Variational Methods for Engineers With Matlab - Couverture rigide

Souza De Cursi, Eduardo

 
9781848219144: Variational Methods for Engineers With Matlab

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Eduardo Souza de Cursi, Professor (INSA-Rouen, France); Dean of International Affairs (INSA-Rouen, France); Director LOFIMS (INSA-Rouen, France).

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