Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Engineering Models

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hauser, John R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Computational intelligence.; Environmental sciences.; Computational Intelligence.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Computational Science and Engineering.

The purpose of this book is to develop and illustrate various numerical computer based methods that can be used for engineering models and equations. The intended audience is the practicing engineer who needs to model real world engineering models or the upper level engineering undergraduate or firs...

Table of Contents:

• to Nonlinear Engineering Problems and Models
• Numerical Fundamentals and Computer Programming
• Roots of Nonlinear Equations
• Solving Sets of Equations: Linear and Nonlinear
• Numerical Derivatives and Numerical Integration
• Interpolation
• Curve Fitting and Data Plotting
• Statistical Methods and Basic Statistical Functions
• Data Models and Parameter Estimation
• Differential Equations: Initial Value Problems
• Differential Equations: Boundary Value Problems
• Partial Differential Equations: Finite Difference Approaches
• Partial Differential Equations: The Finite Element Method.