This new edition establishes and supports the essential concepts, mathematical framework, analytic resources, and productive skills to confidently address any rational system for quantitative evaluation. However, earlier reliance upon the rigorous mathematical tools developed will now be effectively supported by MATLAB. Coupling the previous editions rigorous mathematical development with MATLAB should permit any rational system to be quantified and evaluated. The author has been granted access to the MATLAB array of products as a participating author using MathWorks technical publications and promoting MATLAB resources. This new edition includes the following key updates:
• All mathematical and technical materials from the first edition have been reviewed and updated.
• Revision of all chapter problems and incorporation of MATLAAB and the Symbolic Elimination of Runge-Kutta computer algorithms and replacement with applicable MATLAB Toolboxes for supporting computer aided tools system development and analysis.
• The Symbolic Toolbox will serve as the major software package in support of the second edition because of its effectiveness in system modelling.
• Expansion of Chapter 9, “Specific System Science Applications”
• Addition of new chapter 10, “Generalize Algorithm for Developing and Analysing System”
• The author also plans to investigate and develop a standardized approach for system modelling based upon following a new generic algorithm that will be defined in the textbook.
About the Author :
Gary Marlin Sandquist is Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He owns and operates Applied Science Professionals, LLC, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the American Nuclear Society. His research focuses on nuclear science and engineering, risk assessment, nuclear and reactor physics, health physics, and more.
Zakary Robert Wilde is a doctoral candidate in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Arizona State University and an engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His researches focus on testing, simulation, and visualization of high-speed dynamic events as well as developing simplified models for complex physical and engineering systems.
