Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Hydrological Insights

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Hossein Hashemi + 2 more
English

Hydrological Insights: Synergizing Groundwater Models, Remote Sensing, and AI for Water Sustainability offers an in-depth exploration of hydrological modeling and its cutting-edge advancements, presented across six comprehensive sections. Part I establishes the foundational principles and methodologies of hydrological modeling, while Part II delves into sophisticated techniques and tools that enhance the accuracy and efficiency of hydrological studies. Part III highlights the powerful integration of remote sensing and artificial intelligence, showcasing how these technologies revolutionize modern hydrological practices. In Part IV, the focus shifts to environmental impact assessment and management strategies, outlining effective methods for sustainable water resource management. Part V covers the latest advancements in remote sensing and machine learning, emphasizing their pivotal role in contemporary hydrology. Finally, Part VI presents real-world case studies and future directions, offering practical insights and forward-looking perspectives. With meticulously crafted chapters that combine theoretical foundations with practical applications, this book is an essential resource for students, researchers, and professionals seeking to advance their understanding of hydrology through the integration of remote sensing and AI.

Geospatial Techniques in Climate Change Monitoring and Environmental Mapping

1st Edition
Volume 10
November 1, 2025
Jung-Sup Um + 3 more
English

Geospatial Techniques in Climate Change Monitoring and Environmental Mapping: Advances and Applications explores the innovative methods and applications of remote sensing for climate-change-related studies. Climate change requires a comprehensive approach that integrates various disciplines and perspectives, which remote sensing technology and data acquisition can greatly improve. The book opens with an examination of climate observation and monitoring, the consolidation of remote sensing data systems in environmental mapping, and the tracking of air pollution by remote sensing data. Climate change is comprehensively covered with chapters covering the use of remote sensing data to monitor and predict climate change; mapping, monitoring, and characterization of land change with climate time series data; tracking climate change and tropical cyclones using geospatial technique; the system dynamics model of economic development and climate change; and a close look at climate change mitigation, adaptation, and future directions. Climate modelling, validation, uncertainty mapping are also explored. Finally, the guiding role of the application of remote sensing data in government climate policies and sustainable approaches for risk reduction of global climate change issues are discussed in depth. This cutting-edge reference offers readers the latest thinking on the spatial techniques that scientists across disciplines can employ in the fight against climate change.

Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Mariano Martín Martín
English

Industrial Chemical Process Analysis and Design, Second Edition uses chemical engineering principles to explain the transformation of basic raw materials into major chemical products. The book discusses traditional processes to create products like nitric acid, sulphuric acid, ammonia, and methanol, as well as more novel products like bioethanol and biodiesel.In addition to providing full code and datasets for download, detailed discussion of advanced in technology, this edition also contains three new chapters. Firstly, covering polymers, including H and L D PE, PMMA, PC, biobased and full analysis of each, including full code for modelling across popular software. Secondly , evaluating phosphoric acid production and fertilizers, and Finally, the third new chapter focuses on blast furnaces – outlining not only the traditional technologies using C as reducing agent, but also analysis of novel technologies using hydrogen. This book will be a comprehensive guide to students and academics working with the latest techniques in process optimization at graduate level and above, including some upper undergraduate researchers. This book will also be very valuable for academics looking to teach or lecture in chemical process engineering. This books will also be a very useful resource for anyone within the process industry - to introduce the analysis of novel technologies as well as the modelling examples including recent software such as python, gProms or even Excel or Matlab to solve reactor modelling and units operation but also process simulators applied to typical chemical processes.

Net Zero

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Farooq Sher
English

Net Zero: A Blueprint for Global Sustainability is an in-depth exploration of the progress, opportunities, pathways, and challenges in achieving net-zero emissions to control climate change and global warming issues. It stands as a groundbreaking and comprehensive guide in the realm of climate action literature, traversing the intricate landscape of climate change mitigation and focusing on the imperative of achieving net-zero emissions globally. This book scrutinizes both the technological facets of achieving net-zero emissions, such as advancements in renewable energy and carbon capture and storage technologies, and also delves into the socio-economic and ethical dimensions. It will also focus on the importance of achieving net-zero emissions globally by covering a wide range of industries, including business, chemical, manufacturing, aviation, heat, electricity, building, and power sectors.

Strategic Disconnections in Retrosynthetic Analysis from Pattern Recognition

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Claudio Trombini
English

Strategic Disconnections in Retrosynthetic Analysis from Pattern Recognition: An Applied Approach provides an exhaustive introduction to retrosynthetic analysis, based upon a strategic disconnection approach. It presents a sequence of prioritized disconnections of general structures, each characterized by either a specific functionalization pattern (such as 1,4-dicarbonyl compounds), or a structural motif like the presence of stereogenic centers, bicyclic frameworks, etc. The book provides numerous examples which follow each strategic disconnection of functional or structural motifs. The examples, coming from a careful selection of literature, are organized in the following hierarchical order: i) functional or structural pattern, ii) selected disconnection, iii) polar, radical, or concerted reaction pathway. Unravelling the chemistry behind each example offers excellent training for developing 3D visualization skills, refining critical reasoning in proposing alternative approaches to the synthetic choices found in the literature, and cultivating one’s own expertise. In addition to providing an overview through the analysis of various advancements made in organic synthesis over the last 50 years, each strategic disconnection is illustrated with several cases of varying complexity sourced from curated literature. Whilst numerous examples are provided, it is not necessary to examine them all; just a few can be sufficient at first glance to understand a synthetic strategy. Readers can then focus on the most interesting ones from their perspectives or those most akin to their own problems in their lab work. Each case comes with its original reference, enabling readers interested in delving into specific examples to easily find primary information. Strategic Disconnections in Retrosynthetic Analysis from Pattern Recognition: An Applied Approach is written primarily for graduate and postdoc students levels studying organic chemistry and organic synthesis, as well as researchers in industry involved in synthetic chemistry. The general disconnection schemes may also be useful to advanced undergraduate students with a solid foundation in general organic chemistry.

AI and Data Science in Precision Medicine, Predictive Analytics, and Medical Practice

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Olfa Boubaker
English

AI and Data Science in Precision Medicine, Predictive Analytics, and Medical Practice explores the transformative role of AI and data science in enhancing precision medicine, predictive analytics, and medical practice. It covers diverse topics such as AI-driven personalized medicine, seizure prediction through EEG analysis, and the application of chaos theory in AI-driven healthcare. The volume also delves into medical practice and education, including ethical considerations, AI-driven supply chain management, and clinical documentation using natural language processing. Furthermore, it examines AI's role in telemedicine, patient engagement, and adherence, offering innovative solutions to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes.

Exploring Infant Cry

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Carlos Alberto Reyes Garcia + 3 more
English

Exploring Infant Cry: Medical and Technological Analysis and Signal Processing Perspectives brings together the most advanced medical and technical knowledge in the study of infant crying. This book includes medical, technical, and computational approaches to cry processing for classification and diagnostic purposes. The book is written by medical and technical experts in Infant Cry processing and is an important step forward for research dealing with the process and interpretation of crying from both medical and technical perspectives. The number of research groups dedicated to this area has been growing, and with more research emerging it will be possible to use crying analysis as a powerful non-intrusive diagnostic tool for a large number of pathologies from the time they begin to appear, as well as for determining the cause of the crying in such a way as to tell parents the various reasons why a baby is crying. Exploring Infant Cry: Medical and Technological Analysis and Signal Processing Perspectives presents the advances of international groups of researchers where normal and pathological patterns of infant crying are studied, the possibilities of cry analysis for neonatal diagnosis, as well as perspectives on the development of this emerging field of research. The links of a baby’s first cries with the formation of language are addressed in the volume, as well as the communicative potential of the crying signal that makes this attribute a primary part of the vast and complex environment of human communication. Although the analysis of infant crying has received the attention of scientists and scholars of crying from diverse and varied approaches for more than 50 years, it continues to be an open topic with multiple unsolved or sufficiently investigated aspects, mainly in the area of routine applications to neonatal diagnosis.Exploring Infant Cry: Medical and Technological Analysis and Signal Processing Perspectives brings together for the first time the most advanced medical and technical knowledge on the study of crying babies. Considering on one hand the most important information as a diagnostic element, from the medical point of view, along with that provided by the technological field in order to automate acoustic processing, extraction of the most distinctive features, as well as recognition of outstanding patterns and their classification by type of pathology or cause of crying. These provide informative support tools for biomedical researchers, doctors, and clinicians. As a contribution to the technological support, a notable aspect of the book is the authors’ compilation of the most recent approaches to the classification of infant crying in correspondence with the important advances achieved in the field of signal processing, Artificial Intelligence, and soft computing. Readers of the book will find it to be an effective way to discover the foundations of the analysis of infant crying, as well as the various approaches and perspectives that have made it possible to advance the understanding of crying as an acoustic, neurophysiological, communicative, and linguistic phenomenon.

Green Hydrogen Energy Systems

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Alexandros Arsalis + 8 more
English

Green Hydrogen Energy Systems delves into the most important green hydrogen generation, storage, and utilization methods and technologies. Taking an energy systems approach, the book provides a holistic review of green hydrogen energy systems, integrating the principles, configurations, progress, and applications, supported by technoeconomic analyses and performance data. The book addresses common challenges and explains the processes for developing and building basic and advanced green hydrogen energy systems, providing the necessary tools to analyze the processes involved, with a detailed discussion of all key technologies that are related to green hydrogen energy systems. The book provides a detailed description of the fundamentals of each hydrogen technology, including thermodynamics, kinetics, energy loss mechanisms, and cost. Also considered are aspects such as the release or use of heat, the need for clean water to use in water electrolyzers, and how these impact system configurations. Moreover, relevant system analysis tools and techniques are provided. Each process and model used in green hydrogen energy systems is explained in detail, along with relevant calculation methods, and supported by typical data deriving from these systems. An overview of active research projects, case studies, and manufacturers is also provided, which includes real-world performance data. Finally, the book offers dedicated chapters on hydrogen hubs and valleys, health and safety, and hydrogen economics. Written by an expert team working across complementary areas of hydrogen engineering, Green Hydrogen Energy Systems offers an invaluable resource to students, researchers, scientists, and professionals interested in understanding or developing hydrogen energy systems, and will be of interest to anyone involved in the hydrogen economy.

PEM Fuel Cells Performance

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Mehrzad Shams + 1 more
English

PEM Fuel Cell Performance: Simulation and Optimization by AI presents novel approaches and methods to improve the performance of PEM fuel cells through multi-objective optimization, computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, and exergy analysis. The book provides solutions to specific problems related to the design and optimization of the PEM fuel cell and its elements, supported by examples, case studies, and numerical simulations. Readers are introduced to the potentials and challenges of PEM fuel cells for various sectors, such as transport, power generation, or hydrogen production. PEM fuel cell performance and optimization is discussed at each stage, covering the design, development, testing, and operation of PEM fuel cell systems and components. For students, the book reviews the basics and applications of PEMFCs and explains the fundamental concepts and theories behind PEMFC performance, supported by exercises and example codes. For researchers the book offers solutions to the challenges in designing and optimizing the PEM fuel cell and its components, and in applying novel approaches and methods to improve performance. This includes examples, case studies, and numerical simulations that illustrate the solutions to specific problems and the applications of novel techniques. Finally, the book provides a guide for engineers and practitioners seeking to enhance the performance, efficiency, durability, and cost-effectiveness of fuel cell systems. This includes practical guidance on elements such as the electrodes, gas diffusion layers, flow fields, two-phase flow, thermal management, and operating conditions. PEM Fuel Cell Performance: Simulation and Optimization by AI offers a valuable guide to students, researchers, engineers, and practitioners working on PEM fuel cells and will be of benefit to interdisciplinary experts working in electrochemistry, materials science, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and electrical engineering.

Quantum Communication, Quantum Networks, and Quantum Sensing

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Ivan B. Djordjevic
English

Quantum Communication, Quantum Networks and Quantum Sensing: An Applied Approach, Second Edition, is a self-contained and up-to date introduction to quantum communication, quantum error-correction, quantum networks, and quantum sensing. It provides everything an engineer or computer scientist needs in one tutorial-based introduction to understand and implement quantum-level circuits and modules for quantum communication and networking, quantum sensing, and quantum error correction. This text is suitable for engineers, computer scientists, optical engineers, physicists and mathematicians who want a non-theoretical and practical introduction to quantum communications, quantum networks and quantum sensing.

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