by Susanne C. Brenner, L. Ridgway Scott (1994)
This book develops the basic mathematical theory of the finite element method, the most widely used technique for engineering design and analysis. It formalizes basic tools that are commonly used by researchers in the field but not previously published. The book will be useful to mathematicians as well as engineers and physical scientists. It can be used for a course that provides an introduction to basic functional analysis, approximation theory, and numerical analysis, while building upon and applying basic techniques of real variable theory. The initial chapter provides an introduction to the entire subject, developed in the one-dimensional case. Four subsequent chapters develop the basic theory in the multidimensional case, and a fifth chapter presents basic applications of this theory. Subsequent chapters provide an introduction to multigrid methods and other iterative solution techniques, mixed methods with applications to elasticity and fluid flow models, variational "crimes" including nonconforming and isoparametric methods and numerical integration, error estimates in the maximum norm with applications to nonlinear problems, and Banach-space operator-interpolation techniques. Different course paths can be chosen, allowing the book to be used for courses designed for students with different interests. For example, courses can emphasize physical applications, or algorithmic efficiency and code development issues, or the more difficult convergence theorems of the subject.
Mark A. Norell, Lowell Dingus, Eugene Gaffney
"This book addresses the questions of what the fossil record tells us about the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs, what their relationship to the rest of the organic world was, and what we can learn from them about our own place in the history of life on our planet. This edition has been updated throughout, and the authors have provided a new final chapter."--BOOK JACKET.
P.K. Jain, O.P. Ahuja, Khalil Ahmad
The book is intended to serve as a textbook for an introductory course in functional analysis for the senior undergraduate and graduate students. It can also be useful for the senior students of applied mathematics, statistics, operations research, engineering and theoretical physics. The text starts with a chapter on Preliminaries discussing basic concepts and results which would be taken for granted later in the book. This is followed by chapters on Normed and Banach Spaces, Bounded Linear Operators, Bounded Linear Functionals, The Concept and Specific Geometry of Hilbert Spaces, Functionals and Operators on Hilbert Spaces and Introduction to Spectral Theory. An appendix have been given on Schauder Bases. The salient features of the book are presentation of the subject in a natural way, description of the concepts with justification, clear and precise exposition avoiding pendantry, various examples and counter examples, and graded problems throughout each chapter. Notes and remarks within the text enhances the utility of the book for the students.
Jean-Marie Souriau
This book is addressed to graduate students and researchers in mathematics and physics who are interested in mathematical and theoretical physics, symplectic geometry, mechanics, and (geometric) quantization. The aim of the book is to treat all three basic theories of physics, namely, classical mechanics, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics from the same perspective, that of symplectic geometry, thus showing the unifying power of the symplectic geometric approach. Reading this book will give the reader a deep understanding of the interrelationships between the three basic theories of physics. The first tow chapters provide the necessary mathematical background in differential geometry, Lie groups, and symplectic geometry. In Chapter 3 a coherent symplectic description of Galilean and relativistic mechanics is given, culminating in the classification of elementary particles (relativistic and non-relativistic, with or without spin, with or without mass). In Chapter 4 statistical mechanics is put into symplectic form, finishing with a symplectic description of the kinetic theory of gases and the computation of specific heats. Finally, in Chapter 5 the author presents his theory of geometric quantization. Highlights of this chapter are the derivations of various wave equations and the construction of the Fock space.
J.G. Heywood ... [et al.] (ed
V.A. Solonnikov, A. Tani: Evolution free boundary problem for equations of motion of viscous compressible barotropic liquid.- W. Borchers, T. Miyakawa:On some coercive estimates for the Stokes problem in unbounded domains.- R. Farwig, H. Sohr: An approach to resolvent estimates for the Stokes equations in L(q)-spaces.- R. Rannacher: On Chorin's projection method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.- E. S}li, A. Ware: Analysis of the spectral Lagrange-Galerkin method for the Navier-Stokes equations.- G. Grubb: Initial value problems for the Navier-Stokes equations with Neumann conditions.- B.J. Schmitt, W. v.Wahl: Decomposition of solenoidal fields into poloidal fields, toroidal fields and the mean flow. Applications to the Boussinesq-equations.- O. Walsh: Eddy solutions of the Navier-Stokesequations.- W. Xie: On a three-norm inequality for the Stokes operator in nonsmooth domains.