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Modeling and Simulation have become endeavors central to all disciplines of science and engineering. They are used in the analysis of physical systems where they help us gain a better understanding of the functioning of our physical world. They are also important to the design of new engineering systems where they enable us to predict the behavior of a system before it is ever actually built. Modeling and simulation are the only techniques available that allow us to analyze arbitrarily non-linear systems accurately and under varying experimental conditions. Continuous System Modeling introduces the student to an important subclass of these techniques. They deal with the analysis of systems described through a set of ordinary or partial differential equations or through a set of difference equations. This volume introduces concepts of modeling physical systems through a set of differential and/or difference equations. The purpose is twofold: it enhances the scientific understanding of our physical world by codifying (organizing) knowledge about this world, and it supports engineering design by allowing us to assess the consequences of a particular design alternative before it is actually built. This text has a flavor of the mathematical discipline of dynamical systems, and is strongly oriented towards Newtonian physical science.
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Book Title: Continuous System Modeling
Authors: François E. Cellier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3922-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97502-3Published: 23 May 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-3924-4Published: 14 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3922-0Published: 14 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 756
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Theory, Control, Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization