Author : Wolfgang S. Mittelbach
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 3754330047
In this compelling memoir, the author shares some of the extremely critical and decisive experiences that shaped his life. At the age of 27, Wolfgang S. Mittelbach, was diagnosed with incurable cancer. However, he never gave up, mastered life-threatening situations and went onto become a successful commercial pilot in command.
Author : Annette Herfkens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1682450422
The author discusses her eight day trek through the Vietnamese jungle after surviving a plane crash and how the lessons learned during that experience prepared her to be a mother to her autistic son.
Author : Christiane Brosius
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2011-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 364218393X
Today, hardly anything moves as fast across the globe as images and media. This fact opens new avenues to explore social and cultural change, but also poses new theoretical challenges of how to grasp and better understand these changes and flows. Moreover, such movements across geophysical and cultural borders have a historical depth that enables us to explore globalisation and localisation in new ways. Transculturality is still a relatively new field of research in the Humanities through which we sharpen our competence and ‘literacy’ to come to terms with the complexity of globalised cultures. This volume ventures into new domains of research on the transculturality of images and addresses the need to develop new or modify established often ethno- and Eurocentric interpretations of what happens when images travel. It does so by bringing together cutting-edge research from fields such as art history, cultural anthropology, colonial history, Islamic studies, religious studies and literary criticism.
Author : David Szalay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982122757
*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice* A “masterful” (The Washington Post), “cathartic” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world—from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of All That Man Is. In this “compelling” (The Christian Science Monitor), “crisp and clever” (Vanity Fair) novel, Szalay’s diverse protagonists circumnavigate the planet in twelve flights, from London to Madrid, from Dakar to Sao Paulo, to Toronto, to Delhi, to Doha, en route to see lovers or estranged siblings, aging parents, baby grandchildren, or nobody at all. Along the way, they experience the full range of human emotions from loneliness to love and, knowingly or otherwise, change each other in one brief, electrifying interaction after the next. Written with magic and economy, “Szalay explores the miraculous ability of our shared humanity to lift us from loneliness” (Esquire) and delivers a dazzling portrait of the interconnectedness of the modern world.
Author : Sergey Nazarenko
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2011-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642159419
Wave Turbulence refers to the statistical theory of weakly nonlinear dispersive waves. There is a wide and growing spectrum of physical applications, ranging from sea waves, to plasma waves, to superfluid turbulence, to nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein condensates. Beyond the fundamentals the book thus also covers new developments such as the interaction of random waves with coherent structures (vortices, solitons, wave breaks), inverse cascades leading to condensation and the transitions between weak and strong turbulence, turbulence intermittency as well as finite system size effects, such as “frozen” turbulence, discrete wave resonances and avalanche-type energy cascades. This book is an outgrow of several lectures courses held by the author and, as a result, written and structured rather as a graduate text than a monograph, with many exercises and solutions offered along the way. The present compact description primarily addresses students and non-specialist researchers wishing to enter and work in this field.
Author : Christophe Bailly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2015-03-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319161601
This book covers the major problems of turbulence and turbulent processes, including physical phenomena, their modeling and their simulation. After a general introduction in Chapter 1 illustrating many aspects dealing with turbulent flows, averaged equations and kinetic energy budgets are provided in Chapter 2. The concept of turbulent viscosity as a closure of the Reynolds stress is also introduced. Wall-bounded flows are presented in Chapter 3 and aspects specific to boundary layers and channel or pipe flows are also pointed out. Free shear flows, namely free jets and wakes, are considered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with vortex dynamics. Homogeneous turbulence, isotropy and dynamics of isotropic turbulence are presented in Chapters 6 and 7. Turbulence is then described both in the physical space and in the wave number space. Time dependent numerical simulations are presented in Chapter 8, where an introduction to large eddy simulation is offered. The last three chapters of the book summarize remarkable digital techniques current and experimental. Many results are presented in a practical way, based on both experiments and numerical simulations. The book is written for a advanced engineering students as well as postgraduate engineers and researchers. For students, it contains the essential results as well as details and demonstrations whose oral transmission is often tedious. At a more advanced level, the text provides numerous references which allow readers to find quickly further study regarding their work and to acquire a deeper knowledge on topics of interest.
Author : Robert Brenner
Publisher : Verso
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781859847305
A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble.
Author : Pierre Sagaut
Publisher : Springer
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319731629
This book provides state-of-the-art results and theories in homogeneous turbulence, including anisotropy and compressibility effects with extension to quantum turbulence, magneto-hydodynamic turbulence and turbulence in non-newtonian fluids. Each chapter is devoted to a given type of interaction (strain, rotation, shear, etc.), and presents and compares experimental data, numerical results, analysis of the Reynolds stress budget equations and advanced multipoint spectral theories. The role of both linear and non-linear mechanisms is emphasized. The link between the statistical properties and the dynamics of coherent structures is also addressed. Despite its restriction to homogeneous turbulence, the book is of interest to all people working in turbulence, since the basic physical mechanisms which are present in all turbulent flows are explained. The reader will find a unified presentation of the results and a clear presentation of existing controversies. Special attention is given to bridge the results obtained in different research communities. Mathematical tools and advanced physical models are detailed in dedicated chapters.
Author : Whitney G.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 9781370332298
A short continuation of Jake & Gillian's love story from the USA Today Bestselling novel, Turbulence.
Author : Stephen B. Pope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521598866
This is a graduate text on turbulent flows, an important topic in fluid dynamics. It is up-to-date, comprehensive, designed for teaching, and is based on a course taught by the author at Cornell University for a number of years. The book consists of two parts followed by a number of appendices. Part I provides a general introduction to turbulent flows, how they behave, how they can be described quantitatively, and the fundamental physical processes involved. Part II is concerned with different approaches for modelling or simulating turbulent flows. The necessary mathematical techniques are presented in the appendices. This book is primarily intended as a graduate level text in turbulent flows for engineering students, but it may also be valuable to students in applied mathematics, physics, oceanography and atmospheric sciences, as well as researchers and practising engineers.
