researchers from a wide range of disciplines with an interest in natural language understanding and representation.

Unsteady Aerodynamics
Unsteady Aerodynamics

Author: Grigorios Dimitriadis

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-11-28

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1119762553

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Unsteady Aerodynamics A comprehensive overview of unsteady aerodynamics and its applications The study of unsteady aerodynamics goes back a century and has only become more significant as aircraft become increasingly sophisticated, fly faster, and their structures are lighter and more flexible. Progress in the understanding of flow physics, computing power and techniques, and modelling technologies has led to corresponding progress in unsteady aerodynamics, with a wide range of methods currently used to predict the performance of engineering structures under unsteady conditions. Unsteady Aerodynamics offers a comprehensive and systematic overview of the application of potential and vortex methods to the subject. Beginning with an introduction to the fundamentals of unsteady flow, it then discusses the modelling of attached and separated, incompressible and compressible flows around two-dimensional and three-dimensional bodies. The result is an essential resource for design and simulation in aerospace engineering. Unsteady Aerodynamics readers will also find: MATLAB examples and exercises throughout, with codes and solutions on an accompanying website Detailed discussion of most classes of unsteady phenomena, including flapping flight, transonic flow, dynamic stall, flow around bluff bodies and more Validation of theoretical and numerical predictions using comparisons to experimental data from the literature Unsteady Aerodynamics is ideal for researchers, engineers, and advanced students in aerospace engineering.

Decision and Game Theory for Security
Decision and Game Theory for Security

Author: Stefan Rass

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-12

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 3319687115

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, GameSec 2017, held in Vienna, Austria, in October 2017. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions.The papers address topics such as Game theory and mechanism design for security and privacy; Pricing and economic incentives for building dependable and secure systems; Dynamic control, learning, and optimization and approximation techniques; Decision making and decision theory for cybersecurity and security requirements engineering; Socio-technological and behavioral approaches to security; Risk assessment and risk management; Security investment and cyber insurance; Security and privacy for the Internet-of-Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems, resilient control systems; New approaches for security and privacy in cloud computing and for critical infrastructure; Security and privacy of wireless and mobile communications, including user location privacy; Game theory for intrusion detection; and Empirical and experimental studies with game-theoretic or optimization analysis for security and privacy.

The Politics of Empire
The Politics of Empire

Author: Joseph Peschek

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-14

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 1000155307

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In the year after the September 11, 2001 attacks the Bush administration put together the elements of a far-reaching foreign policy doctrine based on unilateral action, pre-emptive military strikes, and prevention of the emergence of any strategic rivals to U.S. supremacy. Bush’s grand strategy was formalized in a September 17, 2002 presidential report called The National Security Strategy of the United States of America. The report argued for pre-emptive strikes against rogue states and terrorists, even if faced with international opposition, and for the maintenance of American military supremacy. Additionally the report placed the U.S. off-limits to international law, asserting that the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court "does not extend to Americans." Underlying the Bush doctrine is the notion that the U.S. must remain the unchallenged power in world affairs. "The United States possesses unprecedented – and unequaled – strength and influence in the world," the report began. Supremacy involves maintaining forces that "will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." Many questions are raised by the trajectory of U.S. policy under George W. Bush. What is distinctive about the Bush administration’s militarism and unilateralism? What are the political, ideological, and economic roots of the turn in U.S. foreign policy under George W. Bush? In what ways has the "war on terrorism" affected politics inside the United States in terms of civil liberties, treatment of immigrants, domestic and economic policy, and political discourse more generally? The Politics of Empire examines critically these and other urgent political and analytical questions. This is a Special Issue of the Journal New Political Science

Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling
Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling

Author: Roger A. Pielke

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 008092526X

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To effectively utilize mesoscale dynamical simulations of the atmosphere, it is necessary to have an understanding the basic physical and mathematical foundations of the models and to have an appreciation of how a particular atmospheric system works. Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling provides such an overview of mesoscale numerical modeling. Starting with fundamental concepts, this text can be used to evaluate the scientific basis of any simulation model that has been or will be developed. Basic material is provided for the beginner as well as more in-depth treatment for the specialist. This text is useful to both the practitioner and the researcher of the mesoscale phenomena.

EDGE from A-Z
EDGE from A-Z

Author: Inacon GmbH.

Publisher: Artech House Publishers

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13:

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Here's the print version of leading expert Rudolf Zarits' PowerPoint presentation on EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) ? a new mobile communications technology designed as an upgrade to TDMA-based networks. The EDGE family of standards allows upgrades to GSM, GPRS, HSCSD and IS-136 networks, leading to the fastest second generation high-speed mobile data networks possible. Used in EDGE training courses, this comprehensive resource pulls together all the relevant details on this technology, providing a quick and easy reference for your work in the field.