Fractals in Engineering New Trends in Theory and Applications [Paperback]

Part 1: Mathematical Aspects.- Theory and Applications of Fractal Tops.- Splines, Fractal Functions, and Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin Spaces.- Hoelderian Random Functions.- Fractal Stationary Density in Coupled Maps.- Part 2: Physics.- A Network of Fractal Force Chains and Their Effect in Granular Materials under Compression.- Percolation and Permeability of Three Dimensional Fracture Networks with a Power Law Size Distribution.- Acoustic Diffraction Patterns from Fractal to Urban Structures: Applications to the Sierpinski Triangle and to a Neoclassical Urban Facade.- Turbulent k - epsilon model of flute-like musical instrument sound production.- Part 3: Chemical Engineering.- A Simple Discrete Stochastic Model for Laser-induced Jet-chemical Etching.- Invariant Structures and Multifractal Measures in 2d Mixing Systems.- Part 4: Finance.- Long Range Dependence in Financial Markets.- Financial Modelling by Multiscale Fractional Brownian Motion.- Part 5: Internet Traffic.- Limiting Fractal Random Processes in Heavy-tailed Systems.- A Non-parametric Test for Self-similarity and Stationarity in Network Traffic.- Part 6: Image Processing.- Continuous Evolution of Functions and Measures Toward Fixed Points of Contraction Mappings.- Various Mathematical Approaches to Extract Information from Textures of Increasing Complexities.- Fractal Inverse Problem: Approximation, Formulation and Differential Methods.

The application of fractals in the engineering sciences is evolving swiftly and the editors have turned to Springer for the third time to bring you the latest research emerging from the rapid growth in techniques available for the employment of the ideas of fractals and complexity to a variety of disciplines in and associated with the engineering field. The strong potential of this research can be seen in real industrial situations with recent progress being made in areas such as chemical engineering, internet traffic, physics and finance. Image processing continues lc�