Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats

Using Mathematical Modeling in the Material, Biophysical, Fluid Mechanical, and Chemical Sciences
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-05007-2
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 554 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Advances in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats: Using Mathematical Modeling in the Material, Biophysical, Fluid Mechanical, and Chemical Sciences focuses on those assumptions made during applied mathematical modeling in which the phenomenological data and the model predictions are self-consistent. This comprehensive reference demonstrates how to employ a variety of mathematical techniques to quantify a number of problems from the material, biophysical, fluid mechanical, and chemical sciences. In doing so, methodology of modelling, analysis, and result generation are all covered.

Key Features:

- Includes examples on such cases as solidification of alloys, chemically-driven convection of dissociating gases, temperature-dependent predator-prey mite systems, multi-layer and two-phase fluid phenomena, viral-target cell interactions, diffusive and gravitational instabilities, and chemical, material science, optical, and ecological Turing patterns.

- Aims to make the process of quantification of scientific phenomena transparent.

- Is a hybrid semi-autobiographical account of research results and a monograph on pattern formation.

This book is for everyone with an interest in how both scientific contributions are made and mathematical modelling is developed from first principles in STEM fields.

For errata, please visit the author's website.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wollkind, David

Dichone, Bonni J

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Biochemie (med.)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biophysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Solidification and Melting of Dilute Binary Alloys
3. Chemically Driven Convection of Dissociating Gases
4. Temperature-Dependent Predator-Prey Mite Interaction on Apple Tree Foliage
5. Multi-Layer Fluid Phenomena: Rayleigh-Bénard-Marangoni Convection and Kelvin-
Helmholtz Rock Folding
6. Two-Phase Fluid Flow of Aerosols and Convection in Planetary Atmospheres
7. Chemical Turing Patterns and Diffusive Instabilities
8. Evolution Equation Phenomenon I: Lubrication Theory of Liquids
9. Evolution Equation Phenomenon II: Ion-Sputtering of Solids
10. Evolution Equation Phenomenon III: Nonlinear Optical Pattern Formation
11. Evolution Equation Phenomenon IV: Nonlinear Vegetative Pattern Formation
12. Diffusive Versus Differential Flow Instabilities I: Dryland Turing Pattern Formation
13. Diffusive Versus Differential Flow Instabilities II: Mussel Bed Turing Pattern Formation
14. Root Suction Driven Vegetative Rhombic Pattern Formation
15. Subcritical Behavior of a Model Interaction-Dispersion Equation
16. Non-Cytopathic Viral-Target Cell Dynamical System Interaction
17. Jeans’ Criterion for Gravitational Instabilities with Uniform Rotation
18. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

David J. Wollkind is Professor Emeritus at Washington State University, USA. Bonni Dichone is a retired Full Professor of Applied Mathematics, formerly at Gonzaga University, USA.