Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Reliable Non-Parametric Techniques for Energy System Operation and Control

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Hongcai Zhang + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Reliable Non-Parametric Techniques for Energy System Operation and Control: Fundamentals and Applications of Constraint Learning and Safe Reinforcement Learning Methods offers a comprehensive guide to cutting-edge smart methods in energy system operation and control. This book begins by covering fundamentals, applications in deterministic and uncertain environments, accuracy in imbalanced datasets, and overcoming measurement limitations. It also delves into mathematical insights and computationally-efficient implementations. Part II addresses energy system control using safe reinforcement learning, exploring training-efficient intrinsic-motivated reinforcement learning, physical layer-based control, barrier function-based control, and CVaR-based control for systems without hard operation constraints. Designed for graduate students, researchers, and engineers, Reliable Non-Parametric Techniques for Energy System Operation and Control stands out for its practical approach to advanced methods in energy system control, enabling sustainable developments in real-world conditions.

Up and Running with AutoCAD 2026

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Robert C. Kaebisch
English
Paperback
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Up and Running with AutoCAD 2026: 2D and 3D Drawing, Design and Modeling presents a combination of step-by-step instructions, examples, and insightful explanations. The book emphasizes core concepts and practical application of AutoCAD in engineering, architecture, and design. Equally useful in instructor-led classroom training, self-study, or as a professional reference, the book is written by a long-time AutoCAD professor and instructor with the user in mind.

MATLAB Scientific Plotting and Data Analysis

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Jinbin Ding
English
Paperback
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MATLAB Scientific Plotting and Data Analysis combines the author's extensive experience in data analysis and scientific plotting to provide detailed explanations of the methods and techniques for using MATLAB in creating scientific charts and conducting data analysis. The book is divided into three parts, comprising a total of 12 chapters. The first part mainly covers the basics of MATLAB, including the operating environment, data types and basic operations, file operations, and programming. The second part focuses on MATLAB's data visualization capabilities, providing detailed explanations of topics such as figure window information, 2D plotting, 3D plotting, specialized plotting, and handle graphics objects. The third part covers topics such as descriptive data analysis, interpolation and fitting, regression analysis, and optimization problem solving. The book also provides links to over 200 examples of teaching videos and hands-on exercise resource files to help readers improve their learning efficiency.

The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Hossein Pourrahmani + 2 more
English
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eBook
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The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain provides an essential guide to understanding the transformative potential of advanced technologies in decentralized hydrogen communities. This comprehensive resource covers the intersection of AI, IoT, and blockchain with sustainable energy, offering insights from foundational principles to advanced applications. Readers will learn about the environmental benefits of hydrogen over fossil fuels, electrolysis, and the integration of innovative technologies to enhance hydrogen production and distribution. The book delves into the role of fuel cells in clean energy, advanced AI algorithms in hydrogen production, blockchain trust in hydrogen networks, and IoT connectivity.Economic considerations, policy frameworks, and the future of decentralized hydrogen communities are also explored, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students interested in the hydrogen economy.

Deep Learning

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Shuhao Wang + 1 more
English
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Deep Learning: From Algorithmic Essence to Industrial Practice introduces the fundamental theories of deep learning, engineering practices, and their deployment and application in the industry. It provides a detailed explanation of classic convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer networks based on self-attention mechanisms, along with their variants, combining code demonstrations. Additionally, it covers the applications of these models in areas such as image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, etc. The book also considers the advancements in deep reinforcement learning and generative adversarial networks.

Engineered Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Products by Microwave Techniques

1st Edition
June 27, 2025
Pinki Pal + 2 more
English
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Engineered Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone Products by Microwave Techniques: Processing, Characterization, and Applications is an indispensable guide to customizing polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) properties through derivatization using microwave techniques. The book showcases the benefits of microwave radiation in polymerization, providing consistency and reproducibility without altering the polymer structure. It covers the successful modifications achieved and underscores the unique advantages of these techniques. The book delves into diverse applications of these specialized plastics in agriculture, medicine, and consumer products. It also discusses scaling up synthesis processes for commercial production, making it a valuable reference for understanding the potential of engineered polymeric materials.

Sustainable Nanomaterials

1st Edition
June 20, 2025
Manviri Rani + 1 more
English
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Sustainable Nanomaterials provides core and advanced information about various sustainable nanomaterials and their synthetic approaches to natural and renewable resources. It summarizes various regulatory initiatives for ensuring sustainability goals and legal aspects of sustainable nanomaterials.This book also addresses potential nanomaterial risks and concludes that green nanotechnology is a concept that needs to be embedded and promoted in regulatory and voluntary initiatives to ensure nanotechnology’s sustainable development.This is a useful resource for advanced students, as well as environmental engineers, researchers, and the environmental industry.

Chalcones and their Derivatives

1st Edition
June 15, 2025
Mohmmad Younus Wani + 3 more
English
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Chalcone is one of the most versatile scaffolds with wide range of applications. It is used as a precursor for diverse classes of organic molecules, natural flavonoids and possesses interesting biological activities and physical properties like semiconductor, non-linear optical, fluorescence, and electronic properties to name a few. Chalcones have been the subject of intense research due to their biological activities and the ability to tweak their biological activity and other properties by small changes along the a, b-unsaturated backbone. Besides their inherent biological activities, they have found uses in food industry and cosmetic industry as additives, due to their UV protection properties. They have also found applications as chemosensors and probes. These diverse features make chalcones one of the most fascinating molecules Chalcones and their Derivatives: From Synthesis to Applications features this molecule, different methods and approaches to synthesis, significance of this scaffold in biology, and other diverse fields. It serves as a comprehensive literature guide for researchers and a reference material for the postgraduate students involved with the development and use of chalcone based molecules.

Soil Pollution

2nd Edition
June 10, 2025
Teresa Rocha-Santos + 2 more
English
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Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.

Fatigue in Composites

2nd Edition
June 2, 2025
Marino Quaresimin
English
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Fatigue in Composites: Science, Damage Mechanics, and Design Applications, Second Edition provides an authoritative review of current knowledge on the fatigue behavior of composites. The book covers a wide range of different problems encountered by designers in the automotive, marine, and structural engineering industries. Sections cover methodologies and the response of materials under cyclic loadings, present more advanced topics such as the response of materials under in-service or extreme conditions, include theoretical developments and modeling approaches, and present industrial cases and applications in different fields of engineering.Fatigue in Composites: Science, Damage Mechanics, and Design Applications, Second Edition provides an authoritative review of current knowledge on the fatigue behavior of composites. The book covers a wide range of different problems encountered by designers in the automotive, marine, and structural engineering industries. Sections cover methodologies and the response of materials under cyclic loadings, present more advanced topics such as the response of materials under in-service or extreme conditions, include theoretical developments and modeling approaches, and present industrial cases and applications in different fields of engineering.Leading scientists from academia and industry have prepared the different chapters. Particular care has been devoted to coordinating the content, style, and philosophy behind the various chapters, with a central aim of providing a consistent and coherent approach. Several new topics have been included that were not available in the first edition in view of recent advances, such as the availability of new investigation techniques and the development of new areas of activity.

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