Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; Thermal Power Plant; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Acronyms/Abbreviations; 1 Steam Power Plant Cycles; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Laws of Thermodynamics; 1.2.1 First law of thermodynamics; 1.2.2 Second law of thermodynamics; 1.2.2.1 Concept of entropy; 1.3 Carnot Cycle; 1.4 Stirling Cycle; 1.5 Ericsson Cycle; 1.6 Rankine Cycle; 1.6.1 Real rankine cycle; 1.6.2 Reheat rankine cycle; 1.6.3 Regenerative rankine cycle; 1.7 Kalina Cycle; 1.8 Binary Vapor Cycle; 1.9 Problems; Bibliography; 2 Steam Generators; 2.1 Introduction…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.6.2 Divided Differences:Notation -- 6.7 Properties Satisfied by D' -- 6.7.1 Linearity Property -- 6.7.2 Symmetrical Property -- 6.7.3 Vanishing of (n + 1) Divided Differences -- 6.7.4 Special Case: Equally spaced Divided Differences -- 6.8 Divided Difference Interpolation Formula -- 6.8.1 Newton's Divided Difference Formula -- 6.8.2 Sheppard's3 Zig-Zag Rule -- 6.8.3 Lagrange's4 Formula for Unequal Intervals -- 6.9 Inverse Interpolation Using Lagrange's Interpolation Formula -- 6.10 Central Difference Formulas -- 6.10.1 Gauss's5 Interpolation Formulae -- 6.10.2 Stirling's6 Formula -- 6.10.3 Bessel7 Formula -- Exercise 6.3 -- Chapter 7: Curve Fitting -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 Curve Fitting: Method of Least Squares -- 7.1.2 Some Standard Approximating Curves -- 7.2 Curve Fitting by the Method of Least Squares -- 7.2.1 Least Squares Straight Line Fit or Linear Regression -- 7.2.2 Least Squares Parabolic (Quadratic) Curve -- 7.2.3 Nonlinear Curves -- 7.3.2 Transcendental Curves -- 7.3 Curvilinear (or Nonlinear) Regression -- 7.3.1 Polynomial Regression -- 7.3.2 Transcendental Curves -- 7.4 Curve fitting by a Sum of Exponentials -- 7.5.1 Linear Weighted Least Squares Approximation -- 7.5.2 Nonlinear Weighted Least Squares Approximation -- 7.5 Weighted Least Squares Approximation -- 7.5.1 Linear Weighted Least Squares Approximation -- 7.5.2 Nonlinear Weighted Least Squares Approximation -- Exercise 7.1 -- Chapter 8: Numerical Differentiation and Integration -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Numerical Differentiation -- 8.1.2 Numerical Differentiation by Newton's Forward Interpolation Formula -- 8.1.3 Numerical Differentiation by Newton's Backward Interpolation Formula -- 8.1.4 Numerical Differentiation by Stirling's Formula -- 8.2 Errors in Numerical Differentiation -- 8.2.1 Truncation Error -- 8.2.2 Rounding Error…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…<P><b>1 Introductory Concepts and Calculus Review 1</b></p> <p>1.1 Basic Tools of Calculus 1</p> <p>1.2 Error, Approximate Equality, and Asymptotic Order Notation 10</p> <p>1.3 A Primer on Computer Arithmetic 13</p> <p>1.4 A Word on Computer Languages and Software 17</p> <p>1.5 A Brief History of Scientific Computing 18</p> <p><b>2 A Survey of Simple Methods and Tools 19</b></p> <p>2.1 Horner's Rule and Nested Multiplication 19</p> <p>2.2 Difference Approximations to the Derivative 22</p> <p>2.3 Application: Euler's Method for Initial Value Problems 30</p> <p>2.4 Linear Interpolation 34</p> <p>2.5 Application-The Trapezoid Rule 38</p> <p>2.6 Solution of Tridiagonal Linear Systems 46</p> <p>2.7 Application: Simple Two-Point Boundary Value Problems 50</p> <p><b>3 Root-Finding 55</b></p> <p>3.1 The Bisection Method 55</p> <p>3.2 Newton's Method: Derivation and Examples 59</p> <p>3.3 How to Stop Newton's Method 63</p> <p>3.4 Application: Division Using Newton's Method 66</p> <p>3.5 The Newton Error Formula 69</p> <p>3.6 Newton's Method: Theory and Convergence 72</p> <p>3.7 Application: Computation of the Square Root 76</p> <p>3.8 The Secant Method: Derivation and Examples 79</p> <p>3.9 Fixed Point Iteration 83</p> <p>3.10 Roots of Polynomials (Part 1) 85</p> <p>3.11 Special Topics in Root-finding Methods 88</p> <p>3.12 Very High-order Methods and the Efficiency Index 98</p> <p><b>4 Interpolation and Approximation 101</b></p> <p>4.1 Lagrange Interpolation 101</p> <p>4.2 Newton Interpolation and Divided Differences 104</p> <p>4.3 Interpolation Error 114</p> <p>4.4 Application: Muller's Method and Inverse Quadratic Interpolation 119</p> <p>4.5 Application: More Approximations to the Derivative 121</p> <p>4.6 Hermite Interpolation 122</p> <p>4.7 Piecewise Polynomial Interpolation 125</p> <p>4.8 An Introduction to Splines 129</p> <p>4.9 Tension Splines 135</p> <p>4.10 Least Squares Concepts in Approximation 137</p> <p>4.11 Advanced Topics in Interpolation Error 142</p> <p><b>5 Numerical Integration 149</b></p> <p>5.1 A Review of the Definite Integral 149</p> <p>5.2 Improving the Trapezoid Rule 151</p> <p>5.3 Simpson's Rule and Degree of Precision 154</p> <p>5.4 The Midpoint Rule 162</p> <p>5.5 Application: Stirling's Formula 166</p> <p>5.6 Gaussian Quadrature 167</p> <p>5.7 Extrapolation Methods 173</p> <p>5.8 Special Topics in Numerical Integration 177</p> <p><b>6 Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations 185</b></p> <p>6.1 The Initial Value Problem-Background 185</p> <p>6.2 Euler's Method 187</p> <p>6.3 Analysis of Euler's Method 189</p> <p>6.4 Variants of Euler's Method 190</p> <p>6.5 Single Step Methods-Runge-Kutta 197</p> <p>6.6 Multistep Methods 200</p> <p>6.7 Stability Issues 204</p> <p>6.8 Application to Systems of Equations 206</p> <p>6.9 Adaptive Solvers 210</p> <p>6.10 Boundary Value Problems 212</p> <p><b>7 Numerical Methods for the Solution of Systems of Equations 217</b></p> <p>7.1 Linear Algebra Review 217</p> <p>7.2 Linear Systems and Gaussian Elimination 218</p> <p>7.3 Operation Counts 223</p> <p>7.4 The <i>LU </i>Factorization 224</p> <p>7.5 Perturbation, Conditioning and Stability 229</p> <p>7.6 SPD Matrices and the Cholesky Decomposition 235</p> <p>7.7 Application: Numerical Solution of Linear Least Squares Problems 236</p> <p>7.8 Sparse and Structured Matrices 240</p> <p>7.9 Iterative Methods for Linear Systems -- A Brief Survey 241</p> <p>7.10 Nonlinear Systems: Newton's Method and Related Ideas 242</p> <p>7.11 Application: Numerical Solution of Nonlinear BVP's 244</p> <p><b>8 Approximate Solution of the Algebraic Eigenvalue Problem 247</b></p> <p>8.1 Eigenvalue Review 247</p> <p>8.2 Reduction to Hessenberg Form 249</p> <p>8.3 Power Methods 250</p> <p>8.4 Bisection and Inertia to Compute Eigenvalues of Symmetric Matrices 253</p> <p>8.5 An Overview of the <i>QR </i>Iteration 257</p> <p>8.6 Application: Roots of Polynomials, II 260</p> <p>8.7 Application: Computation of Gaussian Quadrature Rules 261</p> <p><b>9 A Survey of Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 265</b></p> <p>9.1 Difference Methods for the Diffusion Equation 265</p> <p>9.2 Finite Element Methods for the Diffusion Equation 270</p> <p>9.3 Difference Methods for Poisson Equations 271</p> <p><b>10 An Introduction to Spectral Methods 277</b></p> <p>10.1 Spectral Methods for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems 277</p> <p>10.2 Spectral Methods in Two Dimensions 279</p> <p>10.3 Spectral Methods for Time-Dependent Problems 282</p> <p>10.4 Clenshaw-Curtis Quadrature 283</p>…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover -- Solar Chimney Power Plant Generating Technology -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Energy background -- 1.1.1 The Energy Issue and the Status Quo -- 1.1.2 China's Energy Policy and Prospect -- 1.1.3 Solar Power Generating Technologies and the Status Quo -- 1.1.3.1 The solar central power tower system [47,78-85] -- 1.1.3.2 The parabolic trough solar thermal system [54,56,57,87-95] -- 1.1.3.3 The Dish-Stirling solar power plant system [64,97-103] -- 1.1.3.4 The solar photovoltaic power generation system [70,72,73,75-77,105] -- 1.2 Solar chimney power plant system -- 1.2.1 The Appearance of a Solar Chimney Power Plant System -- 1.2.2 Advantages of SCPPS -- 1.2.2.1 Large scale renewable energy collection -- 1.2.2.2 Energy storage with low cost -- 1.2.2.3 Air as working fluid -- 1.2.2.4 Technical feasibility -- 1.2.2.5 Environmental remediation -- 1.2.2.6 Competitive investment and operation costs -- 1.2.3 Weaknesses of SCPPS -- 1.3 Research progress -- 1.3.1 Experiments and Prototypes -- 1.3.2 Theory Research -- 1.3.2.1 The thermodynamic theory for the circulation system -- 1.3.2.2 HAG effect of the system -- 1.3.2.3 Heat and mass transfer theory in the system -- 1.3.2.4 The operation principle of the turbine and the design optimization techniques -- 1.3.3 Economic and Ecological Theory and Feasibility Studies -- 1.3.4 Potential Application of SCPPS -- 1.4 Research contents of this book -- References -- 2 Thermodynamic fundamentals -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Thermodynamic cycle -- 2.3 Thermal efficiency -- 2.4 Results and analysis -- 2.4.1 Computation Results for the Spanish Prototype -- 2.4.2 Computation Results for Commercial SCPPSs -- 2.5 Effect of various parameters -- 2.5.1 Influence of Turbine Efficiency -- 2.5.2 Influence of Chimney Height and Diameter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…REFLECTORES LINEALES FRESNEL -- 2.4.5. DISCO STIRLING -- 2.4.6. TORRE SOLAR -- 2.4.7. OTROS SISTEMAS - POZAS SOLARES -- 2.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gehry (p. 56); El museo Guggenheim de Bilbao (p. 58); Aspiraciones surrealistas en la pintura y la arquitectura de Clorindo Testa (p. 60); Los conceptos de la abstracción (p. 64); Los métodos generales de la abstracción (p. 66); Música y literatura abstractas (p. 70); El elementarismo neoplasticista (p. 72); Abstracción suprematista y tectónica constructivista (p. 74); Las neovanguardias (p. 76); Arte conceptual: abstracción y procesos (p. 78); Mecanismos racionalistas: la medida, el detalle técnico, el prototipo, la repetición modular y las megaestructuras (p. 82); Las formas del racionalismo: la nueva objetividad alemana y holandesa (p. 86); El uso de prototipos en la arquitectura de Le Corbusier y Mies (p. 88); Racionalidad mecánica máxima en la casa de Wittgenstein (p. 90); La repetición modular en la base de las arquitecturas high-tech (p. 92); Megaestructuras y Archigram (p. 92); Crisis y fortuna del racionalismo (p. 94); Evolución del concepto de realismo (p. 98); Realismo y existencialismo posbélicos (p. 98); Imágenes de la realidad: fotografía y cine (p. 102); La arquitectura como función social (p. 104); El espacio empírico: Alvar Aalto y Álvaro Siza Vieira (p. 104); Espacio existencial: Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Gaston Bachelard (108); El retorno del arte figurativo (p. 110); Las formas de la mímesis: Lina Bo Bardi y Latinoamérica (p. 112); Valoraciones críticas del realismo (p. 114); Cultura pop: complejidad y comunicación (p. 118); Teorías de la complejidad (p. 118); Formas de la cultura pop (p. 118); Formas de la contradicción: Robert Venturi (p. 120); Formas de la ambigüedad: Andy Warhol y el pop norteamericano (p. 122); Arquitectura como lenguaje y sistema comunicativo: Charles Jencks, la crítica literaria (p. 124); Posmodernismo, neohistoricismo antiurbano y consumismo metropolitano (p. 128); La crítica radical: las formas de la acción (p. 132); Dispersión de experiencias teóricas y formales (p. 132); La Escuela de Francfort (p. 132); Manfredo Tafuri (p. 134); El arte de acción (p. 136); La Internacional Situacionista (p. 138); La sociedad del espectáculo según Guy Debord (p. 140); Las formas de la acción (p. 142); Propuestas radicales de refundación y Apocalipsis (p. 142); La crítica tipológica: las formas de la permanencia (p. 148); El concepto de tipo (p. 148); Los inicios de la crítica tipológica en arquitectura (p. 150); El precedente de Louis Kahn: las formas intemporales (p. 150); La estructura de la ciudad (p. 150); Arquetipos (p. 152); Lingüística estructuralista y viaje iniciático (p. 154); Bodegones: arte y arquitectura como lenguas muertas (p. 158); Las diversas interpretaciones del concepto de tipo (p. 158); Fenomenologías minimalistas: estructuras habitables (p. 162); El minimalismo, principio operativo del siglo xx (p. 162); Mecanismos minimalistas (p. 162); Zen (p. 168); La Biblioteca de Francia en París (p. 174); El Museo Brasileño de Escultura en São Paulo (p. 176); La obra como estructura (p. 178); Las teorías de la Gestalt (p. 180); Los límites del minimalismo (p. 182); La cultura del fragmento: el collage y el montaje (p. 186); Antecedentes de lo fragmentario (p. 186); Blade Runner y la cultura del fragmento y la superposición (p. 188); Colin Rowe: Ciudad Collage y sistema figura-fondo (p. 190); Andamiaje y collage en la arquitectura de James Stirling, Hans Hollein y Arata Isozaki (p. 192); Influencia de los principios del montaje cinematográfico en la obra de Bernard Tschumi (p. 194); Rem Koolhaas y el "manhattanismo" (p. 194); Coleccionistas, bricoleurs y montadores (p. 198); Arquitecturas del caos (p. 204); Los pensamientos del caos (p. 204); Geometrías fractales: Benoît Mandelbrot (p. 204); La teoría de los pliegues: Gilles Deleuze (p. 206); Las formas del colapso: Peter Eisenman (p. 208); El Museo Judío en Berlín (p. 212); Fortuna de pliegues y fractales (p. 214); 12. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Recurrence and Generating Functions -- 2.1: Recursions -- 2.2: Generating Functions -- 2.3: Linear Constant Coefficient Recursions -- 2.4: Solving Homogeneous LCCRs Using Generating Functions -- 2.5: The Catalan Recursion -- 2.6: The Umbral Calculus -- 2.7: Exponential Generating Functions -- 2.8: Partitions of a Set: The Bell and Stirling Numbers -- 2.9: Rouché's Theorem and the Lagrange's Inversion Formula -- 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Most of the core team for the Stirling Congress, from left, Gordon Maxwell, Stephen Johnson, Bill Hanson, David Breeze and Lawrence Keppie -- Figure 43. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Binomial Theorem -- 1.10.6. Stirling's Formula -- 1.10.7. The Fundamental Counting Rule -- 1.10.8. …”

“…Contributors: Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool), Robert Burroughs (Leeds Beckett), Bambi Ceuppens (Africa Museum), Matthias De Groof (University of Antwerp), Catherine Gilbert (University of Newcastle), Chantal Gishoma (University of Bayreuth), Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling), Dónal Hassett (University of Cork), Sky Herington (University of Warwick), Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), Albert Kasanda (Charles University, Prague), Maëline Le Lay (CNRS/ THALIM, Sorbonne nouvelle), Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University of Cork) Ebook available in Open Access. …”

“…Contributors: Sarah Arens (University of Liverpool), Robert Burroughs (Leeds Beckett), Bambi Ceuppens (Africa Museum), Matthias De Groof (University of Antwerp), Catherine Gilbert (University of Newcastle), Chantal Gishoma (University of Bayreuth), Hannah Grayson (University of Stirling), Dónal Hassett (University of Cork), Sky Herington (University of Warwick), Nicki Hitchcott (University of St Andrews), Yvette Hutchison (University of Warwick), Albert Kasanda (Charles University, Prague), Maëline Le Lay (CNRS/ THALIM, Sorbonne nouvelle), Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London), Caroline Williamson Sinalo (University of Cork). …”

“…Other relatively recent technologies have become more visible, such as the Stirling engine and thermo-electric generators are particularly useful for small power production.However, the uptake of renewables in general, and biomass in particular, is still considered somewhat risky due to the lack of best practice examples to demonstrate how efficient the technology is today. …”