Applied Mathematics Books

New and Published Books

1. Environmental Fluid Mechanics

   Memorial Volume in honour of Prof. Gerhard H. Jirka

   Edited by Wolfgang Rodi, Markus Uhlmann

   Series: IAHR Monographs

   This volume contains the papers of invited lectures presented at the Memorial Colloquium on Environmental Fluid Mechanics, held on June 3 and 4, 2011, in Karlsruhe, Germany in honour of the late Professor Gerhard H. Jirka, who passed away unexpectedly in February 2010. With both the colloquium and...

   Published May 24th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Monte Carlo Simulation with Applications to Finance

   By Hui Wang

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series

   Developed from the author’s course on Monte Carlo simulation at Brown University, Monte Carlo Simulation with Applications to Finance provides a self-contained introduction to Monte Carlo methods in financial engineering. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking a...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Distributed Strategic Learning for Wireless Engineers

   By Hamidou Tembine

   Establishing the link between several theories, this book demonstrates what is needed to learn strategic interaction in wireless networks under uncertainty, randomness, and time delays. This robust game theory cookbook analyzes games where some parameters are uncertain and random. Starting with the...

   Published May 17th 2012 by CRC Press
4. Interactions between Land Use and Flood Management in the Chi River Basin

   Unesco-IHE

   By Kittiwet Kuntiyawichai

   The damages and hardships caused by floods and flooding remain an issue and are continuously increasing in the Chi River Basin, Thailand. It is difficult to make an accurate assessment of the costs and consequences associated with floods. However, flood hazards can also be seen as an opportunity, a...

   Published May 10th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Instabilities of Flows and Transition to Turbulence

   By Tapan K. Sengupta

   Addressing classical material as well as new perspectives, Instabilities of Flows and Transition to Turbulence presents a concise, up-to-date treatment of theory and applications of viscous flow instability. It covers materials from classical instability to contemporary research areas including...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
6. The Divergence Theorem and Sets of Finite Perimeter

   By Washek F. Pfeffer

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics

   This book is devoted to a detailed development of the divergence theorem. The framework is that of Lebesgue integration — no generalized Riemann integrals of Henstock–Kurzweil variety are involved. In Part I the divergence theorem is established by a combinatorial argument involving dyadic cubes....

   Published April 11th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
7. Quantum Principles and Particles

   By Walter Wilcox

   A Novel Pedagogical Approach to Quantum Mechanics "A physical understanding is a completely unmathematical, imprecise, and inexact thing, but absolutely necessary for a physicist." —R. Feynman The core of modern physics, quantum theory is counter-intuitive and challenging for those new to the field...

   Published April 5th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Transcendental Representations with Applications to Solids and Fluids

   By Luis Manuel Braga da Costa Campos

   Series: Mathematics and Physics for Science and Technology

   Building on the author’s previous book in the series, Complex Analysis with Applications to Flows and Fields (CRC Press, 2010), Transcendental Representations with Applications to Solids and Fluids focuses on four infinite representations: series expansions, series of fractions for meromorphic...

   Published April 3rd 2012 by CRC Press
9. Economic Time Series

   Modeling and Seasonality

   Edited by William R. Bell, Scott H. Holan, Tucker S. McElroy

   Economic Time Series: Modeling and Seasonality is a focused resource on analysis of economic time series as pertains to modeling and seasonality, presenting cutting-edge research that would otherwise be scattered throughout diverse peer-reviewed journals. This compilation of 21 chapters showcases...

   Published March 18th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
10. Elements of Heat Transfer

    By Ethirajan Rathakrishnan

    Written for chemical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering students taking courses on heat and mass transfer, this textbook presents the basics and proceeds to the required theory and its application aspects. Major topics covered include conduction, convection, radiation, boiling, heat exchangers,...

    Published March 4th 2012 by CRC Press