Product Description: Ocean structures, such as ships, boats, piers, docks, rigs and platforms, are subject to fair weather wind and waves, as well as violent storms. A scientific analysis of these structures, under varying conditions, requires a mix of civil engineering, physics and applied mathematics...read more

Product Description: A summary of the Proceedings of the First International Conference of UPoN, held in Hungary in 1996, which discussed the subject of noise and random fluctuations. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: P. Lévy's work on random walks with infinite moments, developed more than half a century ago, has now been fully appreciated as a foundation of probabilistic aspects of fractals and chaos as well as scale-invariant processes. This is the first book for physicists devoted to Lévy processes...read more

Product Description: Presents the proceedings of the conference on nonlinear dynamics of ocean waves held at Johns Hopkins University, USA, 30-31 May 1991.