Screen LibraryPractical applied mathematics：modelling, analysis, approximation
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| Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Cambridge texts in applied mathematics |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 326 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521842743 0521603692 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | O29 |
| CLC: |
O29 O175 |
| Call Number: | O29/H862 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-320) and index. The basics of modelling -- Units, dimensions and dimensional analysis -- Nondimensionalisation -- Case studies: hair modelling and cable laying -- Case study: the thermistor (1) -- Case study: electrostatic painting (1) -- Partial differential equations -- Case study: traffic modelling -- The delta function and other distributions -- Theory of distributions -- Case study: the pantograph -- Asymptotic expansions -- Regular perturbation expansions -- Case study: electrostatic painting (2) -- Case study: piano tuning -- Boundary layers -- Case study: the thermistor (2) -- 'Lubrication theory' a |