Continuum Modeling in the Physical Sciences
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Author(s): E. van Groesen and J. Molenaar
Publisher: SIAM
ISBN: 9780898716252
Format: softback
228pp
Price: $65.00
Review Date: 19 July 2007
Review: Mathematical modelling, the ability to apply mathematical concepts and techniques to real-life systems, has expanded in the last few decades. This textbook covers the applications of modelling techniques, with a focus on applications in natural sciences, the relevant ideas and techniques being illustrated through examples and exercises. The chapters are each devoted to a central issue: dimensional analysis and scaling; the basic elements of modelling; the basics of differential equations; and stability and robustness. The last chapter has elaborate case studies in polymer dynamics, fibre spinning, water waves and waveguide optics.