Practical Aspects of Finite Element Modelling of Polymer Processing

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Authored by a respected scientist with a growing international reputation this is a self-contained text that can be used by the beginners and the experts alike, to study the basic aspects of finite element modelling. It provides a sound physical understanding of the basis on which mathematical models of polymer processes are built.

Written from a chemical engineering rather then a mathematical perspective it enables the reader to get up to speed in a relatively short time
Provides the 'parts and tools' required to assemble finite element models, applicable to situations that arise under realistic conditions
Discusses and compares specific finite element schemes that provide the most reliable and robust numerical solution procedures for polymer processing models
Practical examples give a wide ranging view of the application of finite element analysis to industrial problems
Describes non-Newtonian fluid mechanics equations in a self-contained, concise and clear manner
Includes clear and simple readily compiled code to model simple problems that can be extended to solve more complex polymer processing problems

This book makes the subject accessible to a wide audience ranging from senior under-graduate to post-graduate engineering students, as well as, researchers and practising engineers involved in polymer industry.

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Master the fundamentals of mathematical economics with Schaum's - the high-performance study guide! It will helpyou cut study time, hone- problem-solving skills and achieve your personal best on exams. Students love Schaum's Outline because they produce results. Each year hundreds of thousands of students improve their test scores and final grades with these indispensable study guides. If you don't have a lot of time but want to excel in class, this book helps you: *Use detailed examples to solve problems *Brush up before tests *Find answers fast *Study quickly and more effectively *Get the big picture without spending hours poring over lengthy textbooks Schaum's Outlines give you the information your teachers expect you to know in ahandy and succinct format - without overwhelming you with unnecessary jargon. you get a complete overview of the subject. Plus, you get plenty of practice exercises to test your skill. Compatible with any classroom text, Schaum's let you study at your own pace and remind you of all the important facts you need to remember - fast! And Schaum's are so complete, they're perfect for preparing for graduate or professional exams. Inside, you will find: *Full coverage of Mathematical Economics, from derivatives to phase diagrams *Simplified expanations of indefinite and definite integral calculus *710 solved problems in mathematical economics, including step-by-step annotations *Examples and worked problems that help you master mathematical economics If you want top grades and a thorough understanding of mathematical economics, this powerful study tool is the best tutor you can have!

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Has greatly improved my understanding of mathematical economics.......2007-09-07

This book has been a great help in understanding mathemayical economics. Each subjet starts with an explanation of how the math works. Then works each problems step by step to show how it all works together and they don't skip steps like some economics texts do. With the help of this book i am inverting matrix.

Good book .......2005-07-23

This is a good book for those studying calculas or various business subjects. It is easily explained with a lot of examples.

An excellent resource.......2005-06-18

This is an excellent book for non-quant jockeys who want to brush up on their mathematical skills for upper-level or graduate-level econ courses. The best strength of the book is its organization. After a chapter on introduction and discussion of a mathematical technique or theory, a chapter on the technique's application is presented. This is an excellent way to not only reinforce the material but demonstrate its applications and relavence to economics.

However, several caveats should be noted:

First, I believe that the ideal reader should already have some exposure to calculus. For instance, Dowling discusses the fundamentals of differentiation in about 26 pages, which is far too little if one is learning calculus from scratch. If the reader already has some exposure to calculus (as I did), then Dowling's chapters on differentiation and integration could be used as review.

Second, the learning curve really steepens in the latter chapters when Dowling discusses differential equations as he appears to sacrifice detailed explanations for brevity.

Lastly, I think the reader would be best served to use this book as a resource and not just as the main text. Mathematical Economics is a very broad and challenging subject, and as good as this book is, it only scratches the surface of a complex topic. I would also recommend "Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics" by Alpha Chiang.

Highly recommended.

The book is pathetic.......2005-01-18

Each question posed by the book is accompanied by a solution, which is a good thing, however, the solutions provided by the text include very few steps and little explanation. Furthermore, the questions in the text are way too simple. [...]

Mathematical Economics (3rd Edition).......2004-02-22

This is an excellent book. I would recommend it for anyone wishing to learn mathematical economics. It is equally beneficial to college students, who can use this book as a supplement to their textbook, and to those who want to use this book for self-study. For anyone who is weak in mathematical knowledge, the author presents the necessary mathematical skills needed to understand how to work the problems. As the author states: "No mathematical proficiency beyond the high school level is assumed at the start." All the required concepts are clearly explained.

The problems range from the easier to the more challenging ones. For example, some of the chapters include doing proofs, although these are limited to a minimum. In fact, only the chapter on "Simultaneous Differential and Difference Equations," out of all the chapters, contains a greater proportion of problems dealing with proofs - a little less than one-half of the total problems at the end of this chapter involve proofs.

This 3rd edition excludes three chapters on linear programming which were included in the 2nd edition. However, three other chapters were added instead: comparative statics and concave programming, simultaneous differential and difference equations, and optimal control theory.

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Provides a friendly, self-instructional approach to lifelong understanding of pharmaceutical calculations. Filled with real-world practice problems and the author's good humor and encouragement, this book thoroughly covers every topic related to pharmaceutical calculations that a pharmacy technician needs to know. Over 500 practice problems are spread throughout the book's 12 chapters, including answer key/solutions in the back. The book concludes with a 101-question "post-test" with each question being a real-world problem a technician might encounter in pharmacy practice.

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great review.......2007-01-03

This book was perfect for someone new in the phamacy technician role. It started at very basic information and worked its way up to pretty difficult problem. There were lots of examples. I passed the exam and knew how to work every math problem on the test. Great buy!!

Wonderful teaching tool.......2006-02-21

I use this book as a teaching tool in my pharmacy technician classes. The students have commented that it is a great help in familiarizing them with the type of math encountered both in class and on the certification exams. Chapter 2 has helpful conversion charts and tables for the different measurement systems, enabling students to become familiar with them even before they start the class. The practice problems with answers are very helpful.

Amazon =empty promises.......2005-09-21

I ordered this book through amazone and they said it would ship....in time for my class.....now I get an e-mail asking me to "approve" a shipping date which might get the book to me about three quarters of the way through the course. I AM FURIOUS.

good.. but not great.......2003-03-26

Too basic. Looks like abc arithmetics. I couldn't find stuff such as "Parenteral Medication" calculations -- the hard stuff. Has elementary school pictures, layout, fonts. I feel like I'm reading a children's math book. Has all the correct answers in the back. I would recommend this for someone who knows nothing about math. But I would't recommend this for someone looking for hard questions.

Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences

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Fractal Reviews in the Natural and Applied Sciences
M.M. Novak
Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC
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This book contains state of the art contributions to this rapidly growing research area. It will be of essential value to mathematicians, physicists and engineers working in the fields of fractals and related phenomena and to researchers working in medicine and the life sciences.

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what a book.......2005-02-22

i read this book at bedtime last night. it was immense. i was hooked. my friends father wrote it so it was extraa special. i reccomend this book to everyone. Thank you very much.

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Financial Math Review
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This collection of lively, detailed anecdotes provides a glimpse of what life was like for Kenneth Macdonald as he grew up in 1891 in the village of Sandwick, Isle of Lewis. A picture of a kind, sympathetic, and exceptionally popular teacher at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway is painted, highlighting a man whose interest in ordinary folk was what motivated his whole life. Macdonald was regarded as one of the pioneers of socialism in the Isles at a time when leftist leanings were equated with Bolshevism. The embodiment of his feelings for the warm and close-knit Highland way of life prompted his poetry and plays in Gaelic, some of which were broadcast on the BBC, where he was also a Gaelic newsreader. Told largely through Macdonald's own words, true stories provide a social history of a unique time and place.

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A sheltered and privileged American in China.......2003-10-28

After reading Mr. Shapiro's "I Choose China", I have had much mixed feelings.

In the book, Mr. Shapiro's tone about Mao is almost identical as the "People's Daily" - the official Chinese newspaper of propaganda nature. He is positive about Deng XiaoPing and his successors as well.

In reality, Deng abolished Mao's policies and created a capitalistic society in 1979. It makes me wonder why Mr. Shapiro wrote about Mao according to the Chinese official guidelines while most Chinese people know very well that Mao was a man who committed unpardonable crimes to the Chinese people.

To many Chinese, Mao was a devil while Deng was a "kind of" saint. How can the devil and the saint be praised in the same time?

Mr. Shapiro narrated that his money was tight due to the Chinese currency being low in terms of the exchange rates. The cost of foreign travel was astronomical to the Chinese citizens. Yet he was able to travel to the US and Europe for many times including the pre-Deng years. How were his trips funded? The Chinese government gave him special treatment? I would think so. His grand daughter could even attend an expensive private school in Minnesota. Who paid for it? Alas, politics, connections, privileges etc... Were the readers informed? Nah...

To sum up, like they have done to many other westerners who live in China in the past and present, I think the Chinese government for political reasons has used Mr. Shapiro. These westerners were sheltered, were provided comfortable living, and were used for propaganda.

While I admire the great classical translation works by Mr. Shapiro (like Shui Hu and Family by Ba Jin), with much regret, I have to say that Sidney Shapiro only painted the bright side of the Chinese society in his book. The many years of darkness were simply buried.To state it unkindly, the author was a product of brainwash, Chinese style.

A very American Chinese, or a very Chinese American.......2003-02-02

Sidney Shapiro went to China just after World War II. He had studied Chinese before coming, but he did not have a background in China, and had not planned to stay. He met and married a Chinese woman, and ended up staying on after the Communist takeover, working for the Chinese government as a translator. Shapiro is a very lucid writer, and easy to follow, but he seems obliged to rationalize some things about his adopted country that are hard to defend. For example, he says that Western missionaries left China after the war because they "were not needed anymore." Although I believe that his description of his life in China is an honest portrayal, there is always the feeling that he is sugarcoating policies that were clearly ill-fated. But Shapiro's book is just as noticeable for the things he concedes, such as the lack of press freedom in China. This book would be of special interest to individuals with an American frame of reference, because Shapiro is an American, and he writes in a very American style. Yet, he has lived and worked in China since just after World War II, a period of 50 years at the time the book was written in the mid nineties. Clearly, he has a better perspective on China than any other American born writer. You will not want to miss this book, but I would suggest reading a few of the others first, so that you have a little better framework from which to evaluate this one.

Insightful and fascinating.......2000-05-01

I read his book with curiosity. I paid attention to hisnarration of political events and found them to be chronologicallyprecise. The only drawback is that he had neutralized many of the notorious events like Tiananmen Massacre and the Cultural Revolution etc.

The Chinese revolution is a tragedy from the very start when Dr Sun had to ally himself with the communists and Soviet Russia, but Mr Shapiro apparently was more influenced by the events starting from 1947 and the full-blown civil wars between communists and nationalists.

One thing I would like to point out is that Mr Shapiro, like all the communists and the people of the privileged class (enjoying free medicare, housing, retirement pay, car, and free trips to USA and Israel), would be doomed to ignore the nature of Chinese society, i.e., communists CASTE society, where 70-80% of Chinese population still live, without the aforementioned benefits: the daughters of those peasants burnt to death in prison-like toy factories set up by the joint ventures of red capitalists and foreign capitalists in SEZ and costal cities, the husbands and youths being the coolie responsible for buidling the skycrapers across China, and the wives tilling the fields under the sun and in the rains for 50 years. Mr Shapiro would not understand that while gestapos could move around in China or out of China using multiple passports, the people in the CASTE could not do so, with miners continuing to die on the yearly basis in caveins and explosions, the oil-workers continuing to be contained in Western China, and the peasant-born children forever bound to their birthplace.

-- CASTE means the children born would have to take mother's birth place as their locality of registration under communist doctrines, for sake of social stability and their ease of economic exploitation.

Certainly, I would give credit to his account of Chinese history, especially the part about Qin's terra cotta sooldiers, the civil service exams, the ancient legal system, and the history of Se Mu Ren (color-eyed people) and the Jew history in China. History-wise, I would only add that Han Dynasty was not a succession of Qin Empire in any sense. In fact, the beginning of Han is a RESTORATION of Zhou Dynasty system, namely, the restoration of dukedoms and principalities, as manifested by the enthronement of those kings and dukes in respective localities of those dukedoms and principalities, under the supervision of nominal king of Chu (a shephard boy, said to be the grandson of last Chu king) and the two generals of Xiang Yu and Liu Bang (later the first emperor of Han).

I would say a critical analysis of the book is worthwhile, and a comparative study with other books such as the one written by Mao's personal doctor from year 1955 to 1976 would be of great help.

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