1. BASIC CONCEPTS OF NMR-CT

Basic Concepts and Models 1

Drawdown Automata , Part 1 : Basic Concepts

The choice of the term drawdown automata is deliberate; that is exactly the purpose for which we’ll use them. A cellular automaton, as a whole, passes through a succession of configurations corresponding to the states of its cells. The automaton goes from one configuration to another at discrete intervals of time, the states of all its cells changing in parallel. The change of state of a cell i...

Basic Concepts

Motivation Most problems in nature have several (possibly conflicting) objectives to be satisfied. Many of these problems are frequently treated as single-objective optimization problems by transforming all but one objective into constraints. What is a multiobjective optimization problem? The Multiobjective Optimization Problem (MOP) (also called multicriteria optimization, multiperformance or ...

Complex concepts into basic concepts

Complex Concepts into Basic Concepts Rick Szostak University of Alberta Tory Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2H4, Canada [email protected] 780-492-7645; FAX 780-492-3300 ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary communication, and thus the rate of progress in scholarly understanding, would be greatly enhanced if scholars had access to a universal classification of documents or ideas not grounded in particu...

Basic Concepts of Thermomechanics

This paper is intended to serve as a model for the first few chapters of future textbooks on continuum mechanics and continuum thermomechanics. It may be considered an update of the paper Lectures on the Foundations of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics [N2] by one of us (W.N.), published in 1973, and an elaboration of topics treated in Part 3, entitled Updating the Non-Linear Field Theorie...