1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969805403321

Autore

Roland Charles G

Titolo

Long night's journey into day : prisoners of war in the Far East, 1941-1945 / / Charles G. Roland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786610943173

9781554587766

155458776X

9781280943171

1280943173

9780889209428

0889209421

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Disciplina

940.54/7252

Soggetti

Prisoners of war - Health and hygiene - Japan

Prisoners of war - China - Hong Kong

Prisoners of war - Japan

World War, 1939-1945 - Medical care - Japan

World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese

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

Contents; Illustrations and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Hong Kong Chronology; 1. Hong Kong before 8 December 1941; 2. The Eighteen-Day War: 8-25 December 1941; 3. The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hospitals; 4. Prisoner-of-War Life in Hong Kong; 5. Trying to Cope with Too Little Food; 6. In Sickness, Rarely in Health: Life and Death in the Camps and Hospitals; 7. The Overseas Drafts; 8. POW Camps in the Japanese Home Islands; 9. Less than Perfect Soldiers; 10. The Journey Ends-But It Never Does; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity.     Long Night's Journey into



Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book.     Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriber

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019755303321

Autore

Hervouet Jean-Michel

Titolo

Hydrodynamics of free surface flows : modelling with the finite element method / / Jean-Michel Hervouet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2007

ISBN

9786610900831

9781280900839

1280900830

9780470319628

0470319623

9780470319635

0470319631

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

532.50151

Soggetti

Finite element method

Hydrodynamics - Data processing

Hydrodynamics - Mathematical models

Hydrodynamics

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

Hydrodynamics of Free Surface Flows; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of plates; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Twenty years of development at EDF; 1.2 Some smoother pebbles...; 1.2.1 Saint-Venant equations; 1.2.2 Navier-Stokes equations; 1.2.3 Finite elements techniques and optimization; 2 Equations of free surface hydrodynamics; 2.1 Notations and concepts in geometry; 2.2 Free



surface Navier-Stokes equations; 2.2.1 Non-hydrostatic Navier-Stokes equations; 2.2.2 Boundary conditions; 2.2.3 Hydrostatic pressure and the Boussinesq approximation

2.2.4 Source terms and body forces2.2.5 Navier-Stokes equations with sigma transform; 2.2.6 Tracer equations in 3 dimensions; 2.3 Saint-Venant equations; 2.3.1 Presentation and brief review; 2.3.2 Hypotheses, approximations and calculation rules; 2.3.3 Depth-averaging Navier-Stokes equations; 2.3.4 Different forms of equations; 2.3.5 The characteristics curves; 2.3.6 Notions on hydraulic jumps; 2.3.7 Saint-Venant equations in Mercator projection; 2.3.8 Saint-Venant equations with porosity; 2.3.9 Boussinesq equations; 2.3.10 Serre equations

2.3.11 Source terms and body forces in two dimensions2.3.12 Boundary conditions in 2D; 2.3.13 Tracer equation in two dimensions; 2.4 Modelling of turbulence and dispersion; 2.4.1 Reynolds stress; 2.4.2 Zero-equation models; 2.4.3 Turbulence stress on the walls; 2.4.4 Equations of the k-e model; 2.4.5 Other models; 3 Principles of the finite element method; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Interpolation in finite elements; 3.3 Variational principle; 4 Resolution of the Saint-Venant equations; 4.1 A glance at the existing methods; 4.1.1 Main properties of a (good) numerical scheme

4.1.2 Finite difference schemes4.1.3 Finite volume schemes for hyperbolic equations; 4.1.4 Kinetic schemes; 4.1.5 Finite element schemes; 4.2 Overall view of the Telemac-2D algorithm; 4.3 Fractional steps method; 4.4 Advection stage using the method of characteristics; 4.5 Propagation, diffusion, source terms; 4.5.1 Time discretization; 4.5.2 Space discretization; 4.5.3 Variational formulation; 4.5.4 Natural boundary conditions; 4.5.5 Sources and sinks; 4.5.6 Matrix form of the system; 4.6 Radiation conditions; 4.7 Resolution of the Boussinesq equations

4.8 Resolution of k-e model equations in 2D4.8.1 Advection step; 4.8.2 Production, diffusion, source terms; 4.9 Solving the tracer equation in 2D; 4.10 Laws of conservation in 2D; 4.10.1 Mass conservation of the fluid; 4.10.2 Conservation of the tracer; 4.10.3 Head and momentum conservation; 4.10.4 Conservation of energy; 4.11 The treatment of uncovered beds; 4.11.1 Option 1: correction of the free surface gradient; 4.11.2 Option 2: masking of exposed elements; 4.12 Pseudo wave equation; 4.13 Some validation test cases; 4.13.1 Test of a lake at rest

4.13.2 Rapid flow over a weir with a hydraulic jump downstream

Sommario/riassunto

A definitive guide for accurate state-of-the-art modelling of free surface flows Understanding the dynamics of free surface flows is the starting point of many environmental studies, impact studies, and waterworks design. Typical applications, once the flows are known, are water quality, dam impact and safety, pollutant control, and sediment transport. These studies used to be done in the past with scale models, but these are now being replaced by numerical simulation performed by software suites called "hydro-informatic systems". The Telemac system is the leading software package wor