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Books in Physical sciences and engineering

  • Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

    Using MATLAB and Octave
    • 2nd Edition
    • July 4, 2025
    • William Ford + 1 more
    • English
    Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications: Using MATLAB and Octave, Second Edition provides practical knowledge on modern computational techniques for the numerical solution of linear algebra problems. The book offers a unified presentation of computation, basic algorithm analysis, and numerical methods to compute solutions. Useful to readers regardless of background, the text begins with six introductory courses to provide background for those who haven’t taken applied or theoretical linear algebra. This approach offers a thorough explanation of the issues and methods for practical computing using MATLAB as the vehicle for computation.Appropri... for advanced undergraduate and early graduate courses on numerical linear algebra, this useful textbook explores numerous applications to engineering and science.

  • Reliable Non-Parametric Techniques for Energy System Operation and Control

    Fundamentals and Applications of Constraint Learning and Safe Reinforcement Learning Methods
    • 1st Edition
    • July 4, 2025
    • Hongcai Zhang + 3 more
    • English
    Reliable Non-Parametric Techniques for Energy System Operation and Control: Fundamentals and Applications of Constraint Learning and Safe Reinforcement Learning Methods, a new Volume in the Advances in Intelligent Energy Systems, is a comprehensive guide to modern smart methods in energy system operation and control. This book covers fundamental concepts and applications in both deterministic and uncertain environments. It addresses the challenge of accuracy in imbalanced datasets and the limitations of measurements. The book delves into advanced topics such as safe reinforcement learning for energy system control, including training-efficient intrinsic-motivated reinforcement learning, and physical layer-based control, and more. Other chapters cover barrier function-based control and CVaR-based control for systems without hard operation constraints. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and engineers, this book stands out for its practical approach to advanced methods in energy system control, enabling sustainable developments in real-world conditions.

  • Marine Specialized (Secondary) Metabolites and their Diverse Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • July 3, 2025
    • Thilina Jayawardena + 1 more
    • English
    Over the past 50 years, more than 20,000 natural compounds have been identified in the marine environment, with an increasing focus on marine metabolites as potential sources for developing effective therapeutic agents. The field of marine drug discovery has seen remarkable growth in recent years, with numerous marine-derived therapeutic candidates in various stages of clinical trials or awaiting approval. The ocean is a potential source of natural products with diverse pharmacological properties, including antimicrobial, anticancer, antiviral, antioxidative, and anti-inflammatory activities. However, commercializing marine natural products has been challenging due to low yields and specificity of specialized (secondary) metabolites. Marine Specialized (Secondary) Metabolites and their Diverse Applications provides a broad overview of marine specialized metabolites and their potential in various industries. With comprehensive coverage, relevance to current trends, interdisciplinary approach, and practical applications, this book includes specific compounds or organisms, with a particular focus on addressing the challenges and limitations associated with them.

  • Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment

    From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • Biswajeet Pradhan + 2 more
    • English
    Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment: From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping presents an overview of the most recent developments in machine learning techniques that have reshaped our understanding of geo-materials and management protocols of geo-risk. The book covers a broad category of research on machine-learning techniques that can be applied, from microscopic modeling to constitutive modeling, to physics-based numerical modeling, to regional susceptibility mapping. This is a good reference for researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, professionals, and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering and applied geology.

  • Damage and Healing Mechanics of Materials

    Metals and Metal Matrix Composites
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • George Z. Voyiadjis + 1 more
    • English
    Damage and Healing Mechanics of Materials: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites covers the fundamentals of damage mechanics, with various damage models presented coupled with elastic and elasto-plastic behavior. Experimental investigations and the related data for damage in composite materials are included, as are computational modeling and simulation methods for investigating damage and healing in various materials and structures. Healing mechanics using both scalars and more general theory based on tensor notations are discussed, as are applications of damage mechanics. Undamageable materials, the generalized method of cells, phase field modeling, cyclic plasticity concepts, and more are all also covered.

  • Energy Efficiency in Critical Times

    Security, Economics, and Transition
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • Romanus Osabohien
    • English
    Energy Efficiency in Critical Times: Security, Economics, and Transition provides a holistic perspective on energy policy analysis and development from a global context, covering economic, security, and technological aspects. Sections focus on economic policy for energy systems, consider the impacts of policy for technological system advancement, such as vehicle electrification and renewable energy integration, demonstrate techniques for analysis of major events, including the huge ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and focus on energy trading across borders.Including cutting-edge analyses of recent crises and close assessment of needs specific to lower-income countries, this book provides researchers, policymakers, and students with an essential guide to energy policy for a secure and sustainable future.

  • Intelligent Shield Machines

    The Application of Advanced Technologies in Tunnel Construction
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • Huayong Yang + 1 more
    • English
    Intelligent Shield Machines: The Application of Advanced Technologies in Tunnel Construction explores both theoretical and practical engineering applications for new technologies and machines. Machines have long been used in tunnelling as a result of their high reliability, high efficiency, and high value-added, providing a fast digging speed, high construction quality, and low impact on the surrounding environment. However, with the rapid development of new-generation information technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence technology, the field of shield equipment offers even greater potential.

  • Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation

    Methods for Ecosystem Assessment
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • Manuel Campos-Taberner + 2 more
    • English
    Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation: Methods for Ecosystem Assessment transforms the way remote sensing data can be used to approach monitoring of carbon fluxes (CF) and biophysical variables (BV) in ecosystem and global vegetation monitoring. In a field where these two subjects have traditionally been treated as distinct entities, this book offers an integrated exploration of CF and BV retrieval through remote sensing. It not only delves into a wide array of approaches and methodologies but also assists readers in selecting the most suitable models based on available inputs and spatiotemporal scales. Carbon Fluxes and Biophysical Variables from Earth Observation is a useful resource for Earth Observation specialists, particularly in Remote Sensing, machine learning, ecology, and plant physiology, to enhance and adapt their approaches and methodologies.

  • Quaternion-Based Sparse Image Processing

    Advances in Multispectral Processing
    • 1st Edition
    • July 2, 2025
    • Satya Prakash Yadav + 4 more
    • English
    Quaternion-Sparse Image Processing: Advances in Multispectral Processing brings together the technologies, research, and managerial applications of quaternion-sparse based complex algebra in image processing. The book covers the entire range of complicated tasks performed on color images, including denoising, reconstruction, classification, hallucination, feature extraction, dimension reduction, and regularization. It provides easy understanding and smooth adaptability of basic and advanced concepts for graduate students, researchers, doctors, academics, and practitioners.

  • Advances in Heat Transfer

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 59
    • July 2, 2025
    • English
    Advances in Heat Transfer, Volume 59 presents the latest in a serial that highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Sample chapters in this new release include A Thermal Performance Improvement Study on a Novel Heat Sink Design and Innovative thermal management solutions for high-performance electronics: Advanced simulation techniques and practical applications.

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