Entropy theory and its application in environmental and water engineering /

• Main Author: Singh, V. P. (Vijay P.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Wiley-Blackwell, [2013]
• Subjects: Hydraulic engineering > Mathematics.; Water > Thermal properties > Mathematical models.; Hydraulics > Mathematics.; Entropy.; Maximum entropy method.; Electronic books.

Entropy Theory and its Application in Environmental and Water Engineering introduces entropy theory for practical applications. The range of applications of entropy is constantly expanding and new areas finding a use for the theory are continually emerging. The applications of concepts and technique...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Entropy theory
• Principle of maximum entropy
• Derivation of Pome-based distributions
• Multivariate probability distributions
• Principle of minimum cross-entropy
• Derivation of Pome-based distributions
• Parameter estimation
• Spatial entropy
• Inverse spatial entropy
• Entropy spectral analyses
• Minimum cross entropy spectral analysis
• Evaluation and design of sampling and measurement networks
• Selection of variables and models
• Neural networks
• System complexity.