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The book focuses on the fluid dynamics of cavitation with special reference to high power density turbopumps, where it represents the major source of performance and life degradation.

This volume presents and discusses recent advances in boundary element methods and their solid mechanics applications. It illustrates these methods in their latest forms, developed during the last five to ten years, and demonstrates their advantages in solving a wide range of solid mechanics problems.

The book covers selected problems in free surface flows. The topics range from linear and nonlinear gravity and capillary waves, thin film dynamics, equilibrium shape, stability, and dynamics of capillary surfaces to thermal Marangoni effects in several geometries.

This book presents, as a single package, three semingly contradictory and often competitive approaches to deal with ever present uncertainty in science and engineering.

The book covers the theories and physics of advanced new optical measuring methods and problems of experimental performance, recent achievements in the basic interferometric methods holography, speckle-interferometry, shearography as well as linear/non-linear photoelasticity and photoviscoelasticity, Moire- and grid-techniques.

Preface.- Rolling Contact Phenomena - Linear Elasticity.- Finite Element Methods for Rolling Contact.- Plastic Deformation in Rolling Contact.- Non-Steady State Rolling Contact and Corrugations.- Modelling of Tyre Force and Moment Generation.- Rolling Noise.- Lubrication

Controlling turbulence is an important issue for a number of technological applications. Several methods to modulate turbulence are currently being investigated. This book describes various aspects of turbulence structure and modulation, and explains and discusses the most promising techniques in detail.

Environmental Geomechanics covers a broad class of problems where deforming geomaterials are involved, usually coupled with fluid flow and transport of some substance. water, water vapour and air, filling the pores of geomaterials as happens in waste disposal problems or durability problems.

Theories of surface waves develop since the end of XIX century and many fundamental problems like existence, phase and group velocities, attenuation (quality factor), mode conversion, etc.

This work gives for the first time an interdisciplinary and deep approach to the mathematical modelling of rubber-like materials considering both the molecular and phenomenological point of views. The book is suitable for applied mathematicians, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, material scientists and polymer scientists.

Planning of actions based on decision theory is a hot topic for many disciplines. Software agents of e-commerce, mediators of Information Retrieval Systems and Database based Information Systems are typical new application areas.

The book presents an overview of the state of research of advanced finite element technologies. The book covers the topics of mathematical foundations for variational approaches and the mathematical understanding of the analytical requirements of modern finite element methods.

The papers in this volume provide an introduction to well known and established system identification methods for structural health monitoring and to more advanced, state-of-the-art tools, able to tackle the challenges associated with actual implementation.

The book presents mathematical and mechanical aspects of the theory of plates and shells, applications in civil, aero-space and mechanical engineering, as well in other areas. The focus relates to the following problems:¿ comprehensive review of the most popular theories of plates and shells,¿ relations between three-dimensional theories and two-dimensional ones,¿ presentation of recently developed new refined plates and shells theories (for example, the micropolar theory or gradient-type theories),¿ modeling of coupled effects in shells and plates related to electromagnetic and temperature fields, phase transitions, diffusion, etc.,¿ applications in modeling of non-classical objects like, for example, nanostructures,¿ presentation of actual numerical tools based on the finite element approach.

The book surveys the state-of-the-art methods that are currently available to model and simulate the presence of rigid particles in a fluid flow. For larger particles, for particles in liquid-solid flows and for particles that interact with each other or possibly modify the overall flow detailed model are presented.

This book examines the mechanical response of granular and cohesive soils under cyclic loading, offering theoretical and analytical tools to evaluate settling under environmentally induced loads such as wave motion, wind action and varying water table levels.

This book presents the current state of the art of nondeterministic mechanics in its various forms. It examines how probabilistic/stochastic modelling, fuzzy sets based analysis, and antioptimization of structures deal with various uncertainties.

This book offers an introduction to nonlinear phenomena in structural dynamics, covering such topics as approximate methods for analyzing nonlinear systems, vibration isolation, mitigation of ndesirable torsional vibration in rotating systems and more.

The first aspect concerns the investigation of the nature of real physical problems with the aim of finding the best variational formulation suitable to those problems.

The first aspect concerns the investigation of the nature of real physical problems with the aim of finding the best variational formulation suitable to those problems.

This book presents the current state of the art of nondeterministic mechanics in its various forms. It examines how probabilistic/stochastic modelling, fuzzy sets based analysis, and antioptimization of structures deal with various uncertainties.

A motivation for structural health monitoring. Vibration-based damage diagnosis and monitoring of external loads.Statistical time series methods for vibration based structural health monitoring.

The book presents an overview of the state of research of advanced finite element technologies. The book covers the topics of mathematical foundations for variational approaches and the mathematical understanding of the analytical requirements of modern finite element methods.

This book is a unique opportunity to present in a single volume information that is needed for both experimentalists, theoreticians and computationalists for the detection, analysis, prediction and control of eddy structures in turbulent shear flows.

The CISM-IFToMM Symposia have played a dynamic role in the development of the theory and practice of robotics. The proceedings of the Tenth Symposia present a world view to date of the state-of-the-art, including a unique record of the results achieved in central and eastern Europe.