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Computational Fluid Mechanics
Peng Du, Abdellatif Ouahsine, Haibao Hu
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The rapid increase in urban population, land prices and land
preservation, urban regeneration, as well as globalization and
climate change have been forcing cities to build upward. High-rises
can be part of a more sustainable solution if the construction and
engineering challenges are addressed before construction starts.
Smart technologies are being integrated in the digital environment
to allow for better energy efficiency, safety and security, and to
maximize the health and well-being of the occupants. Delivered by a
team of world leading experts, this comprehensive edited book
covers the state-of-the-art of advanced research, innovations, and
future perspectives towards sustainable high-rise buildings. The
book is structured in three parts from architecture to engineering
and city planning including sustainable environmental systems,
skybridges, curtain walling resiliency, tall timber buildings,
sustainable structural engineering, core design and space
efficiency. It also includes seismic design, mass-damping-based
approaches, innovative bio-polymeric agro-based materials,
high-rises versus sprawl, transit-oriented development, mobility
and urban space networks, resilience thinking, and interdependence
of tall buildings and the city. Architects, engineers, researchers,
energy and facility managers, urban designers, project planners and
developers, and smart building solutions experts as well as faculty
members, postdocs, advanced students who are working in the fields
of the built environment, building construction, system design,
civil engineering, architecture, urban planning, smart cities,
sustainability and resiliency and environmental engineering, and
who are exploring sustainable building practices, will find this
new advanced reference most useful and inspiring.
Quaternions are members of a noncommutative division algebra first
invented by William Rowan Hamilton. They form an interesting
algebra where each object contains 4 scalar variables, instead of
Euler angles, which is useful to overcome the gimbal lock
phenomenon when treating the rotation of objects. This book is
about the mathematical basics and applications of quaternions. The
first four chapters mainly concerns the mathematical theories,
while the latter three chapters are related with three application
aspects. It is expected to provide useful clues for researchers and
engineers in the related area. In detail, this book is organized as
follows: In Chapter 1, mathematical basics including the quaternion
algebra and operations with quaternions, as well as the
relationships of quaternions with other mathematical parameters and
representations are demonstrated. In Chapter 2, how quaternions are
formulated in Clifford Algebra, how it is used in explaining
rotation group in symplectic vector space and parallel
transformation in holonomic dynamics are presented. In Chapter 3,
the wave equation for a spin 3/2 particle, described by
16-component vector-bispinor, is investigated in spherical
coordinates. In Chapter 4, hyperbolic Lobachevsky and spherical
Riemann models, parameterized coordinates with spherical and
cylindric symmetry are studied. In Chapter 5, ship hydrodynamics
with allowance of trim and sinkage is investigated and validated
with experiments. In Chapter 6, the ballast flying phenomenon based
on Discrete Discontinuous Analysis is presented. In Chapter 7, a
numerical study is proposed to analyze the effect of the caisson
sliding subjected to a hydrodynamic loading in the stability of the
rear side of the rubble mound breakwater.
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