This book provides comprehensive coverage of both the fluid and material aspects of cavitation erosion. It details facilities and measurement techniques commonly used in cavitation erosion studies and presents various stages of cavitation damage.
This book covers the breadth of solar energy technologies for the conversion of solar energy to provide heat, either as the directly-used output or as an intermediary to other uses such as power generation or cooling.
This review of recent developments in our understanding of the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology covers a research area with enormous untapped potential.
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well-being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is... Læs mere
This volume presents the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Vibration Problems, 2011, Prague, Czech Republic.
This book is intended for students and soil scientists who want to know about the state of the art in soil sciences in Chile. Finally, the book shows how man has induced severe soil... Læs mere
This book presents advanced statistical techniques used to analyze demographic data, which it illustrates through modelling maternal and child health in the African context using data from Demographic and Health Surveys in several countries in the continent.
This book looks at the centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education and explores the modeling of mental processes, knowledge, cognitive development, and conceptual learning.