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Record Nr.

UNINA9910688265703321

Titolo

Advances in Fusion Energy Research / / Bruno Carpentieri, Aamir Shahzad, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (180 pages)

Disciplina

539.764

Soggetti

Nuclear fusion

Controlled fusion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introductory Chapter: Large Eddy Simulation for Turbulence Modeling -- 2. An Effective H2-LU Preconditioner for Iterative Solution of MQS Integral-Based Formulation P -- 3. Large Scale Simulations for Dust Acoustic Waves in Weakly Coupled Dusty Plasmas -- 4. Future Particle Accelerators -- 5. Faster Fusion Power from Spherical Tokamaks with High-Temperature Superconductors -- 6. Some Research Method about Superconducting Magnet Systems of TOKAMAK -- 7. Main Challenges of Heating Plasma with Waves at the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency (ICRF) -- 8. Charged Particle Beam Injection into Magnetically Confined Plasmas -- 9. Decoupling Techniques for Coupled PDE Models in Fluid Dynamics.

Sommario/riassunto

Fusion power may offer a long-term energy supply with an uninterrupted power delivery, a high power-generation density, and no greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to preventing the worst effects of climate change and making an enduring contribution to future energy supply. However, the intense conditions inside a fusion power plant (extreme temperatures and high magnetic fields necessary for nuclear fusion) call for addressing several potential problems. These include the development of new materials with extremely high heat tolerances and low enough vapor pressure and the design of mechanical structures that can withstand the electromagnetic force generated as well as feedback controllers to measure and counteract the unstable modes of evolution of the plasma, to name a few. The



future of nuclear fusion as an efficient alternative energy source depends largely on techniques that enable us to control these instabilities. Mathematical modelling and physical experiments attempt to overcome some of the hindrances posed by these complexities. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in this fascinating and critically important field of pure and applied physics, mathematics, and engineering, presenting some of the most recent developments in theory, modelling, algorithms, experiments, and applications.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810849403321

Titolo

50 voices of disbelief : why we are atheists / / edited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009

ISBN

9786613204646

9781444357653

1444357654

9781283204644

1283204649

9781444307986

1444307983

9781444307993

1444307991

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackfordRussell <1954->

SchüklenkUdo

Disciplina

211.8

Soggetti

Atheists

Atheism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

50 Voices of Disbelief; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Now



More Important than Ever - Voices of Reason; Unbelievable!; My ""Bye Bull"" Story; How Benevolent Is God? An Argumentfrom Suffering to Atheism; A Deal-Breaker; Why Am I a Nonbeliever? - I Wonder . . .; Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God; Religious Belief and Self-Deception; The Coming of Disbelief; What I Believe; Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God; How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science

A Magician Looks at ReligionConfessions of a Kindergarten Leper; Beyond Disbelief; An Ambivalent Nonbelief; Why Not?; Godless Cosmology; Unanswered Prayers; Beyond Faith and Opinion; Could It Be Pretty Obvious There's No God?; Atheist, Obviously; Why I am Not a Believer; Evil and Me; Who's Unhappy?; Reasons to be Faithless; Three Stages of Disbelief; Born Again, Briefly; Cold Comfort; The Accidental Exorcist; Atheist Out of the Foxhole; The Unconditional Love of Reality; Antinomies; Giving Up Ghosts and Gods; Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist; No Gods, Please!

Welcome Me Back to the World of the ThinkingKicking Religion Goodbye . . .; On Credenda; ""Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key; Imagine No Religion; Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative; Why I Am NOT a Theist; When the Hezbollah Came to My School; Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above; Gods Inside; Why Morality Doesn't Need Religion; Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism; My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism; Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs

Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and GodAbout the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals such as Peter Singer, Susan Blackmore, and A.C. Grayling, novelists, such as Joe Haldeman, and heavyweight philosophers of religion, including Graham Oppy and Michael TooleyContributions range from rigorous philosophical