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This book provides a comprehensive exposition of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers including the fundamental mathematical theory, structure of equilibrium boundary layers, and extensive surveys of Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS), Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and experiments.

This book explores the static and dynamical behaviours such as bending, buckling, and vibration of functionally graded structures using existing and new theories. The text presents a holistic examination of functionally graded structures, providing invaluable knowledge for professionals, researchers, and educators alike, while contributing significantly to the advancements of the said challenging field.

This book examines foundational theories in chemical kinetics, taking a hands-on approach that bridges from theory to application. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, this book focuses on theories that provide insights into basic physical principles that govern the rates of chemical reactions both in the gas phase and in solution.

This book covers the uses, fundamental concepts, and basic operation of EIT from the perspective of tactile sensor applications, making it a helpful text for students and newcomers to the field.

This book focuses on the theory, development, novel techniques, and smart solutions in data analytics for intelligent systems that capture behaviours in complex environments. The book will provide beginners with a single platform to explore a variety of recent data analytics techniques for different types of data - images, videos, numerical etc. for better decision-making and problem solving for a range of applications such as computer vision, biomedical engineering, image processing, speech signal processing, intelligent systems, fault analysis and detection. In today's world, incorporation of artificial intelligence with machine learning, ensemble learning, deep learning, transfer learning and reinforcement learning has a variety of applications. This book focuses on the various advanced techniques in data analytics that can be used in different domains to solve real-time problems.Key Features: Features a wide range of data analytics methods for Intelligent Systems in one resource.Focus on applications.Includes application in a broad range of fields.

This research and reference text presents the fundamentals of the engineering of District Heating and Cooling, a system for that has received an increasing amount of investment and has the potential to contribute significantly to the mitigation of climate change

This book aims to make very important topics in the physics of cancer such as mechanical characterization of cells using biophysical methods visible to the research community, with the goal of ensuring these special techniques receive more attention from the scientific community and are developed accordingly.

This book reviews the fundamental and applied issues regarding the synthesis and properties of nanomaterials, together with their use in technological applications covering the generation, storage, and transformation of energy, including sustainability concerns.

The book explains to the reader the necessary considerations and modelling ideas required for the successful design of optical imaging systems incorporating diffractive surfaces.

The gap between the required and available cancer care in the world widened in the last decade for the majority of cancer patients. This book presents the need for global approaches and campaign for the scientific exploration of avenues to increase affordability of better value cancer treatment for millions of cancer patients in the world.

Modern Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information surveys the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics against the backdrop of its use in modern science applications. Covering several topics in modern quantum mechanics and quantum information that do not appear in older texts, this authoritative and expansive survey of the field is ideal for advanced researchers, upper undergraduate and graduate students.

This book provides an introduction to our current knowledge of stellar magnetic activity. It is intended for graduate or advanced undergraduate students or researchers new to the field. Starting with the Sun, it extends to stars of all masses and ages. Topics include the production and measurement of the fields themselves, their effects on the stellar atmospheres, the diagnostics we use to understand them, and the effects of the magnetic activity on the star and its surrounds over time. This field is rapidly advancing, and the book will serve as an initial resource for those new to the area, or as an overview for those already involved who want a wider or historical perspective, along with suggestions as to which directions that new research might take.Key Features: Provides simple physical explanations of the diagnostics used to understand stellar activityTakes a historical approach to the subject, including a look to the futureRefers to milestone articles, with an explanation of their importanceContains numerous diagrams, images, and videosUses simple language to convey the science

This book covers recent technological developments and advanced aspects of optical transmission techniques, focusing on the fundamental mechanics relevant to radiofrequency and optical engineers. It is ideal for engineers, upper level undergraduate and graduate level students in electrical engineering, optical engineering, wireless communication and electromagnetics.

Introducing battery fundamentals, this book explores state-of-the-art characterisation methods currently employed by the energy storage community. With a focus on Li-ion batteries, the text is ideal for researchers and students interested in the materials and characterization methods for batteries, including those without a background in electro- or solid-state chemistry.

This first volume of 'The Physics of Sound and Music: A complete course text' is a textbook providing a complete resource to accompany undergraduate courses on the physics of sound and music. It contains all the material needed for a one semester, 14 week, four-credit hour-long course, and is supplemented by the lab manual in volume two of this two-volume set.

This book gives an introduction to the physics of nuclear medicine including the principles of radiation detection physics, methods used in radionuclide therapy and techniques to produce images for diagnosis and intraoperative monitoring.

A biomaterial is defined as a substance that has been engineered to take a form which, alone or as part of a complex system, is used to direct, by control of interactions with components of living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostics procedures. The modern field of biomaterials combine medicine, biology, physics, and chemistry and more recent influences from tissue engineering and materials science. This book widens the scope to a new generation of biomaterials classified according to morphology; particles, capsules, microbubbles and fibres, useful for healthcare.