Table of Contents: “.... Contributions to the Mathematical Technology Transfer with Finite Volume Methods -- 5.An Easy Control of the Articial Numerical Viscosity to Get Discrete Entropy Inequalities when Approximating Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws....”

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Table of Contents: “... -- First Law and the Equation of State of Ideal Gases -- Real gases -- Heat as Random motion -- Transport processes: Diffusion and Heat Conduction -- The State Function entropy, S -- Converting Heat into Work. The Second Law -- Exercise -- Solutions...”

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Table of Contents: “...1 Playing by ear -- 2 The stave and the treble clef -- 3 Easy rhythms and melodies -- 4 Fluid chords -- 5 Scales in crescendo -- 6 Indistinguishable harmonies -- A Mathematical notes -- B Statistical entropy -- C The Boltzmann equation -- D Brownian...”

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Table of Contents: “...1 Classical problems -- 2 From Newton to Einstein: the discovery of laws of  motion and gravity -- 3 From comets to chaos --  4 Fractals, entropy and arrow of time -- 5 Solar System -- 6 Interacting galaxies -- 7 Three body problem in perspective -- 8...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 15 Nonlinear vortex instabilities in free convective boundary layers in porous media -- 16 Thermal non-equilibrium free convection in a cavity filled with a non-Darcy porous medium -- 17 Entropy generation for free and forced convection in a por ous cavity...”

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Table of Contents: “...1. Kinematics -- 2. Balance Laws -- 3. Basic Principles of Constitutive Theories -- 4. Representation of Constitutive Functions -- 5. Entropy Principle -- 6. Isotropic Elastic Solids -- 7. Thermodynamics with Lagrange Multipliers -- 8. Rational Extended...”

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Table of Contents: “...-Range Order: Implications of the “Rigid Unit Mode” Picture -- Vibrational Entropy and Local Structures of Solids -- Diffuse Scattering by Domain Structures -- Recent “Local” Structural Studies: Metallic Alloys, Superconductors and Proteins -- Studies of Local...”

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Table of Contents: “... and solution methods -- 9.2 Nonclassical behavior of macroscopic parameters -- 9.3 Behavior of the distribution function and macroscopic parameters -- 9.4 Possible entropy decrease -- 9.5 Some generalizations -- References -- 10 One-Dimensional Kinetic Problems...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Lecture 5. N-Atom Ideal Gas -- Lecture 6. Pressure of an Ideal Gas -- Aside B. How Do Thermometers Work—The Polythermal Ensemble -- Lecture 7. Formal Manipulations of the Partition Function -- Aside C. Gibbs’s Derivation of -- Lecture 8. Entropy -- Lecture 9...”

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Table of Contents: “... Energy and Environment -- 9 From Being to Becoming: Entropy, Life, and Chaos Theory -- 10 Heat Death, Hangups, and the Question of Design -- Three Waves, Fields, And Einstein’s Universe -- 11 The Motion Of Waves -- 12 Wave Interactions -- 13 Sound and Music...”

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Table of Contents: “... Layer -- Entropy- and Boundary Layer Instability of Hypersonic Cone Flows - Effects of Mean How Variations - -- Mathematical Nature of Parabolized Stability Equations -- High-Speed Boundary-Layer Stability and Transition -- “Vortex Dynamics” of a Vortex Ring...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Spurious entropy generation as a mesh quality indicator -- Dynamic mesh adaption for tetrahedral grids -- Extensive analysis and cross-comparisons of past and present numerical formulations for flow problems on unstructured meshes -- A time-accurate multigrid...”

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Table of Contents: “...1. Relaxational Dynamics, Avalanches, and Disorder in Real Sandpiles -- 2. Computer Simulations of Granular Materials -- 3.Pattern Formation and Complexity in Granular Flows -- 4.The Role of Entropy in the Specification of a Powder -- 5.Discrete...”

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Table of Contents: “... equation -- 5.7 Heat exchangers -- Summary -- Problems -- 6 The second law of thermodynamics -- 6.1 Aims -- 6.2 Heat engines -- 6.3 The second law of thermodynamics -- 6.4 The absolute temperature scale -- 6.5 Temperature, efficiency and entropy -- 6.6...”

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Table of Contents: “... Construction -- Entropy in Civil Engineering Optimization -- An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design Part I: Basic Algorithms -- An Assessment of Current Non-Linear Programming Algorithms for Structural Design Part II: Some...”

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Table of Contents: “... on Hysteretic Structures -- Analysis of Stochastic Systems via Maximum Entropy Principle -- System Identification of Nonlinear Dynamic Structures Based on Stochastic Time Series Model Fitting -- Nonlinear Stochastic Mechanics in Structural Safety and Reliability...”

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Table of Contents: “... Probability Distribution of Wind Waves Using Maximum Entropy Principle -- Shallow Water Wave Kinematics -- * Mathematical Modelling of Short Waves in Surf Zone -- * Free and Forced Cross-Shore Long Waves -- * Computation of Nonlinear Wave Kinematics During...”

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