Author: Yasar Demirel
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: physical, biological, systems, processes, rate, thermodynamics, transport, nonequilibrium
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $275.00
ISBN-10: 0444508864
ISBN-13: 9780444508867

The book begins with a brief review of equilibrium systems and transport and rate processes, then covers the following areas: theory of nonequilibrium thermodynamics; dissipation function; entropy and exergy; analysis and case studies on using the second law of thermodynamics; economic impact of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics theory; analysis of transport and rate processes; membrane transport; dissipative structures and biological systems; and other thermodynamic approaches and extended nonequilibrium thermodynamics. · Summarizes new applications of thermodynamics as tools for design and

Author: Richard Petela
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: power, utilization, solar, radiation, thermodynamics, thermal, engineering
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2010-01-12
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0071639624
ISBN-13: 9780071639620

Complete coverage of the thermodynamics of radiation matter for solar energy utilization This comprehensive guide reviews the fundamentals of the thermodynamics of radiation matter--photon gas. The book introduces the exergy of radiation through the most advanced thermodynamic analysis of the solar power processes involving radiation. Engineering Thermodynamics of Thermal Radiation: For Solar Power Utilization provides, for the first time, an exhaustive discussion on energy and exergy analysis of radiation processes. Extensive details on the exergy of radiation are developed for evaluation of

Authors:Juan M. Corchado, Dante Tapia, Jose Bravo,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computing, intelligent, soft, advances, ambient, ubiquitous, symposium, intelligence
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 3540858660
ISBN-13: 9783540858669

Author: Dale R. Patrick
Publisher: Fairmont Pre
Keywords: systems, distribution, electrical
Published: 2008-12-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 088173599X
ISBN-13: 9780881735994

Comprehensive in scope, this book, now in its fully updated second edition, takes an applications-oriented approach to electrical distribution systems. All critical aspects of power production, distribution, control, conversion and measurement are presented. The authors place emphasis on real-world applications, examining electrical distribution and associated system operation from a user’s or technician’s point of view. The use of an ‘electrical power systems’ model facilitates the reader’s comprehensive understanding of electrical distribution, utilizing power dist

Author: Jacques Ranciere
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: writing, politics, words, flesh
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2004-07-09
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 080474078X
ISBN-13: 9780804740784

This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty and immensely erudite, Jacques Rancière leads the critical reader through a maze of arrivals toward the moment, perhaps always suspended, when the word finds its flesh. That is what he, a valiant and good-humored companion to these texts, goes questing for through seven essays examining a wide variety of fami

Authors:Gerhard Dangelmayr, Iuliana Oprea,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: series, science, nonlinear, special, theme, proceedings, issues, scientific, patterns, bifurcation, dissipative, systems, world, dynamics
Number of Pages: 389
Published: 2004-11-28
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 9812389466
ISBN-13: 9789812389466

Understanding the spontaneous formation and dynamics of spatiotemporal patterns in dissipative nonequilibrium systems is one of the major challenges in nonlinear science. This collection of expository papers and advanced research articles, written by leading experts, provides an overview of the state of the art. The topics include new approaches to the mathematical characterization of spatiotemporal complexity, with special emphasis on the role of symmetry, as well as analysis and experiments of patterns in a remarkable variety of applied fields such as magnetoconvection, liquid crystals, gran

Authors:Mattia Frasca, Paolo Arena, Luigi Fortuna,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: series, scientific, nonlinear, science, vol, world, systems, inspired, emergent, control, locomotion, bio
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-12
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 9812389199
ISBN-13: 9789812389190

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks. It presents a general methodology for the control of bio-inspired robots and several case studies, as well as describes a new approach to motion control and the related circuit architecture. Bio-inspired Emergent Control of Locomotion Systems provides researchers with a guide to the fundamentals of the topics. Moreover, neuro-biologists and physiologists can use the book as a starting point to design artificial structures for testing their bi