Bilingual thematic dictionaries [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Stark

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464242203321
• Autore: Stark M. P (Martin P.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston, : Walter de Gruyter, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-43034-7; 9786613430342; 3-11-025889-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (500 p.)
• Collana: Lexicographica
• Classificazione: ET 580
• Disciplina: 413.028
• Soggetti: Dictionaries, Polyglot; Linguistics; Electronic books.
• 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: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature and Development of the Bilingual Thematic Dictionary as a Hybrid Lexicographic Genre -- 3. Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 4. Approaches to Evaluating the Usefulness of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries -- 5. The Compilation of Bilingual Thematic Dictionaries: Choices and Recommendations -- 6. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Appendix 1) A Checklist of Monolingual Learner's Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 2) A Checklist of Thematic Dictionary Features and Choices -- Appendix 3) A Checklist of Existing BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 4) A Sample of the EFL Questionnaire Version A (for French Learners of English) -- Appendix 5) Location Guessing Experiment: List of BTD Categories -- Appendix 6) Location Guessing Experiment: List of 10 Words -- Appendix 7) Search Report Experiment: Answer/Search Report Sheet -- Appendix 8) A Cumulative Checklist of Actual and Potential BTD Features and Choices -- Appendix 9) Location Guessing Experiment: Guessed Locations for Each Word -- Appendix 10) Location Guessing Experiment: No. of Correct Guesses for each Word -- Appendix 11) Location Guessing Experiment: Correct Answers and Participants' Answers -- Abstract -- ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is concerned with bilingual thematic dictionaries (BTDs). The three chief aims of the research project are: 1) to identify the characteristic features of the bilingual thematic dictionary, 2) to gauge its usefulness, and 3) to make suggestions as to how it could be improved. Various approaches are adopted in order to reveal the nature of the BTD. The typological approach considers the lexicographic genres (bilingual, thematic, and pedagogical) which have been combined to create this hybrid reference work. Particular attention is paid to the BTD's immediate forerunner and closest lexicographic relative: the monolingual thematic learner's dictionary. Detailed textual analyses of contemporary thematic dictionaries identify the characteristic features of the macrostructure, microstructure, and other components from a structural perspective. In order to evaluate the usefulness of the BTD features identified, the textual analyses are supplemented by three pieces of user research involving a questionnaire (to elicit learners' opinions), a test (on the effectiveness of the access structure), and an experiment (to discover how a learner uses a BTD).

Introduction to theoretical and computational fluid dynamics [[electronic resource] /] / C. Pozrikidis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826848503321
• Autore: Pozrikidis C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-65679-5; 0-19-990912-1
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxix, 1243 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 532/.05
• Soggetti: Fluid dynamics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 1997.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1200-1224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Kinematic structure of a flow -- 2. Kinematic analysis of a flow -- 3. Stresses, the equation of motion, and vorticity transport -- 4. Hydrostatics -- 5. Exact solutions -- 6. Flow at low Reynolds numbers -- 7. Irrotational flow -- 8. Boundary-layer analysis -- 9. Hydrodynamic stability -- 10. Boundary-integral methods for potential flow -- 11. Vortex motion -- 12. Finite-difference methods for convection-diffusion -- 13. Finite-difference methods for incompressible Newtonian flow -- A Mathematical supplement -- B Primer of numerical methods -- C FDLIB software library -- D User Guide of directory 08 stab of FDLIB on hydrodynamic stab -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the fundamental principles and equations governing the motion of incompressible Newtonian fluids, and simultaneously introduces analytical and numerical methods for solving a broad range of pertinent problems. Topics include an in-depth discussion of kinematics, elements of differential geometry of lines and surfaces, vortex dynamics, properties and computation of interfacial shapes in hydrostatics, exact solutions, flow at low Reynolds numbers, interfacial flows, hydrodynamic stability, boundary-layer analysis, vortex motion, boundary-integral methods for potential and Stokes flow, principles of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and finite-difference methods for Navier-Stokes flow. The discourse includes classical and original topics, as well as derivations accompanied by ; solved and unsolved problems that illustrate the theoretical results and explain the implementation of the numerical methods. Appendices provide a wealth of information and establish the necessary mathematical and numerical framework. A unique and comprehensive synthesis of the essential aspects of the discipline, this volume serves as an ideal textbook in several graduate courses on theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, applied mathematics, and scientific computing. The material is an indispensable resource for professionals and researchers in various fields of science, chemical, mechanical, biomechanical, civil and aerospace engineering.