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Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (4688 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1. A Novel Shaking Incubator Using a Heat Engine: Applications
to Escherichia coli Culture
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Materials and Methods
- 1.3 Results
- 1.4 Modeling
- 1.5 Discussion
- Acknowledgment
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 2. The Lynx and Hare Data of 200 Years as the Nonlinear
Conserving Interaction Based on Noether’s Conservation Laws
and Stability
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The 2-Variable CNIs, Restoration from External Perturbations
- 2.3 The Conservation Law and Properties of -Function
- 2.4 The 4-Variable and (n + m)-Variable CNIs
- 2.5 The 10-Year Population Cycles of Lynx and Hare in 200-Year Data and the Purpose of Nonlinear Analysis on Ecology
- 2.6 Notes on Nonlinear Interactions, Lyapunov Function, Kolmogorov’s Predator-Prey Model, Atto-Fox Problem
- 2.7 Conclusions on the Survival of the Fittest and Symbiosis from Conserving Nonlinear Interactions
- Acknowledgement
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 3. Engineering Applications of a Drinking Bird (DB) and the
Analysis by Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD)
- 3.1 The Thermomechanical Motion of a Drinking Bird
- 3.2 Numerical Results of Thermomechanical DB’s Motion and Moment of Inertia I(t)
- 3.3 Numerical Results of DB’s Internal Energy ε(t), Thermodynamic Work W(t), Temperature T(t), and Heat Q(t)
- 3.4 The Mathematical Analyses of DB’s Internal Energy ε(t), Thermodynamic Work W(t), Temperature T(t), and Entropy S(t)
- 3.5 Concluding Remarks on DB’s Motion and Thermodynamics
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 4. The Application of Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD) to the
Analysis of a Low-Temperature Stirling Engine
- 4.1 The Flywheel Rotations of a Low Temperature Stirling Engine
- 4.2 The Triad Propositions of Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD)
- 4.3 The Classification of Thermodynamic Processes of a Low Temperature Stirling Engine
- 4.4 The Total Heat-Energy Conservation Law, Conditions and Constraints in Q(t)-Picture
- 4.5 The Dissipative Equation of Motion for a System of a Low Temperature Stirling Engine
- 4.6 The Solutions to the Dissipative Equation of Motion and the Piecewise Continuous Force
- 4.7 Internal Energy, Dissipations of Heat and Temperature for a Low Temperature Stirling Engine
- 4.8 Conclusions and Perspectives
- Acknowledgment
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 5. The Profiling of International Roughness Index (IRI)
Based on Lagrangian Method
- 5.1 The Vibrations Produced by Roughness of Road-Surface and the Energy Conversions
- 5.2 Model Lagrangian
- 5.3 Simulations of IRI
- 5.4 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 6. Thermoelectric Energy Conversion of a Drinking Bird by
Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The Nonlinear Differential Equation of a Thermomechanical Drinking Bird
- 6.3 The Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction by a Drinking Bird
- 6.4 Discussions and Perspectives
- 6.5 Appendix: The Energy Generation from Swinging Motion of a Drinking Bird by Employing the Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction (DM-EMI)
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 7. The Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction Applied to
Thermoelectric Energy Conversions
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction (DM-EMI)
- 7.3 The Improvement of DM-EMI Energy Conversions
- 7.4 The Comparison between Discrete Pulse-Current (PC) and Continuous Alternating Current (AC)
- 7.5 DM-EMI Electric Generator in Terms of Radial and Axial Magnetic Flux Lines
- 7.6 Discussions and Perspectives
- Acknowledgment
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 8. A Mechanical Vibration-Induced Electric Energy Generation
(MVEG) and Applications to Ride Quality of Vehicles and International
Roughness Index (IRI)
- Chapter 9. The Method of Thermoelectric Energy Generations Based on
the Axial and Radial Flux Electromagnetic Inductions
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 The Traditional Thermomechanical Converters, and the 3rd Kind New Converter
- 9.3 The Method of TMD
- 9.4 The Equation of Motion for Stirling Engine
- 9.5 The Solution to the Dissipative Equation of Motion of TEG-Stirling Engine
- 9.6 The DM-EMI Applied to TEG-Stirling Engine
- 9.7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Chapter 10. Thermodynamic Consistency and Thermomechanical
Dynamics (TMD) for Nonequilibrium Irreversible Mechanism of Heat
Engines
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 The Time-Dependent Internal Energy ε(t) and the Equation of Motion in the Irreversible Thermomechanical DB Model
- 10.3 The Time-Evolution to Nonequilibrium Irreversible Thermodynamics with (ε(t), T(t)S(t), W(t))
- 10.4 The Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD) for the Nonequilibrium
Irreversible Thermodynamics
- 10.5 Conclusions and Perspectives of Scientific Ways of Thinking
- Bibliography
- Index
- Epilogue
- Biography
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in thermomechanical dynamics.
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Chapter 1. A Novel Shaking Incubator Using a Heat Engine: Applications
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Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 2. The Lynx and Hare Data of 200 Years as the Nonlinear
Conserving Interaction Based on Noether’s Conservation Laws
and Stability
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 3. Engineering Applications of a Drinking Bird (DB) and the
Analysis by Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD)
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 4. The Application of Thermomechanical Dynamics (TMD) to the
Analysis of a Low-Temperature Stirling Engine
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 5. The Profiling of International Roughness Index (IRI)
Based on Lagrangian Method
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 6. Thermoelectric Energy Conversion of a Drinking Bird by
Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 7. The Disk-Magnet Electromagnetic Induction Applied to
Thermoelectric Energy Conversions
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 8. A Mechanical Vibration-Induced Electric Energy Generation
(MVEG) and Applications to Ride Quality of Vehicles and International
Roughness Index (IRI)
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 9. The Method of Thermoelectric Energy Generations Based on
the Axial and Radial Flux Electromagnetic Inductions
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Chapter 10. Thermodynamic Consistency and Thermomechanical
Dynamics (TMD) for Nonequilibrium Irreversible Mechanism of Heat
Engines
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Epilogue
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Biography
Hiroshi Uechi, Schun T. Uechi and Lisa Uechi
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Hiroshi Uechi
Professor. He obtained doctoral degree in nuclear physics from Indiana University, USA, under the guidance of Professor Brian D. Serot who founded the relativistic nuclear field theory, quantum hadrodynamics with Professor John D. Walecka. Currently, he is a professor at Osaka Gakuin University, Japan and works on nuclear many-body theory, nuclear astrophysics, theory of nuclear fission and nonequilibrium irreversible thermodynamics and its applications to energy conversion technologies.
Schun T. Uechi
MS in Physics. He received his Master of Science degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Georgia, USA, and in Mathematics and Physics from Osaka City University, Japan, with strong foundation in theoretical and computational physics. Currently, He is a data scientist in the Finance industry, research and development in Generative Artificial Intelligence, statistical modeling, and machine learning.
Lisa Uechi
PhD in Bioinformatics. She earned doctoral degree in informatics from Kyoto University. She is a Scientist in Bioinformatics at ChromoLogic, LLC, at the University of California, Los Angeles and has contributed to computational biology, bioinformatics focused on biomarker discovery, the prediction of clinical outcomes from large-scale genomic datasets, the discovery of novel miRNA biomarkers for radiation-induced lung injury, and the development of quantitative models for acute myeloid leukemia.