Engineering

  • MATLAB - A Fundamental Tool for Scientific Computing and Engineering Applications - Volume 1
    MATLAB - A Fundamental Tool for Scientific Computing and Engineering Applications - Volume 1
    Editor Vasilios N. Katsikis
    ISBN 978-953-51-0750-7
    520 pages, September, 2012
    Downloads: 7167
    This is the first book in a three-volume series deploying MATLAB-based applications in almost every branch of science. This volume, presents interesting topics from different areas of engineering, signal and image processing based on the MATLAB envir ...
  • Tribology in Engineering
    Tribology in Engineering NEW
    Editor Haşim Pihtili
    ISBN 978-953-51-1126-9
    240 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 285
    The main goal in preparing this book was to publish contemporary concepts, new discoveries and innovative ideas in the field of surface engineering, predominantly for the technical applications, as well as in the field of production engineering and t ...
  • Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Search Algorithms for Engineering Optimization
    Editor Taufik Abrão
    ISBN 978-953-51-0983-9
    284 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1951
    Heuristic Search is an important sub-discipline of optimization theory and finds applications in a vast variety of fields, including life science and engineering. Search methods have been useful in solving tough engineering-oriented problems that eit ...
  • Diesel Engine - Combustion, Emissions and Condition Monitoring
    Diesel Engine - Combustion, Emissions and Condition Monitoring NEW
    Editor Saiful Bari
    ISBN 978-953-51-1120-7
    266 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 367
    Diesel engines, also known as CI engines, possess a wide field of applications as energy converters because of their higher efficiency. However, diesel engines are a major source of NOX and particulate matter (PM) emissions. Because of its importance ...
  • Operations Management
    Operations Management
    Editor Massimiliano M. Schiraldi
    ISBN 978-953-51-1013-2
    240 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1055
    Operations Management is an area of business concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into outputs, in the form of goods and/or services. Increasingly complex environments together with the recent economic swings and substantially s ...
  • Solar Cells - Research and Application Perspectives
    Solar Cells - Research and Application Perspectives
    Editor Arturo Morales-Acevedo
    ISBN 978-953-51-1003-3
    369 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1150
    Over the last decade, photovoltaic (PV) technology has shown the potential to become a major source of power generation for the world - with robust and continuous growth even during times of financial and economic crisis. That growth is expected to c ...
  • Water Resources Planning, Development and Management
    Water Resources Planning, Development and Management NEW
    Editor Ralph Wurbs
    ISBN 978-953-51-1092-7
    182 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 209
    This book is a collection of innovative up-to-date perspectives on key aspects of water resources planning, development, and management of importance to both professional practitioners and researchers. Authors with outstanding expertise address a bro ...
  • Thermal Power Plants - Advanced Applications
    Thermal Power Plants - Advanced Applications
    Editor Mohammad Rasul
    ISBN 978-953-51-1095-8
    178 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 521
    Thermal power plants are one of the most important process industries for engineering professionals. Over the past decades, the power sector is facing a number of critical issues; however, the most fundamental challenge is meeting the growing power d ...
  • Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Theory and Applications of Monte Carlo Simulations
    Editor Victor (Wai Kin) Chan
    ISBN 978-953-51-1012-5
    276 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 1112
    The purpose of this book is to introduce researchers and practitioners to recent advances and applications of Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS). Random sampling is the key of the MCS technique. The 11 chapters of this book collectively illustrates how suc ...
  • Analog Circuits
    Analog Circuits
    Editor Yuping Wu
    ISBN 978-953-51-0930-3
    119 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 1916
    The invariable motif for analog design is to explore the new circuit topologies, architectures and CAD technologies to overcome the design challenges coming from the new applications and new fabrication technologies. In this book, a new architecture ...
  • Application of Solar Energy
    Application of Solar Energy
    Editor Radu Rugescu
    ISBN 978-953-51-0969-3
    193 pages, February, 2013
    Downloads: 1483
    The present science book "Application of Solar Energy" is edited by Professor R. D. Rugescu in the series on Solar Power and consists of 7 chapters that begin with the proof of the high thermal efficiency of the gravitational draught through concent ...
  • Electric Machines and Drives
    Electric Machines and Drives
    Editor Miroslav Chomat
    ISBN 978-953-307-548-8
    262 pages, February, 2011
    Downloads: 11239
    The subject of this book is an important and diverse field of electric machines and drives. The twelve chapters of the book written by renowned authors, both academics and practitioners, cover a large part of the field of electric machines and drives ...
  • Digital Filters and Signal Processing
    Digital Filters and Signal Processing
    Editor Fausto Pedro García Márquez and Noor Zaman
    ISBN 978-953-51-0871-9
    307 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 1586
    Digital filters, together with signal processing, are being employed in the new technologies and information systems, and are implemented in different areas and applications. Digital filters and signal processing are used with no costs and they can b ...
  • Biomass Now - Sustainable Growth and Use
    Biomass Now - Sustainable Growth and Use NEW
    Editor Miodrag Darko Matovic
    ISBN 978-953-51-1105-4
    540 pages, April, 2013
    Downloads: 272
    This two-volume book on biomass is a reflection of the increase in biomass related research and applications, driven by overall higher interest in sustainable energy and food sources, by increased awareness of potentials and pitfalls of using biomass ...
  • Fourier Transform - Signal Processing
    Fourier Transform - Signal Processing
    Editor Salih Mohammed Salih
    ISBN 978-953-51-0453-7
    354 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 4982
    The field of signal processing has seen explosive growth during the past decades; almost all textbooks on signal processing have a section devoted to the Fourier transform theory. For this reason, this book focuses on the Fourier transform applicatio ...
  • Imaging and Radioanalytical Techniques in Interdisciplinary Research - Fundamentals and Cutting Edge Applications
    Imaging and Radioanalytical Techniques in Interdisciplinary Research - Fundamentals and Cutting Edge Applications
    Editor Faycal Kharfi
    ISBN 978-953-51-1033-0
    192 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 822
    The overall goal of this book is to promote research and development of imaging and radioanalytical techniques by publishing high-quality chapters in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field. This book discusses the principles and applications of ...
  • Clean Energy Systems and Experiences
    Clean Energy Systems and Experiences
    Editor Kei Eguchi
    ISBN 978-953-307-147-3
    178 pages, October, 2010
    Downloads: 11072
    This book reports the latest developments and trends in "clean energy systems and experiences". The contributors to each chapter are energy scientists and engineers with strong expertise in their respective fields. This book offers a forum for exchan ...
  • Ultra-Wideband Radio Technologies for Communications, Localization and Sensor Applications
    Ultra-Wideband Radio Technologies for Communications, Localization and Sensor Applications
    Editor Reiner Thomä, Reinhard H. Knöchel, Jürgen Sachs, Ingolf Willms and Thomas Zwick
    ISBN 978-953-51-0936-5
    488 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 801
    Ultra-Wideband Radio (UWB) earmarks a new radio access philosophy and exploits several GHz of bandwidth. It promises high data rate communication over short distances as well as innovative radar sensing and localization applications with unprecedente ...
  • Modeling and Control Aspects of Wind Power Systems
    Modeling and Control Aspects of Wind Power Systems
    Editor S. M. Muyeen, Ahmed Al-Durra and Hany M. Hasanien
    ISBN 978-953-51-1042-2
    203 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 712
    This book covers the recent development and progress of the wind energy conversion system. The chapters are contributed by prominent researchers in the field of wind energy and cover grid integration issues, modern control theories applied in wind e ...
  • New Developments in Renewable Energy
    New Developments in Renewable Energy
    Editor Hasan Arman and Ibrahim Yuksel
    ISBN 978-953-51-1040-8
    407 pages, March, 2013
    Downloads: 781
    Renewable energy is defined as the energy which naturally occurs, covers a number of sources and technologies at different stages, and is theoretically inexhaustible. Renewable energy sources such as those who are generated from sun or wind are the m ...