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Fieguth, Paul |
An Introduction to Complex Systems |
I11679 |
2021 |
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Webb, Gary |
Magnetohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics: Action Principles and Conservation Laws |
I10016 |
2018 |
eBook |
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Bunde, Armin |
The Science of Disasters |
I11381 |
2002 |
eBook |
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| 14 |
Zeytounian, Radyadour Kh |
Asymptotic Modelling of Fluid Flow Phenomena |
I10915 |
2002 |
eBook |
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| 15 |
Gyr, A |
Sedimentation and Sediment Transport |
I10715 |
2003 |
eBook |
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Butterworth, Frank M |
Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change 2 |
I10533 |
2001 |
eBook |
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Stankovski, Tomislav |
Tackling the Inverse Problem for Non-Autonomous Systems |
I08382 |
2014 |
eBook |
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Weiss, Jeffrey B |
Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows |
I08273 |
2008 |
eBook |
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Flor, Jan-Bert |
Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows |
I08175 |
2010 |
eBook |
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Albeverio, Sergio |
Extreme Events in Nature and Society |
I07750 |
2006 |
eBook |
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| Title | An Introduction to Complex Systems : Society, Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics |
| Author(s) | Fieguth, Paul |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XIV, 463 p. 266 illus., 247 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Complex Systems lie at the heart of a variety of large-scale phenomena of great significance - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty, pandemics - and this text uses these case studies as motivations and contexts to explore complex systems and related topics of nonlinear dynamics and power-law statistics. Although detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can be challenging, the consequences of a system being nonlinear, power-law, or complex are in fact quite accessible. This book blends a tutorial approach to the mathematical aspects of complex systems together with a complementary narrative on the global/ecological/societal implications of such systems. Nearly all engineering undergraduate courses focus on mathematics and systems which are small scale, linear, and Gaussian. Unfortunately there is not a single large-scale ecological or social phenomenon that is scalar, linear, and Gaussian. This book offers insights to better understand the large-scale problems facing the world and to realize that these cannot be solved by a single, narrow academic field or perspective. Instead, the book seeks to emphasize understanding, concepts, and ideas, in a way that is mathematically rigorous, so that the concepts do not feel vague, but not so technical that the mathematics get in the way. The book is intended for students in technical domains such as engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, and environmental studies. This second edition adds nine new examples, over 30 additional problems, 50 additional figures, and three new chapters offering a detailed study of system decoupling, extensive solutions to chapter problems, and a timely discussion on the complex systems challenges associated with COVID-19 and pandemics in general |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030631680 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. Earth System Sciences
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
7. Physical geography
8. PHYSICS
9. SYSTEM THEORY
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| Title | Magnetohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics: Action Principles and Conservation Laws |
| Author(s) | Webb, Gary |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XIV, 301 p. 22 illus., 16 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This text focuses on conservation laws in magnetohydrodynamics, gasdynamics and hydrodynamics. A grasp of new conservation laws is essential in fusion and space plasmas, as well as in geophysical fluid dynamics; they can be used to test numerical codes, or to reveal new aspects of the underlying physics, e.g., by identifying the time history of the fluid elements as an important key to understanding fluid vorticity or in investigating the stability of steady flows. The ten Galilean Lie point symmetries of the fundamental action discussed in this book give rise to the conservation of energy, momentum, angular momentum and center of mass conservation laws via Noether???s first theorem. The advected invariants are related to fluid relabeling symmetries ??? so-called diffeomorphisms associated with the Lagrangian map ??? and are obtained by applying the Euler-Poincare approach to Noether???s second theorem. The book discusses several variants of helicity including kinetic helicity, cross helicity, magnetic helicity, Ertels??? theorem and potential vorticity, the Hollman invariant, and the Godbillon Vey invariant. The book develops the non-canonical Hamiltonian approach to MHD using the non-canonical Poisson bracket, while also refining the multisymplectic approach to ideal MHD and obtaining novel nonlocal conservation laws. It also briefly discusses Anco and Bluman???s direct method for deriving conservation laws. A range of examples is used to illustrate topological invariants in MHD and fluid dynamics, including the Hopf invariant, the Calugareanu invariant, the Taylor magnetic helicity reconnection hypothesis for magnetic fields in highly conducting plasmas, and the magnetic helicity of Alfv??n simple waves, MHD topological solitons, and the Parker Archimedean spiral magnetic field. The Lagrangian map is used to obtain a class of solutions for incompressible MHD. The Aharonov-Bohm interpretation of magnetic helicity and cross helicity is discussed. In closing, examples of magnetosonic N-waves are used to illustrate the role of the wave number and group velocity concepts for MHD waves. This self-contained and pedagogical guide to the fundamentals will benefit postgraduate-level newcomers and seasoned researchers alike |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319725116 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
4. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
5. Fluid- and Aerodynamics
6. FLUIDS
7. GEOPHYSICS
8. Geophysics/Geodesy
9. PLASMA (IONIZED GASES)
10. PLASMA PHYSICS
11. SPACE SCIENCES
12. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
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| Title | The Science of Disasters : Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes |
| Author(s) | Bunde, Armin;Kropp, J??rgen;Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. |
| Description | XX, 453 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Are there universal laws governing the persistence of weather, and is it possible to predict climate transitions as generated by natural or man-made perturbations? How can one quantify the roller-coaster dynamics of stock markets and anticipate mega-crashes? Can we diagnose the health condition of patients from heartbeat time-series analysis which may even form the basis for infarct prevention? This book tackles these questions by applying advanced methods from statistical physics and related fields to all types of non-linear dynamics prone to disaster. The transdisciplinary analysis is organized in some dozen review articles written by world-class scientists |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642562570 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOPHYSICS
8. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
9. Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
10. MEDICINE
11. Medicine/Public Health, general
12. Sociophysics
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistics for Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance
15. Statistics??
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| Title | Asymptotic Modelling of Fluid Flow Phenomena |
| Author(s) | Zeytounian, Radyadour Kh |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2002. |
| Description | XVIII, 550 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | for the fluctuations around the means but rather fluctuations, and appearing in the following incompressible system of equations: on any wall; at initial time, and are assumed known. This contribution arose from discussion with J. P. Guiraud on attempts to push forward our last co-signed paper (1986) and the main idea is to put a stochastic structure on fluctuations and to identify the large eddies with a part of the probability space. The Reynolds stresses are derived from a kind of Monte-Carlo process on equations for fluctuations. Those are themselves modelled against a technique, using the Guiraud and Zeytounian (1986). The scheme consists in a set of like equations, considered as random, because they mimic the large eddy fluctuations. The Reynolds stresses are got from stochastic averaging over a family of their solutions. Asymptotics underlies the scheme, but in a rather loose hidden way. We explain this in relation with homogenizati- localization processes (described within the ??3. 4 ofChapter 3). Ofcourse the mathematical well posedness of the scheme is not known and the numerics would be formidable! Whether this attempt will inspire researchers in the field of highly complex turbulent flows is not foreseeable and we have hope that the idea will prove useful |
| ISBN,Price | 9780306483868 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2. Classical and Continuum Physics
3. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
4. Continuum physics
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
8. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
9. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
10. Fluid- and Aerodynamics
11. FLUIDS
12. Mathematical and Computational Engineering
13. MECHANICS
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| Title | Sedimentation and Sediment Transport : Proceedings of the Symposium held in Monte Verit??, Switzerland, from September 2nd ??? to September 6th, 2002 |
| Author(s) | Gyr, A;Kinzelbach, Wolfgang |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2003. |
| Description | X, 271 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It is evident, that for a number of ecological and technical problems in rivers and lakes a better knowledge of sediment transport and sedimentation is needed together with the ability to predict and simulate sediment behaviour. On the other hand, a stagnation of research in these topics could be observed in the last decades. At the Symposium an attempt was made to present new results in mathematics and natural sciences relevant for the sediment problem. New strategies were discussed to tackle the complexity of the problem. Basic theoretical research and laboratory experiments alone are incomplete without a feedback from field observations and measurements. For that reason well-known researchers from both basic and engineering sciences were invited. Turbulence, non-local phenomena, stability, interaction, feedback systems, self-organization, two-phase flow and chaotic processes, numerical simulations as well as measurement techniques and field results were the keywords of the Symposium. This proceedings are a good source for those interested in the state of the art |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401703475 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Continuum Physics
2. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
3. Continuum physics
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
7. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
8. GEOMORPHOLOGY
9. MECHANICS
10. Sedimentology
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| Title | Biomonitors and Biomarkers as Indicators of Environmental Change 2 : A Handbook |
| Author(s) | Butterworth, Frank M;Gunatilaka, Amara;Gonsebatt, Mar??a Eugenia |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer US, 2001. |
| Description | XI, 508 p. 112 illus., 2 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Monitoring the environment is absolutely essential if we are to identify hazards to human health, to assess environmental cleanup efforts, and to prevent further degradation of the ecosystem. Biomonitors and biomarkers combined with chemical monitoring offer the only approach to making these assessments. Based on an International Association of Great Lakes Research conference, this book is intended for researchers who want to incorporate new and different technologies in their development of specifically-crafted monitors; students who are learning the field of biomonitoring; and regulatory agencies that want to consider newer technologies to replace inadequate and less powerful test regimes |
| ISBN,Price | 9781461513056 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Biotechnology
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. ECOLOGY
5. Ecology??
6. Ecotoxicology
7. ENVIRONMENT
8. Environment, general
9. Environmental engineering
10. Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
11. Environmental Science and Engineering
12. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
13. Waste management
14. Waste Management/Waste Technology
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| Title | Tackling the Inverse Problem for Non-Autonomous Systems : Application to the Life Sciences |
| Author(s) | Stankovski, Tomislav |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014. |
| Description | XV, 135 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This??thesis presents a new method for following evolving interactions between coupled oscillatory systems of the kind that abound in nature. Examples range from the subcellular level, to ecosystems, through climate dynamics, to the movements of planets and stars.?? Such systems mutually interact, adjusting their internal clocks, and may correspondingly move between synchronized and non-synchronized states. The thesis describes a way of using Bayesian inference to exploit the presence of random fluctuations, thus analyzing these processes in unprecedented detail.?? It first develops the basic theory of interacting oscillators whose frequencies are non-constant, and then applies it to the human heart and lungs as an example. Their coupling function can be used to follow with great precision the transitions into and out of synchronization. The method described has the potential to illuminate the ageing process as well as to improve diagnostics in cardiology, anesthesiology and neuroscience, and yields insights into a wide diversity of natural processes |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319007533 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Bioinformatics??
2. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
3. Computational biology??
4. Computer Appl. in Life Sciences
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
9. Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
10. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
11. PROBABILITIES
12. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
13. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
14. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
15. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Transport and Mixing in Geophysical Flows |
| Author(s) | Weiss, Jeffrey B;Provenzale, Antonello |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. |
| Description | IX, 262 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume collects a number of theoretical and experimental lectures on various aspects of transport and mixing of active and passive particles in geophysical flows. Transports in fluids can be approached from two complementary perspectives: in the Eulerian view of mixing, the focus is on the concentration field - advection stetches and folds the concentration field and sharpens the gradients, while diffusion smoothes the field. In the Langrangian view, fluid parcels are followed around as they move with the flow, experiencing chaotic or stochastic motion. Both pictures are considered in the present lectures, with passive particles carried freely by the flow and reactive particles, where chemically or biologically induced reactions change the character of the particles |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540752158 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
5. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
6. Fluid- and Aerodynamics
7. FLUIDS
8. GEOPHYSICS
9. Geophysics/Geodesy
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| Title | Fronts, Waves and Vortices in Geophysical Flows |
| Author(s) | Flor, Jan-Bert |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. |
| Description | IX, 192 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth???s oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales. The transition from one state to another, such as in unbalanced or adjustment flows, involves the generation of waves as well as the interaction of coherent structures with these waves. This book presents a fluid mechanics perspective to the dynamics of fronts and vortices and their interaction with waves in geophysical flows. It provides a basic physical background for modeling coherent structures in a geophysical context, and it gives essential information on advanced topics such as spontaneous wave emission and wavemomentum transfer in geophysical flows. Based on a set of lectures by leading specialists, this text is targeted at graduate students, researchers and engineers in geophysics and environmental fluid mechanics |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642115875 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Engineering Fluid Dynamics
5. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS
6. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
7. FLUID MECHANICS
8. Fluid- and Aerodynamics
9. FLUIDS
10. GEOPHYSICS
11. Geophysics/Geodesy
12. OCEANOGRAPHY
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| Title | Extreme Events in Nature and Society |
| Author(s) | Albeverio, Sergio;Jentsch, Volker;Kantz, Holger |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. |
| Description | XVI, 352 p. 122 illus., 7 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540286110 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Applications of Mathematics
2. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ECONOMIC THEORY
8. Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
9. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
10. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
11. Math. Appl. in Environmental Science
12. METEOROLOGY
13. PHYSICS
14. Physics, general
15. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
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