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How can one be assured that computer codes that solve differential equations are correct? Standard practice using benchmark testing no longer provides full coverage because today's production codes solve more complex equations using more powerful algorithms. By verifying the order-of-accuracy of the numerical algorithm implemented in the code, one can detect most any coding mistake that would prevent correct solutions from being computed. Verification of Computer Codes in Computational Science and Engineering sets forth a powerful alternative called OVMSP: Order-Verification via the Manufactured Solution Procedure. This procedure has two primary components: using the Method of Manufactured Exact Solutions to create analytic solutions to the fully-general differential equations solved by the code and using grid convergence studies to confirm the order-of-accuracy. The authors present a step-by-step procedural guide to OVMSP implementation and demonstrate its effectiveness.Properly implemented, OVMSP offers an exciting opportunity to identify virtually all coding 'bugs' that prevent correct solution of the governing partial differential equations. Verification of Computer Codes in Computational Science and Engineering shows you how this can be done. The treatment is clear, concise, and suitable both for developers of production quality simulation software and as a reference for computational science and engineering professionals. ... Read more

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Recent global anxiety indicates that more focus needs to be directed at economic issues related to industry. Conventional techniques often do not adequately embrace the integrated global factors that affect unique industries and industry focused computational tools have not been readily available. Until now. Computational Economic Analysis for Engineering and Industry presents direct computational tools, techniques, models, and approaches for economic analysis with a specific focus on industrial and engineering processes.

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Pick a different book
This book is terrible.The book has numerous errors and is filled with awkward text.If your professor requires this book for a class then he or she probably has an economic or professional interest in the book.At a minimum, the learning process is hampered by this book.With that said, my copy is for sale on Amazon.

Hm...could be better, MUCH better.
For a first edition, this book had some major flaws.Subsequent editions could have some promise.However, after using it for a required course in strategic cost management, (a required text as per one of the authors...interesting) major equation mistakes and poor readability made this a VERY bad choice for any cost or economics course.In fact, I would venture to say that this book should be shelved indefinitely by the authors until a second edition and major rewrites are accomplished.

Overall, (after personally using and reading over 20 different economics and cost texts over the years), this is by far the worst and most confusing book written on the subject. ... Read more

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This volume includes a selection of papers that were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Computing in Civil and Structural Engineering, held at Cambridge, England, 28-30 August 1995. ... Read more

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The field of Large Eddy Simulations is reaching a level of maturity that brings this approach to the mainstream of engineering computations, while it opens opportunities and challenges. The main objective of this volume is to bring together leading experts in presenting the state-of-the-art and emerging approaches for treating complex effects in LES. A common theme throughout is the role of LES in the context of multiscale modeling and simulation.

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Novel learning algorithms for SMART engineering, data mining
For a researcher and graduate student, the Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks: proceedings of Aritificial Neural Networks In Engineering Conference (ANNIE) is a excellent book for you. I have Volume 12 from ANNIE'02 conference on November 10-13, 2002 at Marriott Pavilion Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. While I read this volume, I have known a lot of novel methods about data mining, pattern recognition, neural networks and fuzzy systems. It can increase your idea and novel techniques. ... Read more

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The principal objective of this volume is to present a collection of ideas from engineers and scientists of the Asia-Pacific region in the fields of computational engineering. The contributors originate from over ten countries in the Pan-Pacific region including Australia, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, and USA. Up-to-date research results are encompassed by this volume, reflecting the current activities of researchers in the region. It is the intention that the contributions will encourage cooperation among research workers and practitioners of computational engineering. ... Read more

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The application of computer modelling using numerical techniques is a fast developing field in acoustics. Many practical acoustic problems, such as room acoustics, environmental noise propagation and transducer design, cannot be solved by closed form analytical solutions and in the past have been handled using simplified approximations which are very limited in the scope of application and detail and accuracy which they can provide. Numerical techniques in acoustics have undergone tremendous development over the past two decades, spurred on by the need for more accurate and detailed modelling and made practical by the rapid increase in affordable desktop computing power.

The major numerical techniques which can be applied to acoustic transducer design, room acoustics prediction, environmental noise modelling, and other general modelling of noise radiation and diffraction are brought together. The basic principles are covered, but the book emphasises the application of the techniques and is illustrated with cases. This makes it a reference for undergraduates, postgraduates who are starting their research, and engineers in industry who need to find a solution for a specific practical problem.

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This book comprises of the edited proceedings of a seminar onenvironmental modelling. It provides a comprehensive overview ofcurrent environmental problems and the progress achieved in theirnumerical simulation. ... Read more

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The emergence of modern solid modelling systems and geometry-based applications, such as automatic mesh generation techniques, has led the design community to focus their efforts on exploiting these relatively new technologies for the optimal design of structures. This book provides an overview of structural design and includes coupling self-adaptive techniques, optimization and design sensitivity analysis. ... Read more

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There has been a substantial increase in the use of mathematical methods for modeling in natural and engineering sciences. Among a great variety of problems that have been solved successfully, are inverse problems. Inverse thermal problems involve the evaluation of boundary or initial conditions as well as thermal properties of a body from the remaining boundary or some internal conditions. This encompasses thermal designing, process controlling, optimum planning of experiments and interpretation of experimental results.The success of any method for solving inverse problems lies not only in using elegant mathematical formulae but also in the stability of results when experimental data are used. This book presents a comprehensive study of efficient methods for solving inverse thermal problems. ... Read more

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The subject of the book is the comprehensive consideration of uncertainty in the numerical analysis, the safety assessment, and the design of structures. Stochastic as well as non-stochastic uncertainty is treated on the basis of the superordinated uncertainty model fuzzy randomness. This new uncertainty model contains the special cases of real valued random variables and fuzzy variables and permits to take account of both uncertainty characteristics simultaneously. The book introduces to the problem of uncertainty and provides a current survey of relevant uncertainty models and their application in civil engineering. The necessary, special mathematical basics of the fuzzy set theory and the theory of fuzzy random variables are explained in an engineering manner and illustrated by way of examples. Basic ideas and methods for appropriately quantifying uncertain structural parameters are presented and demonstrated by means of characteristic examples. For processing uncertainty in structural analysis, safety assessment, and structural design completely new algorithms are introduced and described in detail as fuzzy structural analysis, fuzzy probabilistic safety assessment, and fuzzy cluster design. The application of the new methods is demonstrated for selected examples from civil engineering, their essential advantages are emphasized. For the first time this represents a coherent, overall concept for considering uncertainty in civil engineering.

The book in particular addresses to civil engineers and requires a university degree as well as basic knowledge in stochastics. But also for mechanical engineers, colleagues from applied mathematics, and other people who are interested in uncertainty problems the book represents a suitable introduction to the problem of uncertainty modeling and provides general solutions and algorithms, which may also be applied to problems from other fields beyond engineering.

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All papers have been peer-reviewed. The aim of ICCMSE 2007 is to bring together computational scientists and engineers from several disciplines in order to share methods, methodologies and ideas. The potential readers of these proceedings are all the scientists with interest in the following fields: Computational Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Computational Physics, Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Computational Biology and Medicine, Scientific Computation, High Performance Computing, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Visualization, Problem Solving Environments, Software Tools, Advanced Numerical Algorithms, Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems, Web-based Simulation and Computing, Grid-based Simulation and Computing, Computational Grids, and Computer Science.

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Assessing the engineering integrity of materials, components, structures and systems is a fundamental requirement of engineering design and analysis. The ubiquity of the computer and the development of sophisticated software and testing facilities, have led to simulation models which can reliably predict behaviour and performance of materials and structures with a high level of confidence. As new materials and simulation models are developed, it becomes even more critical to test for engineering integrity. This book contains the proceedings of the first International Conference on Computational Methods and Testing for Engineering Integrity, held in Kuala Lumpur in March 1996. ... Read more

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