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Interaction studies between chemical and biological species, in a gaseous or liquid state, and mineral or biological materials acting as sensitive elements, take a large place in this book.

This book focuses on the methods of storage commonly used in hybrid systems. After an introductory chapter reviewing the basics of electrochemistry, Chapter 2 is given over to the storage of electricity in the form of hydrogen. Once hydrogen has been made, we have to be able to convert it back into electricity on demand.

In fluid mechanics, non-intrusive measurements are fundamental in order to improve knowledge of the behavior and main physical phenomena of flows in order to further validate codes. The principles and characteristics of the different techniques available in laser metrology are described in detail in this book.

This book explains how to include the coupling between thin wires and electromagnetic waves and how to include passive and active components. A matrix formulation of TLM method is given allowing a rigorous simulation of propagation in a dispersive environment.

Laser velocimetry provides fundamental information to validate codes in fluid mechanics and helps for a better understanding of the fluid structure. The principles and characteristics of the different available techniques, all based on the scattering of light by tiny particles embedded into the flow, are described in details.

This book presents a history of TLM method leads to the different 2D and 3D nodes currently used, determines the scattering matrices, dispersion, propagation in open space, and absorbing boundary conditions. It covers how to include the coupling between thin wires and electromagnetic waves and how to include passive and active components.

The aim of this book is to deal with biometrics in terms of signal and image processing methods and algorithms. This will help engineers and students working in digital signal and image processing deal with the implementation of such specific algorithms.

This book presents Integrated Optimal Design: signal processing of mission profiles and system environment variables, optimization oriented analytical models, methods, and tools (design frameworks), as well as a technico-economic optimization especially dedicated to electrical grids.

It addition to its role in the manufacturing and maintenance of mechanical systems. mechanical engineering has recently moved into cutting-edge subjects such as nanomechanics and nanotechnology, mechatronics and robotics, computational mechanics, biomechanics, alternative energies, as well as aspects related to sustainable mechanical engineering.

Through research, physical oceanography aims to solve the numerous problems stated by thermal, optical and dynamical properties of the oceans.

This book focuses on green networking, which is an important topic for the scientific community composed of engineers, academics, researchers and industrialists working in the networking field.

Multimodal transport network customers need to be directed during their travels. A travel support tool can be offered by a Multimodal Information System (MIS), which allows them to input their needs and provides them with the appropriate responses to improve their travel conditions.

This book presents a description of the collective behavior of dislocation ensembles based on a continuous description, using the powerful tools of partial differential equations instead of conventional theories of the plasticity.

The current diversity of transport services, as well as the complexity resulting from the deployment of specific transport protocols or mechanisms over the different services provided by heterogeneous networks, demand a novel design of the transport layer.

This book offers an in-depth presentation of the finite element method, aimed at engineers, students and researchers in applied sciences. The description of the method is presented in such a way as to be usable in any domain of application. The level of mathematical expertise required is limited to differential and matrix calculus.

Today, the availability of bright and highly coherent electron sources and sensitive detectors has radically changed the type and quality of the information which can be obtained by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). TEMs are now present in large numbers not only in academia, but also in industrial research centers and fabs.

This volume provides scientists and engineers with practical tools for the calculation of correction for industrial systems of different physical natures, covering their real-time implementation and validation by simulation. Applications to cryogenic systems, thermal and gas systems, and vehicles are examined in detail.

Representing geographical space beyond our mere perception is key to making relevant decisions, be it with respect to sustainable development or to the planning of everyday activities. This book presents late software design projects led in teams with sometimes different background to address these challenges.

At present the literature gives students and researchers of the very general books on the formal technics. The purpose of this book is to present in a single book, a return of experience on the used of the formal technics (such proof and model-checking) on industrial examples for the transportation domain.

Although formal analysis programming techniques may be quite old, the introduction of formal methods only dates from the 1980s. These techniques enable us to analyze the behavior of a software application, described in a programming language.

Providing a detailed overview of the fundamentals and latest developments in the field of energy autonomous microsystems, this book delivers an in-depth study of the applications in the fields of health and usage monitoring in aeronautics, medical implants, and home automation, drawing out the main specifications on such systems.

Increasing urbanization throughout the world, the depletion of fossil fuels and concerns about global warming have transformed the city into a physical problem of prime importance.

This book deals with electromagnetic theory and its applications at the level of a senior-level undergraduate course for science and engineering. The basic concepts and mathematical analysis are clearly developed and the important applications are analyzed. .

Addressing challenges and developments in this growing field, this title discusses basic questions such as: Why and when is multiple sensor fusion necessary? How can the available measurements be characterized in such a case? What is the purpose and the specificity of information fusion processing in multiple sensor systems?

Network coding, a relatively new area of research, has evolved from the theoretical level to become a tool used to optimize the performance of communication networks wired, cellular, ad hoc, etc. The idea consists of mixing packets of data together when routing them from source to destination.

This book aims to deliver significant scientific progress on the problem of the erosion of geomaterials, focusing on the mechanical/physical aspect. The chapters oscillate between a phenomenological outlook that is well grounded in experiments, and an approach that can offer a modeling framework.

Today, cyber security, cyber defense, information warfare and cyber warfare issues are among the most relevant topics both at the national and international level. All the major states of the world are facing cyber threats and trying to understand how cyberspace could be used to increase power.

Virtual metal forming is nowadays inescapable when designing advanced mechanical components. This book reviews the most effective methods for modeling, simulating, and optimizing metal forming processes, presenting the main features of new, innovative methods currently being developed, which will no doubt be the industrial tools of tomorrow.

This collective work identifies the latest developments in the field of the automatic processing and analysis of digital color images. For researchers and students, it represents a critical state of the art on the scientific issues raised by the various steps constituting the chain of color image processing.

This book presents statistical models that have recently been developed within several research communities to access information contained in text collections.