Advances in Numerical Methods / Edition 1

by Nikos Mastorakis, John Sakellaris

Overview

Recent Advances in Numerical Methods features contributions from distinguished researchers focused on significant aspects of current numerical methods and computational mathematics. This volume meets the need in the community for new computational methods that can solve complex scientific and engineering problems by presenting innovative methods that provide numerical solutions in effective computing times. Each chapter presents new and advanced methods and modern variations of known techniques that can solve difficult scientific problems efficiently and quickly.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387764825
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/13/2009
Series:	Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering , #11
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

Table of Contents

Applied mathematics.- Similarity solutions of an MHD boundary-layer flow of a non-Newtonian fluid past a continuous moving surface.- Computational complexity investigations for-high-dimensional model representation algorithms used in multivariate interpolation problems.- On competition between modes of the onset of Marangoni convection with free-slip bottom under magnetic field.- Mathematical modeling of boundary layer flow over a moving thin needle with variable heat flux.- The parallel three-processor fifth-order diagonally implicit Runge–Kutta methods for-solving ordinary differential equations.- Comparative study of production control systems through simulation.- A DEA and goal programming approach to demand assignment problem.- Space–time mixture model of infant mortality in-peninsular Malaysia from 1990 to 2000.- A novel hybrid high-dimensional model representation (HDMR) based on the combination of plain and logarithmic high-dimensional model representations.- A decision support system to evaluate the competitiveness of nations.- Numerical analysis for kinetics and yield of wood biomass pyrolysis.- Maintenance of the pre-large trees for record deletion.- ALE method in the EFG crystal growth technique.- Application of e-learning methods in the curricula of the faculty of computer science.- Hierarchical Bayesian approach for ranking of accident blackspots with reference to cost of accidents.- Circuits, systems, electronics, control and signal processing.- Impulsive noise removal image ehancement technique.- Similarity-based model for transliteration.- Heart rate variation adaptive filtering based on a special model.- Performance evaluation of table-driven and buffer-adaptive WLANs.- A new algorithm in blind source separation for high-dimensional data setssuch as MEG data.- Visible light source temperature estimation using digital camera photography.- Discrete decentralized observation of large-scale interconnected systems.- Improved iterative blind image deconvolution.- Design of a linear quadratic Gaussian controller for a manufacturing process.- 3D reconstruction and isometric representation of engineering drawings.- Implementation of the box-counting method in radiographic images.- Aeroelastic simulation of wind turbine blades.- Time-delay telerobot system control model research.- Hardware implementation of a multidimensional signal analysis system.- Space-filling fractal microstrip antenna.- Reliability assessment and improvement of medium power induction motor winding insulation protection system using predictive analysis.- Feature extraction by wavelet transforms to analyze the heart rate variability during two meditation techniques.- Fractional mechanical model for the dynamics of non-local continuum.- Fuzzy control for shape memory alloy tendon-actuated robotic structure.- Implementing delayed file loading functions.