What Every Engineer Should Know about MATLAB® and Simulink®

by Adrian B. Biran

Overview

Using examples from mathematics, mechanical and electrical engineering, and control and signal processing, this book provides an introduction to MATLAB and Simulink and examines the advantages and limitations of both. The author demonstrates how to visualize the results of calculations in various kinds of graphical representations, how to write useful script files and functions for solving specific problems, how to avoid disastrous, computational errors, and how to insert calculations and graphs into technical reports produced by either MS Word or LaTeX. Companion software with functions and script files are available online.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040062395
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	07/20/2010
Series:	What Every Engineer Should Know
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	451
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Adrian B. Biran is on the faculty of mechanical engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. He received his MSc and DSc from that same school, as well as a Diplomat Engineer degree from the Bucharest Polytechnic Institute. He worked extensively in design in Romania at IPRONAV-The Institute of Ship Projects, the Bucharest Studios and IPA-The Institute of Automation Projects. In Israel, he worked in design at the Israel Shipyards, and in research on Naval Architectural subjects at the Technion Research and Development Foundation. In parallel, he worked as a project instructor in Romania at the Technical Military Academy, in Israel at the Beer Sheva University (now the Ben Gurion University). Since 1972, Biran has served as an adjunct teacher in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technion, and for the last 15 years as Adjunct Associate Professor. He has taught subjects including Machine Design, Engineering Drawing, and especially Naval Architecture. He has authored several papers on subjects such as computational linguistics and computer simulations of marine systems and subjects belonging to Ship Design. He also wrote a book on ships for popular audience and a book on Ship Hydrostatics and Stability published in English and Turkish. Together with Moshe Breiner he wrote a book on MATLAB for Engineers that was published in three English, three German, two French, and two Greek editions.

Moshe Breiner graduated from the Scuola Normale di Pisa and the Universita degli Studi di Pisa and obtained a Ph.D degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has worked in modeling and simulations and taught MATLAB.

Table of Contents

I: Introducing MATLABIntroduction to MATLAB. Vectors and matrices. Equations. Processing and publishing the results.II: Programming in MATLABSome facts about numerical computing. Data types and object-oriented programming.III: Progressing in MATLABComplex numbers. Numerical integration. Ordinary differential equations. More graphics. An introduction to Simulink. Applications in the frequency domain. Answers to selected questions. Bibliography. Index.