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Illustrates what a user must know to ensure the optimal application of computational procedures - particularly the Finite Element Method - to important problems associated with heat conduction, incompressible viscous flows, and convection heat transfer. This book presents realistic, applied examples of FEM in thermal and fluid design analysis.

Noted for its practical, accessible approach to senior and graduate-level engineering mechanics, Plates and Shells: Theory and Analysis is a long-time bestselling text on the subjects of elasticity and stress analysis.

Suitable for students and engineers who wish to understand combustion fundamentals and apply them to engineering problems, this book includes physical explanations along with the mathematical relations and equations so that the principles can be applied to solve real world combustion and pollution problems.

Demonstrates how the built-in functions of MATLAB[registered] can be used to solve systems of linear equations, ODEs, roots of transcendental equations, statistical problems, optimization problems, control systems problems, and stress analysis problems. It also discusses the finite element method and mechanical controls.

Presents a summary of the equations governing composite laminates and offers practical methods for analyzing the common types of composite structural elements. This book features practical analysis using Designing Advanced Composites (DAC), a PC-based software on the subject. It is suitable for graduate courses in mechanical engineering.

This textbook presents basic programming techniques consistent with the MATLAB software package. It also discusses numerical and analytical concepts applicable to electrical engineering. The text contains many sample MATLAB programs that provide guidance for student completing the assigned projects. Case studies relate concepts presented in the chapters to engineering in practice. The chapters address such topics as Simulink, curve fitting, optimization, partial differential equations, laplace transforms, control systems, signal processing, differential equations, transcendental equations, and numerical integration. A complete solutions manual is available for qualified adopters.

This book incorporates the fundamentals into analytical methods, modeling approaches, numerical methods, experimental procedures, and design techniques throughout. Concepts, approaches, and tools are demonstrated through a large number of examples and case studies. It is an outgrowth of the author's experience in teaching courses in mechanics of materials, statics, dynamics, modeling, vibration, instrumentation, testing, design, and control. The practical considerations, design issues, engineering techniques, and applications, and the simplified snapshot-style presentation of advanced theory and concepts, make this a useful reference for professionals as well.

Presents an introduction to the concepts of ordinary and partial boundary value problems. This book contains essential functional analytical concepts, explaining its subject without excessive abstraction. It includes such topics as differential equations, classical theory of partial differential equations, and Laplace and Poisson equations.