• ISBN13: 9780471733140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Engineering
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: January 1, 2007
• Pages: 372
• Original Price: USD 202.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 685 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Engineering (General) and Applied

From the Back Cover

The first book on DPSM--a patented new technology that is superior for solving/modeling engineering problems

In the last few decades, numerical methods like Finite Element Method (FEM) and Boundary Element Method (BEM) have been used for solving a variety of engineering problems in bounded and unbounded geometries, but they are not interchangeable across homogeneous and inhomogeneous media and encounter difficulties at high frequencies. Now, Distributed Point Source Method (DPSM) has been developed for solving ultrasonic, magnetic, electrostatic, and electromagnetic engineering problems with a single, unified technique.

In DPSM--unlike FEM and BEM--it is not necessary to discretize or mesh the problem geometry or its boundary. Instead, point sources are placed near the boundaries and interfaces to build a model that can correctly take into account the radiation and continuity conditions at these interfaces, making it a faster and more versatile method than the conventional numerical techniques.

Valuable for graduate students and engineers in research and development, this book covers basic and advanced theories and applications of DPSM and includes a User's Manual for the DPSM-based computer program.

Dominique Placko, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France. He is the author/coauthor of over 100 scientific papers, editor/coeditor of eight books, and holder of fifteen patents. He started a new Interdisciplinary Conference on Instrumentation in 1998 and the scientific French journal Instrumentation, Mesure, Métrologie in 2001. He received the Blondel Award in 1998.

Tribikram Kundu, PhD, is a Professor at the University of Arizona and winner of the Humboldt Research Prize from Germany. He has been an invited professor in France, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Switzerland. He is the editor of twelve books and three research monographs and author/coauthor of two textbooks and over 200 scientific papers, three of which received Best Paper awards.