Edizione	[1st ed. 2013.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (1430 p.)
Disciplina	330 620 620.00951 650
Soggetto topico	Business Management science Engineering Business and Management, general Engineering, general
ISBN	3-642-38433-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Engineering Economy and Cost Analysis -- Reliability Engineering and project management -- Safety, Security and Risk Management -- Areas of engineering education.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910438084203321

Autore	Brekhovskikh Leonid M
Edizione	[1st ed. 1990.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1990
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (X, 240 p.)
Disciplina	534/.2
Collana	Springer Series on Wave Phenomena
Soggetto topico	Acoustics Geophysics Oceanography Lasers Photonics Engineering Geophysics/Geodesy Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices Engineering, general
ISBN	3-642-52369-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1. Basic Equations for Wave Processes in Fluids and Solids -- 1.1 Sound in Layered Fluids -- 1.2 Harmonic Waves -- 1.3 Elastic Waves in Isotropic Solids -- 2. Plane Waves in Discretely Layered Fluids -- 2.1 Inhomogeneous Plane Waves. Energy of Sound Waves -- 2.2 Reflection at the Interface of Two Homogeneous Media -- 2.3 Locally Reacting Surfaces -- 2.4 Reflection from a Plane Layer -- 2.5 Reflection and Transmission Coefficients for an Arbitrary Number of Layers -- 2.6 Moving Layers. Impedance of Harmonic Waves in Moving Media -- 3. Monochromatic Plane-Wave Reflection from Continuously Layered Media -- 3.1 General Relations -- 3.2 Solvable Profiles k(z) from the Confluent Hypergeometric Equation -- 3.3 Solvable Profiles Obtained from the Hypergeometric Equation -- 3.4 Plane-Wave Reflection from an Epstein Layer -- 3.5 Reflection of a Plane Wave from a Half-Space with a Linear Law for the Squared Refraction Index -- 3.6 Other Cases with Exact Solutions for Normal Incidence -- 3.7 Exact Solutions for Media with Continuous Stratification of Sound Velocity, Density, and Flow Velocity -- 4. Plane-Wave Reflection from the Boundaries of Solids -- 4.1 Plane Waves in Elastic Half-Spaces with a Free Boundary -- 4.2 Reflection from Solid-Solid and Solid-Fluid Interfaces -- 4.3 Reflection from a System of Solid Layers -- 4.4 Surface and “Leaky” Waves -- 5. Reflection of Sound Pulses -- 5.1 General Relations. Law of Conservation of Integrated Pulse -- 5.2 Change of Pulse Shape upon Total Internal Reflection from a Boundary Between Two Homogeneous Media -- 5.3 Total Reflection of a Pulse in Continuously Layered Media -- 6. Universal Properties of the Plane-Wave Reflection and Transmission Coefficients -- 6.1 Symmetry with Respect to Reversion of the Wave Path -- 6.2 Analytic Properties -- 6.3 Nonreflecting Layers -- 7. Acoustic Waves in Absorbing Anisotropic Media -- 7.1 Absorption of Sound -- 7.2 Anisotropic Elastic Media. Gulyaev-Bluestein Waves -- 7.3 Elastic Properties of Finely Layered Media -- 8. Geometrical Acoustics. WKB Approximation -- 8.1 The WKB Approximation and Its Range of Validity -- 8.2 Physical Meaning of the Approximate Solutions -- 8.3 Another Approach to the Ray Acoustics Approximation -- 9. The Sound Field in the Case of Turning Horizons and Resonance Interaction with a Flow -- 9.1 Reference Equation Method -- 9.2 Sound Field in the Vicinity of a Turning Point -- 9.3 Reflection from a “Potential Barrier” -- 9.4 Amplification of Sound in an Inhomogeneous Flow -- 10. Sound Reflection from a Medium with Arbitrarily Varying Parameters -- 10.1 Differential Equations for Reflection Coefficient and Impedance of a Sound Wave -- 10.2 Reflection from a Thin Inhomogeneous Layer -- 10.3 Method of Successive Approximations for Weakly Reflecting Layers -- 10.4 Reflection at Interfaces in Continuously Layered Media -- References.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910480654803321

Edizione	[1st ed. 1999.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XX, 610 p.)
Disciplina	620/.411
Collana	Lecture Notes in Physics
Soggetto topico	Thermodynamics Statistical physics Dynamical systems Engines Machinery Engineering Mechanics Mechanics, Applied Geophysics Complex Systems Engine Technology Engineering, general Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Geophysics/Geodesy
ISBN	3-540-48410-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Some observations on the historical development of conduction heat transfer -- Numerical and experimental investigation on frosting of energy-recovery ventilator -- Melting of unfixed material inside an elliptical capsule -- Experimental study on the critical heat flux of ice accretion along a fine wire immersed in a cold air flow with water spray -- The characteristics of frost growth on parallel plates -- Effect of ultrasonic waves on freezing of supercooled water -- Numerical modeling of dendritic ice crystals -- Measurement of temperature and velocity fields of freezing water using liquid crystal tracers -- Heat transfer enhancement of a direct contact melting process by oscillating motion -- Permeability of an aqueous solution in a state of partial solidification -- Lateral freezing of a porous medium saturated with an aqueous salt solution -- Spontaneous melting of ice in a CaCl2 solution -- An analytic solution prescribing the time-dependent formation of a solid crust inside a convectively cooled plane channel -- Melting heat-transfer characteristics of an inclined ice plate immersed in a hydrophobic liquid -- Plane flow of an ice sheet exhibiting strain-induced anisotropy -- A meso-macro model for the description of induced anisotropy of natural ice, including grain interaction -- Classical mixture models for polythermal ice -- Modelling the ice single-crystal viscoplastic behaviour -- Remarks on self-consistent modelling of polycrystalline ice -- Anisotropic isothermal ice-cap flow with the shallow ice approximation -- Orthotropic viscous model for ice -- Tertiary flow relations for compression and shear components in combined stress tests on ice -- An iterative solution procedure for shallow stokes flows. The shallow ice approximation revisited -- Nested high-resolution modelling of the greenland summit region -- Numerical age computation of the antarctic ice sheet for dating deep ice cores -- Three-dimensional isothermal boundary layer solutions of slow creeping ice flows based on the shallow ice approximation -- A comparison study between two visco-plastic sea-ice models -- Influence of ice accumulation distribution on ice sheet stability -- A computational procedure for instationary temperature-dependent snow creep -- Transformation of the snow crystal to a particle of ice -- Temperature and temperature gradient dependence of snow recrystallization in depth hoar snow -- On creep flow of snow and firn -- Relation of temperature gradient to heat transfer in snow -- Methods of similitude in granular avalanche flows -- Experimental study of gas hydrate formation in porous media -- Electroacoustic technique to study changes in the liquid phase state of frozen soils -- Permeability effects on winter-time natural convection in gravel embankments -- Barothermic effect and temperature regime of frozen soil -- Detecting alpine permafrost using electro-magnetic methods -- Climatic warming and permafrost -- The monitoring and prediction of permafrost temperature, distribution and geocryological processes within russia under global climate changes -- Thermally induced temporal strain variations in rock walls observed at subzero temperatures -- Soil microstructure and the thermodynamic behaviour of permafrost affected soils -- Heat transfer in heat storage arrangements under melting -- Microscale analysis of ice crystals made from aqueous solutions by scanning tunneling microscope -- Development study of a novel tower-style tank for simultaneous storing warm water and ice -- Latent heat storage in a fixed-bed packed with cross-linked polymer particles -- Development of an efficient static-type ice thermal energy storage vessel using a low concentration aqueous solution -- Heat storage for a bus petrol internal-combustion engine -- Heat pumps and heat pipes for applications in cold regions.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910257409203321

Edizione	[1st ed. 2008.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina	530.41
Collana	Advances in Solid State Physics
Soggetto topico	Condensed matter Solid state physics Spectroscopy Microscopy Materials science Superconductivity Superconductors Engineering Condensed Matter Physics Solid State Physics Spectroscopy and Microscopy Materials Science, general Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity Engineering, general
ISBN	3-540-38235-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Quantum Dots -- Single Photons from Single Quantum Dots — New Light for Quantum Information Processing -- Quantum-Dot Spin Qubit and Hyperfine Interaction -- Counting Statistics of Single Electron Transport in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot -- Size-Tunable Exchange Interaction in InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots -- Quantum Dots in Planar Cavities — Single and Entangled Photon Sources -- Molecules and Nanoparticles -- Periodic Structure Formation in Polymer Films with Embedded Gold Nanoparticles -- Proteins and Patients — Magnetic Nanoparticles as Analytic Markers -- Novel Quantum Transport Effects in Single-Molecule Transistors -- Nanowires and 1D Systems -- Growth Evolution and Characterization of PLD Zn(Mg)O Nanowire Arrays -- Spin-Transfer Torques in Single-Crystalline Nanopillars -- Andreev Reflection in Nb-InAs Structures: Phase Coherence, Ballistic Transport and Edge Channels -- Selective Edge Excitation — Inter-Edge Magnetoplasmon Mode and Inter-Edge Spin Diode -- Decoherence of Fermions Subject to a Quantum Bath -- Correlation Effects on Electronic Transport through Dots and Wires -- Optoelectronics -- Ultrafast Dynamics of Optically-Induced Charge and Spin Currents in Semiconductors -- From a Fundamental Understanding of Phase Change Materials to Optimization Rules for Nonvolatile Optical and Electronic Storage -- GaInAs/AlAsSb Quantum Cascade Lasers: A New Approach towards 3-to-5 ?m Semiconductor Lasers -- Thin Films and Materials -- Hydrostatic Pressure Effects in the Magnetocaloric Compounds R5(SixGe1?x )4 -- Magnetoelectric Correlations in Multiferroic Manganites Revealed by Nonlinear Optics -- Domain Wall Formation in Ferromagnetic Layers: An Ab Initio Study -- Domain Wall Spin Structures in 3d Metal Ferromagnetic Nanostructures -- Six Emerging Directions in Sculptured-Thin-Film Research -- Ion Beam Assisted Growth of Sculptured Thin Films: Structure Alignment and Optical Fingerprints -- Organic Thin Film Devices for Displays and Lighting.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910146562003321

Edizione	[1st ed. 2003.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (XIII, 347 p.)
Disciplina	006.3
Collana	Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Soggetto topico	Engineering Artificial intelligence Computer communication systems Software engineering Application software Computers and civilization Engineering, general Artificial Intelligence Computer Communication Networks Software Engineering Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) Computers and Society
ISBN	3-540-36559-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Keynotes -- Software Agents: The Future of Web Services -- Building Automated Negotiators -- Emergence in Cyberspace: Towards the Evolutionary Self-Organizing Enterprise -- Regular Papers -- Requirements Analysis in Tropos: A Self-Referencing Example -- A Mechanism for Dynamic Role Playing -- Agent UML Class Diagrams Revisited -- The Behavior-Oriented Design of Modular Agent Intelligence -- Engineering JADE Agents with the Gaia Methodology -- Designing Peer-to-Peer Applications: An Agent-Oriented Approach -- Introducing Pattern Reuse in the Design of Multi-agent Systems -- Specifying Reuse Concerns in Agent System Design Using a Role Algebra -- Comparison of Some Negotiation Algorithms Using a Tournament-Based Approach -- State-Based Modeling Method for Multiagent Conversation Protocols and Decision Activities -- A Framework for Inter-society Communication in Agents -- Action Recognition and Prediction for Driver Assistance Systems Using Dynamic Belief Networks -- Collaborative Agent System Using Fuzzy Logic for Optimisation -- A Self-Organizational Management Network Based on Adaptive Resonance Theory -- Mobile Software Agents for Location-Based Systems -- Partner Detection and Selection in Emergent Holonic Enterprises -- A Multi-agent System for E-insurance Brokering -- An XML Multi-agent System for E-learning and Skill Management -- Integrating Mobile and Intelligent Agents in Advanced E-commerce: A Survey -- An Agent-Oriented Approach to Industrial Automation Systems -- Multi-agent Model to Control Production System: A Reactive and Emergent Approach by Cooperation and Competition between Agents -- Integrating Agents in Software Applications -- A Foundational Analysis of Software Robustness Using Redundant Agent Collaboration.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910143881503321