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Continuum Mechanics is a branch of physical mechanics that describes the macroscopic mechanical behavior of solid or fluid materials considered to be continuously distributed. It is fundamental to the fields of civil, mechanical, chemical and bioengineering. This time-tested text has been used for over 35 years to introduce junior and ...
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
Continuum Mechanics is a branch of physical mechanics that describes the macroscopic mechanical behavior of solid or fluid materials considered to be continuously distributed. It is fundamental to the fields of civil, mechanical, chemical and bioengineering. This time-tested text has been used for over 35 years to introduce junior and senior-level undergraduate engineering students, as well as graduate students, to the basic principles of continuum mechanics and their applications to real engineering problems. The text begins with a detailed presentation of the coordinate invariant quantity, the tensor, introduced as a linear transformation. This is then followed by the formulation of the kinematics of deformation, large as well as very small, the description of stresses and the basic laws of continuum mechanics. As applications of these laws, the behaviors of certain material idealizations (models) including the elastic, viscous and viscoelastic materials, are presented. This new edition offers expanded coverage of the subject matter both in terms of details and contents, providing greater flexibility for either a one or two-semester course in either continuum mechanics or elasticity. Although this current edition has expanded the coverage of the subject matter, it nevertheless uses the same approach as that in the earlier editions - that one can cover advanced topics in an elementary way that go from simple to complex, using a wealth of illustrative examples and problems. It is, and will remain, one of the most accessible textbooks on this challenging engineering subject.
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Updating the Artech House bestseller, Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics , this newly revised second edition provides electrical and mechanical engineers with complete and current coverage of microfluidics - an emerging field involving fluid flow and devices in microscale and nanoscale. The second edition offers a greatly expanded treatment of ...
Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics
Updating the Artech House bestseller, Fundamentals and Applications of Microfluidics , this newly revised second edition provides electrical and mechanical engineers with complete and current coverage of microfluidics - an emerging field involving fluid flow and devices in microscale and nanoscale. The second edition offers a greatly expanded treatment of nanotechnology, electrokinetics and flow theory. The book shows engineers how to take advantage of the performance benefits of microfluidics and serves as an instant reference for state-of-the-art microfluidics technology and applications. The wide range of applications discussed includes fluid control devices, gas and fluid measurement devices, medical testing equipment, and implantable drug pumps. Professionals learn how to choose the best fabrication and enabling technology for a specific microfluidic application.
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Thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in the field, this classic text on finite-difference and finite-volume computational methods maintains the fundamental concepts covered in the first edition. As an introductory text for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Third Edition provides the background ...
Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Thoroughly updated to include the latest developments in the field, this classic text on finite-difference and finite-volume computational methods maintains the fundamental concepts covered in the first edition. As an introductory text for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Third Edition provides the background necessary for solving complex problems in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Divided into two parts, the book first lays the groundwork for the essential concepts preceding the fluids equations in the second part. It includes expanded coverage of turbulence and large-eddy simulation (LES) and additional material included on detached-eddy simulation (DES) and direct numerical simulation (DNS). Designed as a valuable resource for practitioners and students, new homework problems have been added to further enhance the student's understanding of the fundamentals and applications.
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by Dale A. Anderson, John C. Tannehill, Richard H. Pletcher
in Computational and Physical Processes in Mechanics and Thermal Sciences
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Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control (2nd Edition)
The second edition of this book would not have been possible without the comments and suggestions from students, especially those at Columbia University. Many of the new topics introduced here are a direct result of student feedback that helped refine and clarify the material. The intention of this book was to develop material that the author would have liked to have had available as a student. Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control (2nd Edition) explains robotics concepts in detail, concentrating on their practical use. Related theorems and formal proofs are provided, as are real-life applications. The second edition includes updated and expanded exercise sets and problems. New coverage includes: components and mechanisms of a robotic system with actuators, sensors and controllers, along with updated and expanded material on kinematics. New coverage is also provided in sensing and control including position sensors, speed sensors and acceleration sensors. Students, researchers, and practicing engineers alike will appreciate this user-friendly presentation of a wealth of robotics topics, most notably orientation, velocity, and forward kinematics.
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by Reza N. Jazar
Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control simply and comprehensively addresses the fundamental principles of vibration theory, emphasizing its application in solving practical engineering problems. The authors focus on strengthening engineers' command of mathematics as a cornerstone for understanding vibration, control, and the ways in which uncertainties affect analysis. It provides ...
Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control
Mechanical Vibration: Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control simply and comprehensively addresses the fundamental principles of vibration theory, emphasizing its application in solving practical engineering problems. The authors focus on strengthening engineers' command of mathematics as a cornerstone for understanding vibration, control, and the ways in which uncertainties affect analysis. It provides a detailed exploration and explanation of the essential equations involved in modeling vibrating systems and shows readers how to employ MATLAB(R) as an advanced tool for analyzing specific problems. Forgoing the extensive and in-depth analysis of randomness and control found in more specialized texts, this straightforward, easy-to-follow volume presents the format, content, and depth of description that the authors themselves would have found useful when they first learned the subject. The authors assume that the readers have a basic knowledge of dynamics, mechanics of materials, differential equations, and some knowledge of matrix algebra. Clarifying necessary mathematics, they present formulations and explanations to convey significant details. The material is organized to afford great flexibility regarding course level, content, and usefulness in self-study for practicing engineers or as a text for graduate engineering students. This work includes example problems and explanatory figures, biographies of renowned contributors, and access to a website providing supplementary resources. These include an online MATLAB primer featuring original programs that can be used to solve complex problems and test solutions.
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by Mark L. Nagurka, Haym Benaroya
in Mechanical Engineering (v. 214)
Combustion Engineering, Second Edition maintains the same goal as the original: to present the fundamentals of combustion science with application to today's energy challenges. Using combustion applications to reinforce the fundamentals of combustion science, this text provides a uniquely accessible introduction to combustion for undergraduate students, first-year graduate students, and ...
Combustion Engineering
Combustion Engineering, Second Edition maintains the same goal as the original: to present the fundamentals of combustion science with application to today's energy challenges. Using combustion applications to reinforce the fundamentals of combustion science, this text provides a uniquely accessible introduction to combustion for undergraduate students, first-year graduate students, and professionals in the workplace. Combustion is a critical issue impacting energy utilization, sustainability, and climate change. The challenge is to design safe and efficient combustion systems for many types of fuels in a way that protects the environment and enables sustainable lifestyles. Emphasizing the use of combustion fundamentals in the engineering and design of combustion systems, this text provides detailed coverage of gaseous, liquid and solid fuel combustion, including focused coverage of biomass combustion, which will be invaluable to new entrants to the field. Eight chapters address the fundamentals of combustion, including fuels, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, flames, detonations, sprays, and solid fuel combustion mechanisms. Eight additional chapters apply these fundamentals to furnaces, spark ignition and diesel engines, gas turbines, and suspension burning, fixed bed combustion, and fluidized bed combustion of solid fuels. Presenting a renewed emphasis on fundamentals and updated applications to illustrate the latest trends relevant to combustion engineering, the authors provide a number of pedagogic features, including: Numerous tables with practical data and formulae that link combustion fundamentals to engineering practice Concise presentation of mathematical methods with qualitative descriptions of their use Coverage of alternative and renewable fuel topics throughout the text Extensive example problems, chapter-end problems, and references These features and the overall fundamentals-to-practice nature of this book make it an ideal resource for undergraduate, first level graduate, or professional training classes. Students and practitioners will find that it is an excellent introduction to meeting the crucial challenge of engineering sustainable combustion systems in a cost-effective manner. A solutions manual and additional teaching resources are available with qualifying course adoption.
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by Kenneth M. Bryden, Kenneth W. Ragland
This textbook explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Readers will discover a thorough explanation of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows, along with a detailed examination of the ...
The Finite Volume Method in Computational Fluid Dynamics: An Advanced Introduction with OpenFOAM (R) and Matlab
This textbook explores both the theoretical foundation of the Finite Volume Method (FVM) and its applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Readers will discover a thorough explanation of the FVM numerics and algorithms used for the simulation of incompressible and compressible fluid flows, along with a detailed examination of the components needed for the development of a collocated unstructured pressure-based CFD solver. Two particular CFD codes are explored. The first is uFVM, a three-dimensional unstructured pressure-based finite volume academic CFD code, implemented within Matlab. The second is OpenFOAM (R), an open source framework used in the development of a range of CFD programs for the simulation of industrial scale flow problems. With over 220 figures, numerous examples and more than one hundred exercise on FVM numerics, programming, and applications, this textbook is suitable for use in an introductory course on the FVM, in an advanced course on numerics, and as a reference for CFD programmers and researchers.
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by M. Darwish, L. Mangani, F. Moukalled
in Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (113)
This book is the third in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, and includes high quality articles (full research articles, review articles and case studies) with a special emphasis on research and development in machining and machine-tools. Machining and machine tools is an important subject with application in several ...
Machining and Machine-Tools: Research and Development
This book is the third in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series, and includes high quality articles (full research articles, review articles and case studies) with a special emphasis on research and development in machining and machine-tools. Machining and machine tools is an important subject with application in several industries. Parts manufactured by other processes often require further operations before the product is ready for application. Traditional machining is the broad term used to describe removal of material from a work piece, and covers chip formation operations including: turning, milling, drilling and grinding. Recently the industrial utilization of non-traditional machining processes such as EDM (electrical discharge machining), LBM (laser-beam machining), AWJM (abrasive water jet machining) and USM (ultrasonic machining) has increased. The performance characteristics of machine tools and the significant development of existing and new processes, and machines, are considered. Nowadays, in Europe, USA, Japan and countries with emerging economies machine tools is a sector with great technological evolution.
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in Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series (3)
This new text integrates fundamental theory with modern computational tools such as EES, MATLAB (R), and FEHT to equip students with the essential tools for designing and optimizing real-world systems and the skills needed to become effective practicing engineers. Real engineering problems are illustrated and solved in a clear step-by-step ...
Introduction to Engineering Heat Transfer
This new text integrates fundamental theory with modern computational tools such as EES, MATLAB (R), and FEHT to equip students with the essential tools for designing and optimizing real-world systems and the skills needed to become effective practicing engineers. Real engineering problems are illustrated and solved in a clear step-by-step manner. Starting from first principles, derivations are tailored to be accessible to undergraduates by separating the formulation and analysis from the solution and exploration steps to encourage a deep and practical understanding. Numerous exercises are provided for homework and self-study and include standard hand calculations as well as more advanced project-focused problems for the practice and application of computational tools. Appendices include reference tables for thermophysical properties and answers to selected homework problems from the book. Complete with an online package of guidance documents on EES, MATLAB (R), and FEHT software, sample code, lecture slides, video tutorials, and a test bank and full solutions manual for instructors, this is an ideal text for undergraduate heat transfer courses and a useful guide for practicing engineers.
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by S. A. Klein, G. F. Nellis
Fully revised to match the more traditional sequence of course materials, this full-color second edition presents the basic principles and methods of thermodynamics using a clear and engaging style and a wealth of end-of-chapter problems. It includes five new chapters on topics such as mixtures, psychrometry, chemical equilibrium, and combustion, ...
Thermodynamics: Concepts and Applications
Fully revised to match the more traditional sequence of course materials, this full-color second edition presents the basic principles and methods of thermodynamics using a clear and engaging style and a wealth of end-of-chapter problems. It includes five new chapters on topics such as mixtures, psychrometry, chemical equilibrium, and combustion, and discussion of the Second Law of Thermodynamics has been expanded and divided into two chapters, allowing instructors to introduce the topic using either the cycle analysis in Chapter 6 or the definition of entropy in Chapter 7. Online ancillaries including a password-protected solutions manual, figures in electronic format, prepared PowerPoint lecture slides, and instructional videos are available.
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by Laura L. Pauley, Stephen R. Turns
An introductory engineering textbook by an award-winning MIT professor that covers the history of dynamics and the dynamical analyses of mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems. This introductory textbook offers a distinctive blend of the modern and the historical, seeking to encourage an appreciation for the history of dynamics while also ...
Fundamentals of Applied Dynamics
An introductory engineering textbook by an award-winning MIT professor that covers the history of dynamics and the dynamical analyses of mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems. This introductory textbook offers a distinctive blend of the modern and the historical, seeking to encourage an appreciation for the history of dynamics while also presenting a framework for future learning. The text presents engineering mechanics as a unified field, emphasizing dynamics but integrating topics from other disciplines, including design and the humanities. The book begins with a history of mechanics, suitable for an undergraduate overview. Subsequent chapters cover such topics as three-dimensional kinematics; the direct approach, also known as vectorial mechanics or the momentum approach; the indirect approach, also called lagrangian dynamics or variational dynamics; an expansion of the momentum and lagrangian formulations to extended bodies; lumped-parameter electrical and electromagnetic devices; and equations of motion for one-dimensional continuum models. The book is noteworthy in covering both lagrangian dynamics and vibration analysis. The principles covered are relatively few and easy to articulate; the examples are rich and broad. Summary tables, often in the form of flowcharts, appear throughout. End-of-chapter problems begin at an elementary level and become increasingly difficult. Appendixes provide theoretical and mathematical support for the main text.
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by James H Williams, Jr.
in The MIT Press
Multi-rotor Platform Based UAV Systems provides an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, capability augmentation and confidence-building for senior level undergraduates, entry-level graduates, engineers working in government agencies, and industry involved in UAV R&D. Topics in this book include an introduction to VTOL multi-copter UAV platforms, UAV system architecture, integration in ...
Multi-rotor Platform Based UAV Systems
Multi-rotor Platform Based UAV Systems provides an excellent opportunity for experiential learning, capability augmentation and confidence-building for senior level undergraduates, entry-level graduates, engineers working in government agencies, and industry involved in UAV R&D. Topics in this book include an introduction to VTOL multi-copter UAV platforms, UAV system architecture, integration in the national airspace, including UAV classification and associated missions, regulation and safety, certification and air traffic management, integrated mission planning, including autonomous fault tolerant path planning and vision based auto landing systems, flight mechanics and stability, dynamic modeling and flight controller development. Other topics covered include sense, detect and avoid systems, flight testing, including safety assessment instrumentation and data acquisition telemetry, synchronization data fusion, the geo-location of identified targets, and much more.
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by Manish Kumar, Kelly Cohen, Franck Cazaurang
Technological advancements continue to enhance the field of engineering and have led to progress in branches that include electrical and mechanical engineering. These technologies have allowed for more sophisticated circuits and components while also advancing renewable energy initiatives. With increased growth in these fields, there is a need for a ...
Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Technological advancements continue to enhance the field of engineering and have led to progress in branches that include electrical and mechanical engineering. These technologies have allowed for more sophisticated circuits and components while also advancing renewable energy initiatives. With increased growth in these fields, there is a need for a collection of research that details the variety of works being studied in our globalized world. The Handbook of Research on Recent Developments in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering is a pivotal reference source that discusses the latest advancements in these engineering fields. Featuring research on topics such as materials manufacturing, microwave photons, and wireless power transfer, this book is ideally designed for graduate students, researchers, engineers, manufacturing managers, and academicians seeking coverage on the works and experiences achieved in electrical and mechanical engineering.
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in Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering
This book systematically introduces the bionic nature of force sensing and control, the biomechanical principle on mechanism of force generation and control of skeletal muscle, and related applications in robotic exoskeleton. The book focuses on three main aspects: muscle force generation principle and biomechanical model, exoskeleton robot technology based on ...
Biomechanical Principles on Force Generation and Control of Skeletal Muscle and their Applications in Robotic Exoskeleton
This book systematically introduces the bionic nature of force sensing and control, the biomechanical principle on mechanism of force generation and control of skeletal muscle, and related applications in robotic exoskeleton. The book focuses on three main aspects: muscle force generation principle and biomechanical model, exoskeleton robot technology based on skeletal muscle biomechanical model, and SMA-based bionic skeletal muscle technology. This comprehensive and in-depth book presents the author's research experience and achievements of many years to readers in an effort to promote academic exchanges in this field. About the Author Yuehong Yin received his B.E. , M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, in 1990, 1995 and 1997, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. From December 1997 to December 1999, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, where he became an Associate Professor in July 1999. Since December 1999, he has been with the Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, where he became a Professor and a Tenure Professor in December 2005 and January 2016, respectively. His research interests include robotics, force control, exoskeleton robot, molecular motor, artificial limb, robotic assembly, reconfigurable assembly system, and augmented reality. Dr. Yin is a fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP).
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by Yuehong Yin
in Advances in Systems Science and Engineering ASSE
Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Systems provides a comprehensive approach to nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics, reflecting the latest technologies, reactor designs, and safety considerations. The text makes extensive use of color images, internet links, computer graphics, and other innovative techniques to explore nuclear power plant design and operation. Key fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and ...
Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics: An Introduction to Nuclear Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow
Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulic Systems provides a comprehensive approach to nuclear reactor thermal-hydraulics, reflecting the latest technologies, reactor designs, and safety considerations. The text makes extensive use of color images, internet links, computer graphics, and other innovative techniques to explore nuclear power plant design and operation. Key fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and nuclear engineering concepts are carefully explained, and supported with worked examples, tables, and graphics. Intended for use in one or two semester courses, the text is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students. A complete Solutions Manual is available for professors adopting the text.
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by Robert E. Masterson
Magnesium and Its Alloys: Technology and Applications covers a wide scope of topics related to magnesium science and engineering, from manufacturing and production to finishing and applications. This handbook contains thirteen chapters, each contributed by experts in their respective fields, and presents a broad spectrum of new information on pure ...
Magnesium and Its Alloys: Technology and Applications
Magnesium and Its Alloys: Technology and Applications covers a wide scope of topics related to magnesium science and engineering, from manufacturing and production to finishing and applications. This handbook contains thirteen chapters, each contributed by experts in their respective fields, and presents a broad spectrum of new information on pure magnesium, magnesium alloys, and magnesium matrix MgMCs composites. It covers such topics as computational thermodynamics, modern Mg-alloys with enhanced creep or fatigue properties, cutting-edge approaches to melt treating (grain refinement, micro-alloying, and the resulting solidification and growth), coatings, surface engineering, environmental protection (recycling and green energy storage and production), as well as biomedical applications. Aimed at researchers, professionals, and graduate students, the book conveys comprehensive and cutting-edge knowledge on magnesium alloys. It is especially useful to those in the fields of materials engineering, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, and metallurgy.
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Coanda effect is a complex fluid flow phenomenon enabling the production of vertical take-off/landing aircraft. Other applications range from helicopters to road vehicles, from flow mixing to combustion, from noise reduction to pollution control, from power generation to robot operation, and so forth. Book starts with description of the effect, ...
Coanda Effect: Flow Phenomenon and Applications
Coanda effect is a complex fluid flow phenomenon enabling the production of vertical take-off/landing aircraft. Other applications range from helicopters to road vehicles, from flow mixing to combustion, from noise reduction to pollution control, from power generation to robot operation, and so forth. Book starts with description of the effect, its history and general formulation of governing equations/simplifications used in different applications. Further, it gives an account of this effect's lift boosting potential on a wing and in non-flying vehicles including industrial applications. Finally, occurrence of the same in human body and associated adverse medical conditions are explained.
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by Noor A Ahmed
Following elucidation of the basics of thermodynamics and detailed explanation of chemical kinetics of reactive mixtures, readers are introduced to unique and effective mathematical tools for the modeling, simulation and analysis of chemical non-equilibrium phenomena in combustion and flows. The reactor approach is presented considering thermochemical reactors as the focal ...
Chemical Kinetics in Combustion and Reactive Flows: Modeling Tools and Applications
Following elucidation of the basics of thermodynamics and detailed explanation of chemical kinetics of reactive mixtures, readers are introduced to unique and effective mathematical tools for the modeling, simulation and analysis of chemical non-equilibrium phenomena in combustion and flows. The reactor approach is presented considering thermochemical reactors as the focal points. Novel equations of chemical kinetics compiling chemical thermodynamic and transport processes make reactor models universal and easily applicable to the simulation of combustion and flow in a variety of propulsion and energy generation units. Readers will find balanced coverage of both fundamental material on chemical kinetics and thermodynamics, and detailed description of mathematical models and algorithms, along with examples of their application. Researchers, practitioners, lecturers, and graduate students will all find this work valuable.
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by A. V. Demin, A. L. Abdullin, V. G. Krioukov, V. I. Naoumov
Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering. It presents design methods for high-order nonlinear single- and multi-loop controllers with efficient analog and digital implementations. Bode integrals are employed to estimate the available system ...
Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems: With MATLAB (R) and Simulink (R), Third Edition
Classical Feedback Control with Nonlinear Multi-Loop Systems describes the design of high-performance feedback control systems, emphasizing the frequency-domain approach widely used in practical engineering. It presents design methods for high-order nonlinear single- and multi-loop controllers with efficient analog and digital implementations. Bode integrals are employed to estimate the available system performance and to determine the ideal frequency responses that maximize the disturbance rejection and feedback bandwidth. Nonlinear dynamic compensators provide global stability and improve transient responses. This book serves as a unique text for an advanced course in control system engineering, and as a valuable reference for practicing engineers competing in today's industrial environment.
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by Paul Enright, Boris J. Lurie
in Automation and Control Engineering
This book builds inviscid flow analysis from an undergraduate-level treatment of potential flow to the level required for research. The tools covered in this book allow the reader to develop physics-based mathematical models for a variety of flows, including attached and separated flows past wings, fins, and blades of various ...
Mathematical Modeling of Unsteady Inviscid Flows
This book builds inviscid flow analysis from an undergraduate-level treatment of potential flow to the level required for research. The tools covered in this book allow the reader to develop physics-based mathematical models for a variety of flows, including attached and separated flows past wings, fins, and blades of various shapes undergoing arbitrary motions. The book covers all of the ingredients of these models: the solution of potential flows about arbitrary body shapes in two- and three-dimensional contexts, with a particular focus on conformal mapping in the plane; the decomposition of the flow into contributions from ambient vorticity and body motion; generalized edge conditions, of which the Kutta condition is a special case; and the calculation of force and moment, with extensive treatments of added mass and the influence of fluid vorticity. The book also contains an extensive primer with all of the necessary mathematical tools. The concepts are demonstrated on several example problems, both classical and modern.
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by Jeff D. Eldredge
in Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics (50)
Control Systems: Classical, Modern, and AI-Based Approaches provides a broad and comprehensive study of the principles, mathematics, and applications for those studying basic control in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and other engineering disciplines. The text builds a strong mathematical foundation of control theory of linear, nonlinear, optimal, model predictive, robust, digital, ...
Control Systems: Classical, Modern, and AI-Based Approaches
Control Systems: Classical, Modern, and AI-Based Approaches provides a broad and comprehensive study of the principles, mathematics, and applications for those studying basic control in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and other engineering disciplines. The text builds a strong mathematical foundation of control theory of linear, nonlinear, optimal, model predictive, robust, digital, and adaptive control systems, and it addresses applications in several emerging areas, such as aircraft, electro-mechanical, and some nonengineering systems: DC motor control, steel beam thickness control, drum boiler, motional control system, chemical reactor, head-disk assembly, pitch control of an aircraft, yaw-damper control, helicopter control, and tidal power control. Decentralized control, game-theoretic control, and control of hybrid systems are discussed. Also, control systems based on artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms, termed as AI-based systems are studied and analyzed with applications such as auto-landing aircraft, industrial process control, active suspension system, fuzzy gain scheduling, PID control, and adaptive neuro control. Numerical coverage with MATLAB (R) is integrated, and numerous examples and exercises are included for each chapter. Associated MATLAB (R) code will be made available.
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by Ramakalyan Ayyagari, Jitendra R. Raol
Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the tenth edition of Beer, Johnston, Mazurek, and Cornwell's Vector Mechanics for Engineers provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant refreshment of the exercise sets and online delivery of homework problems to your students. Nearly forty percent of ...
Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics (in SI Units)
Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the tenth edition of Beer, Johnston, Mazurek, and Cornwell's Vector Mechanics for Engineers provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant refreshment of the exercise sets and online delivery of homework problems to your students. Nearly forty percent of the problems in the text are changed from the previous edition. The Beer/Johnston textbooks introduced significant pedagogical innovations into engineering mechanics teaching. The consistent, accurate problem-solving methodology gives your students the best opportunity to learn statics and dynamics. At the same time, the careful presentation of content, unmatched levels of accuracy, and attention to detail have made these texts the standard for excellence.
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by Phillip J. Cornwell, E. Russell Johnston, Ferdinand P. Beer
The IUT AM / IFToMM Symposium on Synthesis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, held in Riga, Latvia, 24-28 August 1998, was one of a series of IUTAM sponsored symposia which focus on the theory and application of methods of nonlinear dynamics in mechanics. The symposium follows eighteen symposia on Analysis and ...
IUTAM / IFToMM Symposium on Synthesis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Proceedings of the IUTAM / IFToMM Symposium held in Riga, Latvia, 24-28 August 1998
The IUT AM / IFToMM Symposium on Synthesis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, held in Riga, Latvia, 24-28 August 1998, was one of a series of IUTAM sponsored symposia which focus on the theory and application of methods of nonlinear dynamics in mechanics. The symposium follows eighteen symposia on Analysis and Synthesis of Nonlinear Mechanical Oscillatory Systems held at Riga Technical University from 1971 to 1991 and in 1996 (prof. E. Lavendelis and Prof. M. Zakrzhevsky). Early in the late fifties and sixties Prof. J. G. Panovko organised several successful conferences in Riga on Nonlinear Oscillations. The participants in all these conferences and symposia (except 1996) were only from the ex-Soviet Union. This symposium, organised by the Institute of Mechanics of Riga Technical University, brought together scientists active in different fields of nonlinear dynamics. Selected scientists from 14 countries represented a wide range of expertise in' mechanics, from pure theoreticians to people primarily oriented towards application of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics and nonlinear oscillations. The goal of the symposium was to stimulate development of the theory of strongly nonlinear dynamical systems and its new applications in the fields of applied mechanics, engineering and other branches of science and technology.
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in Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (73)
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in Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (36)
Effective evacuations can save lives. This book provides mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective evacuation. The book also provides various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. It book uses the hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDE macroscopic pedestrian models since ...
Pedestrian Dynamics: Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation
Effective evacuations can save lives. This book provides mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective evacuation. The book also provides various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. It book uses the hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDE macroscopic pedestrian models since they are amenable to feedback control design. The control designs are obtained through different nonlinear techniques.
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In this book, the author points out that anyone who performs a management function, must have some reliable method of adding value to the products and services of the organization. One way to do this is by properly understanding and using Design of Experiments (DoE). This book is not a ...
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In this book, the author points out that anyone who performs a management function, must have some reliable method of adding value to the products and services of the organization. One way to do this is by properly understanding and using Design of Experiments (DoE). This book is not a DoE text. The main emphasis of the book is to expand the horizons of those who manage, in order for them to see new possibilities of adding value themselves, and of managing value-added operations. It shows how to use this versatile, effective and efficient tool in applications beyond traditional manufacturing and design engineering and how DoE can be used as a unifying theory throughout an organization. This book should be of interest to practising industrial and manufacturing engineers, quality professionals, senior undergraduate and graduate IE students, and MBAs.
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by Lloyd W. Condra
in IFIP
The emerging area of hybrid dynamical systems lies at the interface of control theory and computer science, i.e., analogue 'and' digital aspects of systems. This new monograph presents state-of-the-art concepts, methods and tools for analyzing and describing hybrid dynamical systems.
Qualitative Theory of Hybrid Dynamical Systems
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by Andrey V. Savkin, Alexey S. Matveev
in Control Engineering
Ultrasonic Methods of Non-Destructive Testing covers the basic principles and practices of ultrasonic testing, starting with the basic theory of vibration and propagation, design and properties and probes, and then proceeding to the principles and practice of the various ultrasonic techniques for different types of components and structures, both metallic ...
Ultrasonic Methods of Non-destructive Testing
Ultrasonic Methods of Non-Destructive Testing covers the basic principles and practices of ultrasonic testing, starting with the basic theory of vibration and propagation, design and properties and probes, and then proceeding to the principles and practice of the various ultrasonic techniques for different types of components and structures, both metallic and non-metallic. The design and operation of various types of equipment are covered and references to appropriate national and international standards are provided. Numerous applications are discussed comprehensively and special attention is paid to latest developments. A large number of references is provided so as to enable the reader to obtain further information.
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by G. Simpson, J Blitz
in Non-Destructive Evaluation Series (2)
Friction contacts are used to transmit forces or to dissipate energy. The aim of this second edition is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction. This procedure is applied to different practical problems and validated by experiments. A thorough understanding of friction phenomena can lead ...
Dynamical Contact Problems with Friction: Models, Methods, Experiments and Applications
Friction contacts are used to transmit forces or to dissipate energy. The aim of this second edition is to describe an efficient procedure to model dynamical contact problems with friction. This procedure is applied to different practical problems and validated by experiments. A thorough understanding of friction phenomena can lead to improvements like the reduction of noise and maintenance costs, increased useful life of machines and improved energy efficiency.
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by Walter Sextro
A knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of both naturally occurring materials, such as soils and rocks, and artificial materials such as concrete and industrial granular matter, is of fundamental importance to their proper use in engineering and scientific applications. This volume contains selected lectures by international experts on current developments ...
Continuous and Discontinuous Modelling of Cohesive-frictional Materials
A knowledge of the mechanical behaviour of both naturally occurring materials, such as soils and rocks, and artificial materials such as concrete and industrial granular matter, is of fundamental importance to their proper use in engineering and scientific applications. This volume contains selected lectures by international experts on current developments and problems in the numerical modelling of cohesive-frictional materials which provide a deeper understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic description of such materials. This book fills a gap by emphasizing the cross-fertilization of ideas between engineers and scientists engaged in this exciting field of research.
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in Lecture Notes in Physics (v. 568)


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Anime Review: Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
May 1, 2018 March 4, 2018
Who Would Like this Anime?
Characters look cute, fantasy, lots of girls. Sounds like a fun fantasy adventure, right? No. Half the anime consists of psychological mindbreaks, despair, gore, and drama. To extreme degrees. So if you're here looking for the former, then you probably won't like half the anime. You've been warned.
I'm kinda sure I watched the DameDesuYo BD release in 1080p. The translation is A-OK, just like two typos altogether and very few lines I would've done differently. I recommend watching this one.
Out of nowhere, Subaru finds himself in a world unknown to him. It's filled with all kinds of fantasy stuff. Unfamiliar with his new surroundings and trotting around without a plan, he soon finds himself in trouble facing a group of thugs. A silver-haired girl comes to his aid, and to make up for it, he promises to help her find the item she's looking for. That, however, gets him killed, and he finds himself back in the spot of this unknown world where he originally awoke.
It's a high-budget production and it shows. I'm no expert, but it looked like a native 1080p production to me, so it pays off to get the hi-res release. The animations are well done, backgrounds sharp and detailed, the characters look just slightly sketchy in a few high-speed scenes, but are, overall, great too. ReZero even utilizes 3D models to animate extras in the streets, making city scenes appear more lively and detailed.
ReZero is an anime of extremes. It's extremely good in some aspects, extremely bad in others. It really knows no moderation, you get either sh*t or gold. Let's start with the gold.
I've seen quite a bunch of fantasy stuff, but the fantasy world introduced in ReZero with it's outset, intrigues, and complications is easily the best and most interesting world I've ever seen. The big idea of a country in need of a new queen, trying to pick the best from a selection of "princesses" that are favored by their patron, a dragon, while in the shadows a witch cult operates to ressurect an ancient evil and even the princesses themselves aren't necessarily in favor of the current state of the kingdom with its corruption, racism, and slums. It's believable, feasable, consistent. I'm highly interested in how things play out.
The characters are diverse and in great number. You've got proud, yet awkward girls, the energetic loli with that fang tooth thingy, a verbally abusive maid, a deredere maid, proud knights, kind knights, haughty nobels with a God complex, moody lolis, friendly cat girls (?); just lots of characters. It's flatout impossible to give all of them depth in 26 episodes. However, the "core" cast does get their fair share of depth, sometimes only hinted at in a "loop," sometimes thoroughly explained in a coherent segment.
There are two aspects I'd judge as "neutral." The comedy and character behavior/development. ReZero does have its funny moments, but you really don't wanna watch it for the comedy. They're scarce and won't make your top 10 of the funniest anime moments ever. ReZero is not comedy. As for the character development, it's another matter of extremes. Characters either hate and abuse Subaru or love and respect him. Sometimes they're even by the same characters in different loops. The actions he performs are, in my oppinion, too little for the reactions they result in. They kill him in cold blood in one loop, then love him unconditionally after the next, they mentally abuse and let him down in one loop, then support and swear their eternal respect in the other. Literally every character kills, hurts, abuses, or exploits Subaru at one point, yet actions that I deem relatively small in comparison to the hate he originally faces net him the other side of the extreme in treatment. It's just weird how there seem to be no shades of grey. It appears to be very possible that nearly all characters would turn on him and kill Subaru if he oversteps.
But there's also some sh*t in ReZero. That's Subaru himself, for one. In my top worst (hehe) anime protagonists list, he doesn't take the cake, but damn he's trying. 80% of the whole anime he's a useless waste of skin. The moment you think he got his sh*t together and will from now on behave more like some sort of protagonist, he puts borderline retarded behavior on display and does his best to crush what he's built up so far. He sabotages himself and his allies and pushes them away with almost intend. On top of being slow on the uptake – it takes him dying a few times before he realizes the obvious that he can return from death, for instance – he sometimes does less in loops than he did in former. When he doesn't break down mentally from dying over and over again and wallows in self-pity, his false pride leads him to overstep, ultimately causing trouble for his "friends." It can get really frustrating watching him being his pathetic self, accomplishing nothing while all those cute girls and whatnot get ripped apart, slaughtered, beheaded, crushed, their eyeballs ripped out, frozen to death, etc. (I'm not making this list up). Especially the arc in the middle of the anime really drags on. The whole dilemma originates from Subaru bringing shame to Emilia by trying to oversell his pathetic self and belittling the knighthood 'cause of his pathetic ego and jealousy. Painful to watch. If at one point you, as a viewer, hope the arrogant knight will literally kick the protagonist's stupid ass to death, then he's probably not the most likable. I get that it's, to an extend, realistic to lose your mind after experiencing the pain of dying over and over again, but Jesus Christ, at the end of the day this is an anime, it doesn't have to drag on for almost two hours. I do understand that the point of Subaru is that he's powerless, but powerless doesn't have to mean useless. He does get his shit together in the end, but before that, you'll have to watch his pathetic self for literally hours. I just don't see how that's fun. It's too much. Even thought 26 episodes long, with regards to Subaru's development, the anime feels like a prologue at the end of which he reaches "protagonisthood."
Another sh*tty extreme of ReZero is the extensive gore. I understand it's a bloody world in conflict, but the sheer amount of girls having their arms, legs, necks, everything broken and ripped apart is disgusting, I don't get off on that. You'll even see a little girl in preschool/elementary school range dead, with her eyes scratched out. Why? I don't know, it's just in bad taste. I don't criticize the gore, I criticize the amount and extend. Half of the gore present could've just been hinted at, but no, the shocker value was seemingly irresistable.
All in all, to me ReZero is a masterpiece and garbage at the same time. I skipped through portions of Subaru's, let's call it, second pathetic arc since I was just tired of watching him being a pathetic loser hours on end. The anime does repay you with an incredible world, setting, story, and characters, but does drag itself down with overdoing the despair, drama, and gore. Spice adds flavor to your meal, too much spice ruins it. ReZero is too spicy for my taste and drags itself down from a masterpiece-ish 9 to a good 7. It's unique but overrated.
Light Novel Review: Re:Zero Volume 1
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2 thoughts on "Anime Review: Re: Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu"
binly
Yup, basically the anime comes down to that it's good with great world, but Subaru is annoying af for hours on end.
I notice the lack of Rem in this review which makes me a little sad that you've not seen the light.
cautr
I didn't mention her specifically, but she's between the lines. In my opinion, Rem's one of the characters that experience a swing in personality too huge for what changes. She goes from killing Subaru in cold blood to unconditionally devoting herself to him and actually being more of a main heroine and ally than Emilia. That's not a bad thing, but still weird.
She goes from being one of the biggest problems in the second arc to playing the biggest part in the solution of the final arc, basically being the only one who doesn't forsake Subaru's sorry ass. Rem's probably the best character in the anime also receiving the most depth, which makes it all the more frustrating to see her get killed, tortured, and sacrificed for Subaru's uselessness.
However, I'll be damned if Rem won't be a hotspot for fatal drama in later arcs. She explicitely tells Subaru that she loves him, and Subaru explitely tells Emilia that he loves her. Maybe they'll all go for a boat ride, if you know what I mean. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Anyway, sorry for neglecting best girl (?), I'll probably edit a paragraph in there in her honor.

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Church of St Michael and All Angels, Maxstoke
St Michael and All Saints Church Maxstoke, 17th January 2019.
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Description of this historic site
The Medieval parish church of St. Michael and All Angels which is Medieval in origin. It is situated in Maxstoke.
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Notes about this historic site
1 c1340. A plain rectangular structure with a modern embattled bell-turret at the W end and a modern vestry on S. C18 pulpit and panelling. The church and walls, butressed on the S, are probably ancient.
2 Built at the same time as the priory, c 1340. A church at Maxstoke is mentioned in the late C13.
3 Evidently dates from the same time as the priory and castle, but it is a surprising building. It looks as if it is the very proud chancel to a church that was never built. Can this be due to its having been built as a chapel ante portas of the priory? No division between nave and chancel.
4 Photographs.
5 Ground higher at E than W – plinth buried at E. Adjoining settlement removed when priory built? C17 vaults indicated by wall plaques. External drains – whole exterior. C14 priory adjoins church. Below-floor deposits probably extensively disturbed by graves inside church. Possible remains of deserted settlement around church.
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import com.intellij.psi.scope.PsiScopeProcessor;
import com.intellij.psi.search.GlobalSearchScope;
import com.intellij.psi.search.SearchScope;
import com.intellij.util.ArrayFactory;
import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
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BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FACULTY
Manuel Garcia-Pérez
Director of BSEL
WSU Tri-Cities Research
Dr. Garcia-Perez's work is in the Bioenergy and Bioproducts Engineering research emphasis area and addresses the environmental burden associated with the world's declining petroleum resources. He is currently working on new Thermochemical conversion concepts— a process that converts biomass waste, such as forest residues, sugar cane bagasse, triglycerides, sugars, and starch, into transportation fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Garcia-Perez is featured in Washington State Magazine for his work in Bioenergy. Photo of Dr. Manuel Garcia-Perez by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services.
Garcia-Perez and his research partners have worked for more than eight years in novel approaches to characterize bio-oils produced from diverse agricultural and forest feedstock's.
"Major contributions have been made in the use of new analytical approaches to characterize these complex liquids. Instead of using analytical techniques targeting individual compounds, our research targets characterization approaches that emphasize chemical groups or fractions. This approach is very useful for creating a rational platform for new refineries."
As the importance of biomass for fuels, chemicals, building materials, and clothing continues to increase, students must learn how to integrate thermal, biological, chemical and mechanical conversion approaches to utilize these resources.
"University professors must be motivators and use available opportunities to tell stories of success and to introduce great researchers and business people as models. We must also recognize the achievements of our students and encourage them to work for their dreams."
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Research Corner: Dr. Manuel Garcia-PérezSeptember 24, 2018 | Pullman, WA Our world's dependency on fossil fuels is one of the biggest challenges facing society today. The planet's fossil fuel reserves are declining and the side effects of extracting and using these fuels are damaging our environment. Thus, a top priority amongst researchers is finding a cleaner, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. At Washington State University, one researcher is taking a unique approach to this global challenge. [Continue Reading on the WSU Research PageRead more on the WSU Research Page: Research Corner: Dr. … » More …Read Story
WSU researchers develop material that could save honey bees
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Ph.D. student earns international prize for heat research
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Identification of key problems in chemical processes and their causes using cost and quality criteria
Generation, screening, evaluation, design and implementation of alternatives to solve engineering problems
Use of computer techniques, numerical methods, statistical techniques, optimization, modelling and chemical engineering principles to study and improve the performance of chemical plants
Project conception and implementation (at laboratory, bench and pilot scale) to determine the best operational and design parameters for a desired application
Use of analytical techniques (proximate and elemental analysis, TG/DTG, DSC, GPC, GC, UV-Fluorescence, Karl-Fischer titration, GC/MS, Py-GC/MS, ESCA, FTIR, microscopy, steady and dynamic rheology, ASTM fuel characterization methods, ash characterization techniques etc) to study the behaviour of complex materials in industrial units.
Special training in: Thermochemical conversion of biomass, Applications of Pitch, Coke, Bio-oils and Char, Fuel characterization techniques, mineral processing technologies, hydrogen production, liquids and solid combustion,fuel spray characterization, droplets evaporation and combustion kinetics,application of products from Thermochemical reactions of biomass. Bio-oil based refinery concepts.
Associate Professor, Dept. Biological Systems Engineering,Washington State University; Pullman, WA. Working in fundamental studies to understand cellulose and lignin pyrolysis mechanisms. The development of selective pyrolysis reactors and bio-refinery concepts to convert bio-oils into bio-fuels and bio-chemicals.
2013 – present.
Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Systems Engineering,Washington State University; Pullman, WA. Developing a program in Biomass Thermochemical Conversion. 2007 – 2013.
Post doctoral research fellow, Monash University; Melbourne, Australia. Responsible for the improvement of a fast pyrolysis reactor to produce bio-oils from Mallee trees. Characterization, up-grading and combustion of bio-oils and chars. Study of generation of oligomers during pyrolysis. 2006 – 2007
University of Georgia and EPRIDA (Athens, Georgia, USA). In charge of improving and designing of Thermochemical reactors and analytical laboratories. The main responsibility was to improve and design Thermochemical reactors (Continuous Auger and Batch pyrolysis reactors) and to identify and install new analytical equipments (DSC/TG-MS, Karl-Fischer, Rota-evaporators, GC analyser, CHNS-O, Proximate analysers) for a Thermochemical laboratory. Development of new applications for pyrolysis products in the agriculture. Study of fuel properties of bio-oil/bio-diesel blends. 2005 – 2006
LAVAL UNIVERSITY; Quebec City, Canada. CANMET (Advanced Combustion Technologies, NRCan); Ottawa, Canada and PYROVAC; Quebec City, Canada. In charge of a project to study the fuel properties of vacuum pyrolysis oils obtained from wood industry residues. Scholarship of Doctorate from the Laval University Foundation. 1 month of internship at the "CO2 solution" pilot plant. 2001 – 2005
Post-doc at the Chemical Engineering Department. Monash University; Melbourne, Australia. 2006-07
Post-doc at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept, Univ. of Georgia; Athens, Georgia, USA. 2005-06
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Universite Laval; Quebec, Canada; 2005.
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering, Universite Lava; Quebec, Canada; 2001
M.Eng. in Process Engineering, University of Orient; Santiago de Cuba; 1998
B.E. in Chemical Engineering, University of Orient; Santiago de Cuba; 1995
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Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5
RAY K. LINSLEY 1917-1990
National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5
Tribute Author
Professor Robert L. Smith
Mr. Ray K. Linsley
ReleasedAugust 1, 1992
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This is the fifth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and international members. These volumes are intended to stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased.
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HERBERT ALLEN 1907-1990
LUIS W. ALVAREZ 1911-1988
ARSHAM AMIRIKIAN 1899-1990
JAMES BLISS AUSTIN 1904-1988
ROY BAINER 1902-1990
WILLIAM B. BERGEN 1915-1987
JAMES BOYD 1904-1987
ROY W. CARLSON 1900-1990
LEO CASAGRANDE 1903-1990
CARL COVALT CHAMBERS 1907-1987
ARTHUR A. COLLINS 1909-1987
THOMAS W. DAKIN 1915-1990
RICHARD W. DAMON 1923-1991
DUNCAN S. DAVIES 1921-1987
RICHARD D. DELAUER 1918-1990
JACOB PIETER DEN HARTOG 1901-1989
JOSEPH K. DILLARD 1917-1988
CHARLES W. ELSTON 1914-1989
MARS G. FONTANA 1910-1988
Michael L. Haider 1904-1986
PAUL D. HANEY 1911-1990
RAYMOND J. HODGE 1922-1990
GEORGE EDWARD HOLBROOK 1909-1987
J. HERBERT HOLLOMON 1919-1985
RAYMOND W. KETCHLEDGE 1919-1987
GARBIS HVANNES KEULEGAN 1890-1989
JAMES R. KILLIAN, JR. 1904-1988
AUGUST UNO LAMM 1904-1989
HELMUT E. LANDSBERG 1906-1985
LESTER LEES 1920-1986
BENJAMIN G. LEVICH 1917-1987
W. BENNETT LEWIS 1908-1987
JOHN A. LOGAN 1908-1987
BERNARD D. LOUGHLIN 1917-1988
YI-SHENG MAO 1896-1989
SACHIO MATOBA 1899-1987
STEWART E. MILLER 1918-1990
RICHARD STETSON MORSE 1911-1988
GERALD L. PEARSON 1905-1987
KENDALL PERKINS 1908-1987
DEAN F. PETERSON 1913-1989
SAMUEL COCHRAN PHILLIPS 1921-1990
JAN A. RAJCHMAN 1911-1989
WILLIAM BRADFORD WHITEHILL RAND 1902-1988
PHILIP C. RUTLEDGE 1906-1990
WARREN F. SAVAGE 1922-1988
HARRY BOLTON SEED 1922-1989
FRED N. SEVERUD 1899-1990
WILLIAM PENCE SLICHTER 1922-1990
EUGENE C. STARR 1901-1988
CHARLES W. STEPHENS 1930-1990
ELI STERNBERG 1917-1988
ALDERT VAN DER ZIEL 1910-1991
EUGENE W. WEBER 1910-1989
ABEL WOLMAN 1892-1989
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BY ROBERT L. SMITH
Ray K. Linsley, internationally known hydrologist and water resources engineer, died November 6, 1990, at the age of seventy-three. Professor Linsley was born January 13, 1917, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was educated at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and graduated with a B.S. in civil engineering. He retired from a distinguished career at Stanford University in 1975. At the time of his death he was president of Linsley, Kraeger Associates Ltd., Santa Cruz, California.
Ray was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of his worldwide leadership in the field of engineering hydrology. He was a dedicated professional with a legendary reputation for contributing his time and efforts to improving the quality of engineering practice.
After several years as a young engineer with the Tennessee Valley Authority, Linsley spent a decade pursuing hydrologic tasks with the U.S. Weather Bureau. It was during this period, in 1949, that his first book, jointly authored with colleagues M. A. Kohler and J. L. H. Paulhus, appeared. At the close of his tenure with the Weather Bureau, he was serving as assistant chief, Division of Climatological and Hydrologic Services, in charge of hydrologic activities, including river forecasting, data collection, and hydrometeorological studies. He left the Bureau in 1950 to begin an illustrious twenty-five-year career at Stanford University.
During his tenure at Stanford, he fulfilled some very signifi cant administrative roles in addition to his primary teaching and research efforts. He was head of the Department of Civil Engineering from 1956 to 1967 and associate dean from 1966 to 1968. In addition he was cofounder and director of the Program in Engineering-Economic Planning from 1962 to 1971. He was also a productive author during this period. Elements of Hydraulic Engineering, coauthored with Professor J. Franzini, appeared in 1955, to be followed in 1958 by Hydrology for Engineers, again with former colleagues Kohler and Paulhus. The latter publication, as well as the Linsley-Franzini effort recast in 1964 as Water Resources Engineering, enjoyed multiedition success. Suffice it to say, these textbooks have had an enormous educational influence in the fields of engineering hydrology and water resources engineering, both in this country and throughout the world.
Four salient points should be noted relative to Linsley's academic career. First, as previously indicated, he was the senior author of the most widely used textbooks in his field. Second, he pursued an extensive research effort that produced an outstanding group of doctoral graduates, many of whom are currently recognized as emerging leaders in the field. Third, his research program pioneered the development of digital simulation models in engineering hydrology—models now commonly used in hydropower, flood control, water supply, and water quality studies. Fourth, in cooperation with others at Stanford he pioneered the development of a program in engineering-economic planning. This was an effort to improve the profession by stressing the planning process as distinct from design. It sought to prepare engineers to undertake the planning process with direct regard for social, political, environmental, and economic considerations in addition to the technical engineering aspects. Few, if any, can match this diversity of distinguished academic success.
Ray's educational efforts extended far beyond this nation. Early on he served as Fulbright Professor of Hydrology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. Less formal efforts took him to Japan and Australia. His most unique and extensive contribution to international education came during the period 1966–1981 when he served as academic director of the graduate course in water resources at the University of the Andes in Venezuela. In this program he directed efforts to educate engineers from all over Latin America. Sponsored by the Venezuelan Ministry of Public Works, the program awarded an M.S. after three consecutive summers of study.
Linsley's career also included significant elements of public practice and service. In 1964–1965 he was chairman of the Committee on Water Resources Research (COWRR) of the Federal Council for Science and Technology and a special assistant for water resources in the Office of Science and Technology (OST). At OST he was responsible for handling specific problems of national water resources policy as requested by the White House. As chairman of COWRR he was directly responsible for the coordination of federal water resources research scattered throughout more than twenty federal agencies. In 1968 President Johnson appointed Linsley a member of the National Water Commission. The commission's task was to undertake a multiyear, multimillion- dollar study of U.S. water policy and to report back to the President and Congress. The resulting report, even today, remains one of the most objective examinations of water policy ever undertaken. Over the years he was also a member of several National Research Council committees.
Many have commented over the years on the pragmatic essence of his research and publications. This was undoubtedly a reflection of his long association with private-sector problems. He served for a number of years as vice-president of the consulting firm of Bradbury and Associates. Later he was a cofounder and initial chairman of Hydrocomp International, a hydrologic modeling firm in Palo Alto. Subsequently, he became president of Linsley, Kraeger Associates Ltd., the position he held at the time of his death. In his continuing efforts to improve both public-and private-sector practice, he became a prime mover in the formation of the American Institute of Hydrology. He later became the institute's honorary president, and an award was created in his name.
Ray's many efforts and accomplishments led to numerous awards from peers in this country and abroad. The American Society of Civil Engineers bestowed on him the Collingwood Prize in 1942 and its Julian Hinds Award in 1978. Later in 1978 the society elevated him to the status of honorary member. He was the recipient of the American Water Resources Association's Icko Iben Award in 1974. His alma mater, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the College of the Pacific awarded him honorary doctoral degrees. Internationally, both the Venezuelan Society of Hydraulic Engineers and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers granted him honorary membership. There were many more.
Ray Linsley was a true giant of the profession. The citation upon his election to the National Academy of Engineering read, for "leadership in hydrology and water resources planning through distinguished teaching, research, professional practice and service to the government." It could not have been stated better.
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