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Applications of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics

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Applications of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics by Kam Tim Chau is a detailed reference text focusing on the mathematical techniques for solving differential equations encountered in engineering and mechanics.

The book covers a broad array of topics including beams and columns, plates and shells, structural dynamics, cable suspension bridges, nonlinear buckling, fluid transport and waves, geophysical flows, nonlinear waves and solitons, Maxwell and Schrödinger equations, celestial mechanics, and fracture dynamics.

It serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers working on multi-disciplinary problems in engineering mechanics, climate science, and nanotechnology.
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This book is suited to advanced students, researchers, and professionals in engineering, mechanics, applied mathematics, and related fields seeking a comprehensive understanding of differential equations applied to real-world problems.

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Comprehensive coverage of the essential differential equations students are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems -- alongside a preliminary companion text on theory. This covers a very broad range of problems, with a focus on the mathematical technique for solving the differential equations involved.

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This second of two comprehensive reference texts on differential equations continues coverage of the essential material students are likely to encounter in solving engineering and mechanics problems across the field—alongside a preliminary volume on theory.

Applications of Differential Equations in Engineering and Mechanics covers a very broad range of problems, including beams and columns, plates, shells, structural dynamics, catenary and cable suspension bridges, nonlinear buckling, transports and waves in fluids, geophysical fluid flows, nonlinear waves and solitons, Maxwell equations, Schrödinger equations, celestial mechanics, and fracture mechanics and dynamics. The focus is on the mathematical technique for solving the differential equations involved.

All readers who are concerned with and interested in engineering mechanics problems, climate change, and nanotechnology will find topics covered in this book providing valuable information and mathematical background for their multi-disciplinary research and education.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367026431

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 December 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 17 Tables, black and white; 288 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 293 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 1179g

Pages: 830

About the Author

Professor K.T. Chau is Chair Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and former Associate Dean (Research and Development) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he was awarded the "Teaching Excellence Award in 2012/2013" by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and past President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is the Chairman of the Elasticity Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE, the Chairman of the TC103 Technical Committee of Numerical Methods on Geomechanics of International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the Chairman of the Geomechanics Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME. He is also the Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Science. His book "Analytic Methods in Geomechanics" was published in 2013 by CRC Press, and it is the first book of its kind, covering, continuum mechanics, tensor analysis, 2-D elasticity, 3-D elasticity, plasticity, fracture mechanics, viscoelasticity, poroelasticity, and dynamics and waves in geomaterials. Since 2012, he has been teaching subjects called "Engineering Analysis" and "Engineering Analysis & Computation" at PolyU. They are mainly using differential equations in engineering analysis.

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