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Progress in Scale Modeling, Volume II

Selections from the International Symposia on Scale Modeling, ISSM VI (2009) and ISSM VII (2013)

  • Enables readers to evaluate essential and salient aspects of profoundly complex systems, mechanisms, and phenomena at scale

  • Offers engineers and designers a new point of view, liberating creative and innovative ideas and solutions

  • Serves the widest range of readers across the engineering disciplines and in science and medicine

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
  2. Scale Modeling in the Age of High-Speed Computation

    • K. Saito, F. A. Williams
    Pages 1-18
  3. Natural Disasters and Structural Failures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-20
    2. Section B Fire and Explosion - Scale Modeling of Biomass Fire Associated with Hydrogen-Producing Bacteria

      • Tadashi Konishi, Yuta Kawamura, Akira Narumi, Tomek Ziemba
      Pages 57-70
    3. Section B Fire and Explosion - A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuel Beds Part I: Correlations and Observations of Flame Spread

      • Mark A. Finney, Jason Forthofer, Isaac C. Grenfell, Brittany A. Adam, Nelson K. Akafuah, Kozo Saito
      Pages 71-83
    4. Section B Fire and Explosion - A Study of Flame Spread in Engineered Cardboard Fuel Beds Part II: Scaling Law Approach

      • Brittany A. Adam, Nelson K. Akafuah, Mark A. Finney, Jason Forthofer, Kozo Saito
      Pages 85-95
    5. Section B Fire and Explosion - Application of Pressure Fire Modeling Under Low Pressure

      • Zhihui Zhou, Jian Wang, Richard Kwok Kit Yuen
      Pages 97-104
    6. Section B Fire and Explosion - Scale Effects on Consequence Analysis of Accidental Explosions

      • Ritsu Dobashi, Satoshi Kawamura, Ikuto Nishimura, Kazunori Kuwana
      Pages 139-150
    7. Section B Fire and Explosion - Preliminary Reduced Scale Experimental Study on Pool Fires in Tunnels

      • L. W. Pan, S. M. Lo, B. H. Cong, R. K. K. Yuen, Tao Wei, T. S. H. Liang et al.
      Pages 151-165
    8. Section B Fire and Explosion - Scale-Model Experiment of Wind-Generated Fire Whirls

      • Kazunori Kuwana, Kozo Sekimoto, Kozo Saito
      Pages 167-173
    9. Section C Structures - Seismic Behavior of Batter-Pile Foundation Based on Centrifuge Tests

      • Hiroyuki Kimata, Takashi Tazoh, Jiho Jang, Yoichi Taji, Yasunobu Sakai, George Gazetas
      Pages 175-191
  4. Engineering Design Performance Evaluation and Fundamental Understanding Using Scale Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-204
    2. Characteristics of Temperature Fields and Flow Fields in a Heated Street Canyon by Scale Modeling

      • Hironori Kikugawa, Tomoya Sato, Yuki Yonezawa, Nobumasa Sekishita, Tomek Ziemba
      Pages 205-214

About this book

This volume thoroughly covers scale modeling and serves as the definitive source of information on scale modeling as a powerful simplifying and clarifying tool used by scientists and engineers across many disciplines. The bookelucidates techniques used when it would be too expensive, or too difficult, to test a system of interest in the field. Topics addressed in the current edition include scale modeling to study weather systems, diffusion of pollution in air or water, chemical process in 3-D turbulent flow, multiphase combustion, flame propagation, biological systems, behavior of materials at nano- and micro-scales, and many more. This is an ideal book for students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as engineers and scientists interested in the latest developments in scale modeling.

This book also:

  • Enables readers to evaluate essential and salient aspects of profoundly complex systems, mechanisms, and phenomena at scale
  • Offers engineers and designers a new point of view, liberating creative and innovative ideas and solutions
  • Serves the widest range of readers across the engineering disciplines and in science and medicine

Keywords

  • Flame Propagation
  • Modeling 3-D Turbulent Flow
  • Modeling Behavior of Materials at Nano- and Micro-scales
  • Modeling Biological Systems
  • Modeling Chemical Processes
  • Modeling Diffusion of Pollution
  • Modeling Weather Systems
  • Multiphase Combustion
  • Scale Modeling in Engineering Design

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA

    Kozo Saito

  • Hirosaki University, Hirosaki-shi, Japan

    Akihiko Ito

  • Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

    Yuji Nakamura

  • Yamagata University, Yonezawa-shi, Japan

    Kazunori Kuwana

About the editors

Dr. Kozo Saito is affiliated with the University of Kentucky. Dr. Akihiko Ito is affiliated with Hirosaki University. Dr. Kazunori Kuwana is affiliated with Yamagata University. Dr. Yuji Nakamura is affiliated with Toyohashi University of Technology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Progress in Scale Modeling, Volume II

  • Book Subtitle: Selections from the International Symposia on Scale Modeling, ISSM VI (2009) and ISSM VII (2013)

  • Editors: Kozo Saito, Akihiko Ito, Yuji Nakamura, Kazunori Kuwana

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10308-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10307-5Published: 28 November 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35484-2Published: 24 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10308-2Published: 17 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 316

  • Number of Illustrations: 114 b/w illustrations, 114 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes, Measurement Science and Instrumentation

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eBook USD 129.00
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  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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