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Variational methods for engineers with Matlab®

By Cursi , Eduardo Souza de

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Year
2015
ISBN
978-1-84821-914-4, 9781119230120, 1119230128, 9781119230144, 1119230144, 1848219148
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15931487 bytes)
Series
Numerical methods in engineering series
Edition
1
Pages
430\335
Time added
2016-01-24 03:00:00
Математика;Вычислительная математика;Метод конечны

Description

This book is issued from a 30 years’ experience on the presentation of variational methods to successive generations of students and researchers in Engineering. It gives a comprehensive, pedagogical and engineer-oriented presentation of the foundations of variational methods and of their use in numerical problems of Engineering. Particular applications to linear and nonlinear systems of equations, differential equations, optimization and control are presented. MATLAB programs illustrate the implementation and make the book suitable as a textbook and for self-study. The evolution of knowledge, of the engineering studies and of the society in general has led to a change of focus from students and researchers. New generations of students and researchers do not have the same relations to mathematics as the previous ones. In the particular case of variational methods, the presentations used in the past are not adapted to the previous knowledge, the language and the centers of interest of the new generations. Since these methods remain a core knowledge – thus essential - in many fields (Physics, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Image analysis …), a new presentation is necessary in order to address variational methods to the actual context.

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