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Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists

  • 8th Edition
  • May 7, 2022
  • Daniel T. Valentine + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Essential MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists, Eighth Edition provides a concise and balanced overview of MATLAB's functionality, covering both fundamentals and applications. The essentials are illustrated throughout, featuring complete coverage of the software's windows and menus. Program design and algorithm development are presented, along with many examples from a wide range of familiar scientific and engineering areas. This edition has been updated to include the latest MATLAB versions through 2021a. This is an ideal book for a first course on MATLAB, but is also ideal for an engineering problem-solving course using MATLAB.

Industrial Tomography

  • 2nd Edition
  • May 6, 2022
  • Mi Wang
  • English
  • Paperback
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Industrial Tomography: Systems and Applications, Second Edition thoroughly explores the important techniques of industrial tomography, also discusses image reconstruction, systems, and applications. This book presents complex processes, including the way three-dimensional imaging is used to create multiple cross-sections, and how computer software helps monitor flows, filtering, mixing, drying processes, and chemical reactions inside vessels and pipelines. This book is suitable for materials scientists and engineers and applied physicists working in the photonics and optoelectronics industry or in the applications industries.

Emerging Contaminants in the Terrestrial-Aquatic-Atmosphere Continuum

  • 1st Edition
  • May 6, 2022
  • Willis Gwenzi
  • English
  • Paperback
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Emerging Contaminants in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments: Occurrence, Health Risks, and Mitigation provides the latest information on the synthesis of the occurrence, behavior, human health risks and mitigation of emerging contaminants in developing countries. First highlighting sources, industrial applications, key drivers and regulatory frameworks, the book then goes on to discuss the nature of emerging contaminants, including organic (e.g., pharmaceuticals), inorganic (e.g., rare earth elements) and biological agents (e.g., antimicrobial resistance). It then presents the dissemination, environmental behavior, and fate in terrestrial and aquatic systems as well as the human and ecological exposure pathways, health risks, and more. Offering a transdisciplinary approach that brings together perspectives and contributions from experts in environmental sciences, hydrology, environmental engineering, ecotoxicology, chemistry, material sciences, and legal and policy aspects, the book provides an approachable and flexible resource for researchers and upper-level students with diverse academic backgrounds.

Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets

  • 1st Edition
  • May 5, 2022
  • Benjamin Poulter + 3 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets: Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases provides a synthesis of greenhouse gas budgeting activities across the world. Organized in four sections, including background, methods, case studies and opportunities, it is an interdisciplinary book covering both science and policy. All environments are covered, from terrestrial to ocean, along with atmospheric processes using models, inventories and observations to give a complete overview of greenhouse gas accounting. Perspectives presented give readers the tools necessary to understand budget activities, think critically, and use the framework to carry out initiatives.

Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting

  • 1st Edition
  • May 5, 2022
  • Junlei Qi
  • English
  • Paperback
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Metal Oxides and Related Solids for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting reviews the fundamentals and strategies needed to design and fabricate metal oxide-based electrocatalysts. After an introduction to the key properties of transition metal oxides, materials engineering methods to optimize the performance of metal-oxide based electrocatalysts are discussed. Strategies reviewed include defect engineering, interface engineering and doping engineering. Other sections cover important categories of metal-oxide (and related solids) based catalysts, including layered hydroxides, metal chalcogenides, metal phosphides, metal nitrides, metal borides, and more. Each chapter introduces important properties and material design strategies, including composite and morphology design. There is also an emphasis on cost-effective materials design and fabrication for optimized performance for electrocatalytic water splitting applications. Lastly, the book touches on recently developed in-situ characterization methods applied to observe and control the material synthesis process.

Confined Fluid Phase Behavior and CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs

  • 1st Edition
  • May 5, 2022
  • Yueliang Liu + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Confined Fluid Phase Behavior and CO2 Sequestration in Shale Reservoirs delivers the calculation components to understand pore structure and absorption capacity involving unconventional reservoirs. Packed with experimental procedures, step-by-step instructions, and published data, the reference explains measurements for capillary pressure models, absorption behavior in double nano-pore systems, and the modeling of interfacial tension in C02/CH4/brine systems. Rounding out with conclusions and additional literature, this reference gives petroleum engineers and researchers the knowledge to maximize productivity in shale reservoirs.

Discrete Contact Mechanics with Applications in Tribology

  • 1st Edition
  • May 3, 2022
  • Irina Goryacheva + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Discrete Contact Mechanics with Applications in Tribology presents new solutions to contact problems for elastic and viscoelastic bodies in normal, sliding, and rolling contact, taking into account effects such as surface microgeometry, adhesion, fluid films, and viscous hysteresis in bulk material or surface layers. These solutions are applied to problems in tribology for modeling contact and friction of bodies with surface microgeometry (rough or textured). The book provides exact mathematical formulations for cases of discrete contact based on classical approaches of contact mechanics, allowing readers to study the influence of different parameters of surface microgeometry on contact characteristics and friction force.The book will help solve problems in modeling contact and friction interaction in cases of discrete character of contact interaction, mutual influence of individual contact spots in contact interaction of elastic and viscoelastic solids, calculating sliding and rolling friction forces as a result of adhesive and viscoelastic mechanisms of dissipation, and more.

Ceramic Science and Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • May 3, 2022
  • Kamakhya Prakash Misra + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Ceramic Science and Engineering: Basics to Recent Advancements covers the fundamentals, classification and applications surrounding ceramic engineering. In addition, the book contains an extensive review of the current published literature on established ceramic materials. Other sections present an extensive review of up-to-date research on new innovative ceramic materials and reviews recently published articles, case studies and the latest research outputs. The book will be an essential reference resource for materials scientists, physicists, chemists and engineers, postgraduate students, early career researchers, and industrial researchers working in R&D in the development of ceramic materials. Ceramic engineering deals with the science and technology of creating objects from inorganic and non-metallic materials. It combines the principles of chemistry, physics and engineering. Fiber-optic devices, microprocessors and solar panels are just a few examples of ceramic engineering being applied in everyday life. Advanced ceramics such as alumina, aluminum nitride, zirconia, ZnO, silicon carbide, silicon nitride and titania-based materials, each of which have their own specific characteristics and offer an economic and high-performance alternative to more conventional materials such as glass, metals and plastics are also discussed.

Electric Motor Drives and their Applications with Simulation Practices

  • 1st Edition
  • May 3, 2022
  • R Selvamathi + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Electric Motor Drives and Its Applications with Simulation Practices provides comprehensive coverage of the concepts of electric motor drives and their applications, along with their simulation using MATLAB and other software tools. The book helps engineers and students improve their software skills by learning to simulate various electric drives and applications and assists with new ideas in the simulation of electrical, electronics and instrumentations systems. Covering power electronic converter fed drives and simulation model building using all possible software as well as the operation and relevant applications discussed, the book provides a number of examples and step-by-step procedures for successful implementation. Intended for engineers, students and research scholars in industry who are working in the field of power electronics and drives, this book provides a brief introduction to simulation software under different environments.

ICP-MS and Trace Element Analysis as Tools for Better Understanding Medical Conditions

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 97
  • May 12, 2022
  • Marco Aurelio Zezzi-Arruda + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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ICP-MS and Trace Element Analysis as Tools for Better Understanding Medical Conditions, Volume 97 discusses trace elements and how they play an important role in biological functions and metabolism in the human body. Chapters cover Biomedical analysis by ICP-MS: A focus on single cell, Advanced statistical tools and machine learning applied to trace element analysis associated with medical conditions, ICP-MS as a tool to understand trace element homeostasis in neurological disorders, High-precision isotopic analysis of essential mineral elements – possibilities for medical diagnosis and prognosis, Exploring ICP-MS as a versatile technique: From imaging to chemical speciation, and more.

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