Progress in scale modeling. selections from the International Symposia on Scale Modeling, ISSM VI (2009) and ISSM VII (2013) /: selections from the International Symposia on Scale Modeling, ISSM VI (2009) and ISSM VII (2013). Volume II : ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kozo Saito, Akihiko Ito, Yuji Nakamura, Kazunori Kuwana, editors.
• Editors: Saito, Kozo, 1950-; Ito, Akihiko; Nakamura, Yuji; Kuwana, Kazunori
• Other Names: International Symposium on Scale Modeling, 6th; International Symposium on Scale Modeling, 7th
• Contents: Introduction: Scale Modeling in the Age of High Speed Computation -- Part I: Natural Disasters and Structural Failures -- Section A: Earthquake -- Scale Modeling in the Geotechnical Engineering Field -- Supercomputing and Scale Modeling the Effect of Flotsam Mixed Tsunami: Implication to Tsunami Generated by the 2011 Great East Coast Earthquake -- Section B: Fire and Explosion -- Scale Modeling of Biomass Fire Associated with Hydrogen Producing Bacteria -- A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuelbeds: Part I: Correlations and Observations of Flame Spread -- A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuelbeds: Part II: Scaling Law Approach -- Application of Pressure Fire Modeling Under Low Pressure -- Observation of Confined Deflagration Phenomena of Flammable Gas Mixtures Under Elevated Gravity -- Extinguishment Characteristics of a Jet Diffusion Flame with Inert Gas Vortex Ring -- Effect of Gravity on Flame Spread Along a Thin Combustible Solid for Different Sample Orientations in Opposed-Flow -- Scale Effects on Consequence Analysis of Accidental Explosions -- Preliminary Reduced Scale Experimental Study on Pool Fires in Tunnels -- Scale-Model Experiment of Wind-Generated Fire Whirls -- Section C: Structures -- Seismic Behavior of Batter-Pile Foundation Based on Centrifuge Tests -- Characteristics of the Windmill Structural Fatigue Load in Natural Wind -- Part II: Engineering Design Performance Evaluation And Fundamental Understanding Using Scale Models -- Characteristics of Temperature-Fields and Flow-Fields in a Heated Street Canyon by Scale Modeling -- A Study of the Transition from Natural Convection to Force Convection in Plain and Louvered Fins with Scaling Simulations -- Scale and Numerical Modeling of an Air-Based Density Separator -- Scale-Up of Chemical Looping Combustion -- Scale Effect on Solid Fuel Regression in CAMUI Hybrid Rocket Motor -- Scale Effect Analysis for Locomotion Systems in Different Gravity Fields -- Scale Modeling of Flame Spread over PE-coated Electric Wires -- Scale Modeling of Air-Dropped Water for Aerial Firefighting against Urban Fire -- Effect of Porosity on Flame Spread Along Thin Combustible Solid with Randomly Distributed Pores -- Epilogue: Scale Modeling and Meditation.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 688.1; Engineering; Engineering models -- Congresses; Models and modelmaking -- Congresses; Simulation methods -- Congresses; Scaling laws (Statistical physics) -- Congresses; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades; Engineering models; Models and modelmaking; Scaling laws (Statistical physics); Simulation methods; Civil & Environmental Engineering; Engineering & Applied Sciences; Civil Engineering; Technology & Engineering -- Manufacturing; Science -- Weights & Measures; Production engineering; Mensuration & systems of measurement; Engineering design; Manufactures; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Design -- Product; Technical design; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319103082; 3319103083; 3319103075; 9783319103075
• Related ISBNs: 9783319103075
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed November 19, 2014).
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