Modeling and Convexity
Author： Eduardo Souza de Cursi
Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781118622391
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781848211773
Subject： TB11 engineering mathematics
Language： ENG
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Description
This reference book gives the reader a complete but comprehensive presentation of the foundations of convex analysis and presents applications to significant situations in engineering. The presentation of the theory is self-contained and the proof of all the essential results is given. The examples consider meaningful situations such as the modeling of curvilinear structures, the motion of a mass of people or the solidification of a material. Non convex situations are considered by means of relaxation methods and the connections between probability and convexity are explored and exploited in order to generate numerical algorithms.
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