Applied calculus of variations for engineers.

9781420086621

Applied calculus of variations for engineers.

Komzsik, Louis.

CRC / Taylor & Francis

2009

170 pages

$59.95

Hardcover

TA347

This textbook on applied calculus of variations is aimed at engineers who need to find solutions to problems that involve optimal quantities, shapes and functions. Komzsik, chief numerical analyst at Siemens PLM Software, provides the fundamentals of calculus of variations before explaining constrained variational problems, multivariate functions, higher order derivatives, inverse problems and direct methods. He then describes specific engineering applications such as differential geometry, computational geometry, analytic mechanics and computational mechanics.

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