Principles of Mathematical Modeling
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Author(s): C. L. Dym
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0122265513
Format: hardback
303pp
Price: £39.99, $77.95, €59.95
Review Date: 09 August 2005
Review: This book focuses on mathematical modelling techniques that will be of use to engineers and scientists and those modelling continuous systems. The book is divided into two parts: foundations and applications. The first part describes the basic mathematical ideas: dimensional analysis; scaling; and elementary approximations of curves and functions. The second part describes: exponential growth and decay; traffic flow models; modelling free vibration; applying vibration models; and what is the best optimisation to use to obtain the best results, maximum gain and optimal outcome. This new edition gives a more formal statement of a principled approach to mathematical modelling, along with some new 360 problems.