Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart

Books in Physical sciences and engineering

BooksJournals

    • Shale Gas

      • 1st Edition
      • January 23, 2017
      • Anurodh Mohan Dayal + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 9 5 7 3 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 9 5 3 5 5
      Shale Gas: Exploration and Environmental and Economic Impacts explores the shale gas exploration and production activities that are increasing globally, also presenting a basic understanding on the geological, geochemical, and geophysical aspects. The book is a key reference that is useful for researchers, the oil and gas industry, and policymakers in gas producing and prospective countries. Users will find chapters on hydraulic fracturing and shale gas drilling, as well as the environmental and economic impacts of these activities. Further chapters include case studies on the shale gas revolution in the United States and other producing countries around the world.

    • Soil Mechanics

      • 1st Edition
      • January 22, 2017
      • Victor Kaliakin
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 1 3 4 3 4
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 4 4 9 1 9
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 1 4 8 4 4
      Soil Mechanics: Calculations, Principles, and Methods provides expert insights into the nature of soil mechanics through the use of calculation and problem-solving techniques. This informed reference begins with basic principles and calculations, illustrating physical meanings of the unit weight of soil, specific gravity, water content, void ratio, porosity, saturation, and their typical values. This is followed by calculations that illustrate the need for soil identification, classification, and ways to obtain soil particle size distribution, including sizes smaller than 0.075mm, performance, and the use of liquid and plastic limit tests. The book goes on to provide expert coverage regarding the use of soil identification and classification systems (both Unified Soil Classification System and AASHTO), and also includes applications concerning soil compaction and field applications, hydraulic conductivity and seepage, soil compressibility and field application, and shear strength and field application.

    • Solar Energy Desalination Technology

      • 1st Edition
      • January 20, 2017
      • Hongfei Zheng
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 5 4 1 1 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 9 4 2 2 8
      Solar Energy Desalination Technology explains how to obtain clean water from sea water using solar energy. Special methods and types used in solar desalination are introduced, providing new thoughts, concepts, and feasible solutions in the desalination field, along with the thermal and economic efficiency relating to current technology. Many places in the world are suffering from fresh water shortage. However, those places are often rich with solar resources, sea water, and/or brackish water resources that could dramatically benefit from solar energy as a viable solution for the production of fresh water.

    • Applied Underwater Acoustics

      • 1st Edition
      • January 19, 2017
      • Thomas Neighbors + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 1 2 4 0 3
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 1 2 4 7 2
      Applied Underwater Acoustics meets the needs of scientists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and graduate students solving problems in, and preparing theses on, topics in underwater acoustics. The book is structured to provide the basis for rapidly assimilating the essential underwater acoustic knowledge base for practical application to daily research and analysis. Each chapter of the book is self-supporting and focuses on a single topic and its relation to underwater acoustics. The chapters start with a brief description of the topic’s physical background, necessary definitions, and a short description of the applications, along with a roadmap to the chapter. The subtopics covered within individual subchapters include most frequently used equations that describe the topic. Equations are not derived, rather, assumptions behind equations and limitations on the applications of each equation are emphasized. Figures, tables, and illustrations related to the sub-topic are presented in an easy-to-use manner, and examples on the use of the equations, including appropriate figures and tables are also included.

    • Networks of Invasion: A Synthesis of Concepts

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 56
      • January 19, 2017
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 4 3 3 8 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 4 3 3 1 8
      Networks of Invasion bridges a conceptual gap between ecological network studies and invasion biology studies. This book contains chapters detailing pressing concerns regarding invasive species in food webs, but also extends the idea of networks of invasion to other systems, such as mutualistic networks or even the human microbiome. Chapters describe the tools, models, and empirical methods adapted for tackling invasions in ecological networks.

    • The Partition Method for a Power Series Expansion

      • 1st Edition
      • January 19, 2017
      • Victor Kowalenko
      • English
      • Hardback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 4 4 6 6 7
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 0 4 5 1 1 4
      The Partition Method for a Power Series Expansion: Theory and Applications explores how the method known as 'the partition method for a power series expansion', which was developed by the author, can be applied to a host of previously intractable problems in mathematics and physics. In particular, this book describes how the method can be used to determine the Bernoulli, cosecant, and reciprocal logarithm numbers, which appear as the coefficients of the resulting power series expansions, then also extending the method to more complicated situations where the coefficients become polynomials or mathematical functions. From these examples, a general theory for the method is presented, which enables a programming methodology to be established. Finally, the programming techniques of previous chapters are used to derive power series expansions for complex generating functions arising in the theory of partitions and in lattice models of statistical mechanics.

    • The Physics of Elementary Particles

      • 1st Edition
      • January 19, 2017
      • H. Murihead
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 6 9 5 2 1
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 8 5 3 3 0
      The Physics of Elementary Particles details the physical principles that govern the behavior of elementary particles. The title focuses on discussing the theoretical concepts of elementary particles. The text first tackles the discovery and classification of the elementary particles, and then proceeds to covering the intrinsic properties of the particles. Chapter 3 talks about the preliminaries to a quantized field theory, while Chapter 4 deals with the quantum theory of non-interacting fields. Next, the selection details the symmetry properties of free fields. The next five chapters are dedicated to covering the interaction of fields. The remaining chapters discuss various forms of interaction, such as electromagnetic, weak, and strong. The book will be of great interest to physicists, particularly those who specialize in quantum mechanics.

    • Modelling and Mechanics of Carbon-based Nanostructured Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • January 18, 2017
      • Duangkamon Baowan + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 2 4 6 3 5
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 2 4 6 4 2
      Modelling and Mechanics of Carbon-based Nanostructured Materials sets out the principles of applied mathematical modeling in the topical area of nanotechnology. It is purposely designed to be self-contained, giving readers all the necessary modeling principles required for working with nanostructures. The unique physical properties observed at the nanoscale are often counterintuitive, sometimes astounding researchers and thus driving numerous investigations into their special properties and potential applications. Typically, existing research has been conducted through experimental studies and molecular dynamics simulations. This book goes beyond that to provide new avenues for study and review.

    • Pneumatic and Hydraulic Control Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • January 18, 2017
      • M. A. Aizerman
      • English
      • eBook
        9 7 8 1 4 8 3 1 5 2 8 5 1
      Pneumatic and Hydraulic Control Systems, Volume 1 covers the collection of Russian works on the subject of pneumatic and hydraulic automatic control. The book discusses applications and means of pneumatic control; systems of pneumatic and hydraulic automation; devices of pneumatic and hydraulic control units; and the regulation of final mechanisms. The text also describes the automatic compressed air plant; nozzle-baffle elements of pneumatic and hydraulic devices; the variations of the effective areas of diaphragms; and characteristics of diaphragms used in sensing elements of controllers. The elements of pneumatic and hydraulic devices are also considered. Automatic control specialists will find the book useful.

    • Handbook of Spent Hydroprocessing Catalysts

      • 2nd Edition
      • January 18, 2017
      • Meena Marafi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
        9 7 8 0 4 4 4 6 3 8 8 1 6
      • eBook
        9 7 8 0 4 4 4 6 3 8 8 5 4
      Handbook of Spent Hydroprocessing Catalysts, Second Edition, covers all aspects of spent hydroprocessing catalysts, both regenerable and non-regenerable. It contains detailed information on hazardous characteristics of spent and regenerated catalysts. The information forms a basis for determining processing options to make decisions on whether spent catalysts can be either reused on refinery site after regeneration or used as the source of new materials. For non-regenerable spent catalysts, attention is paid to safety and ecological implications of utilizing landfill and other waste handling and storage options to ensure environmental acceptance. As such, this handbook can be used as a benchmark document to develop threshold limits of regulated species.

Related subjects

Astronomy astrophysics space science

Built environment

Chemical engineering

Chemistry

Computer science

Earth and planetary sciences

Energy and power

Engineering and technology

Environmental sciences

Materials science

Mathematics

Physics