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Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods XXXII
WIT Press 2010; US$ 256.00The Conference on Mesh Reduction Methods and Boundary Elements (MRM/BEM) is recognised as the international forum for the latest advances of these methods and their applications in sciences and engineering. The book should be of interest to engineers and scientists working within the areas of numerical analysis, boundary elements and meshless methods.Since... more...
Modelling in Medicine and Biology
WIT Press 2011; US$ 190.00The idea of preparing this volume originated from the ever increasing importance of computational modelling of complex problems in medicine. Considerable advances have been made in this area as demonstrated by the continued success of the International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology.The... more...
Sustainability Today
WIT Press 2012; US$ 440.00The contents of the book reflect that interdisciplinary approach, and include the following topics: Sustainable Development and Planning; Energy and Sustainability; Food and Environment; Water Resources Issues; Sustainable Tourism; and Waste Management and Soil Recovery. more...
Urban Transport XVI
WIT Press 2010; US$ 278.00This international conference on Urban Transport and the Environment has successfully been reconvened annually for the last sixteen years. It has always attracted a wide international spread of delegates and is well established as the premier annual event of its type. It first started in Southampton, UK in 1995; continuing in Barcelona, Spain (1996);... more...
Design and Nature V
WIT Press 2010; US$ 474.00With the onward march of science and technology, and the continuing quest for improvement, there is a growing curiosity about the world around us. Close examination of structures in nature can be rewarding and surprising. Nature has shown an extraordinary capacity to develop dynamic structures and systems over many millions of years and there is still... more...
Advances in Fluid Mechanics VIII
WIT Press 2010; US$ 462.00This book discusses the basic formulations of fluid mechanics and their computer modelling, as well as the relationship between experimental and analytical results. Containing papers from the Eighth International Conference on Advances in Fluid Mechanics, the book will be a seminal text to scientists, engineers and other professionals interested in... more...
Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment II
WIT Press 2010; US$ 218.00This book contains the edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment, held in Cyprus, in 2010. The conference was organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens. The current emphasis on sustainable development... more...
Monitoring, Simulation, Prevention and Remediation of Dense and Debris Flows III
WIT Press 2010; US$ 218.00Debris and hyper-concentrated flows are among the most destructive of all water related disasters. They affect both rural and urban areas in a wide range of morpho-climatic environments, and in recent years have attracted more and more attention from the scientific and professional communities and concern from the public due to the death toll they... more...
Island Sustainability
WIT Press 2010; US$ 232.00Current global socio-economic trends call attention to the endangered conditions of relatively confined environments all over the world. Many of these regions face problems of depopulation and lack of adequate infrastructures. The problems are aggravated for the case of islands, which have limited resources and few possibilities of developing... more...
Disaster Management and Human Health Risk
WIT Press 2009; US$ 316.00Recently, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of natural disasters affecting millions of people, destroying property and resulting in loss of human life. These events include major flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and many others. Today the world faces unparalleled threats from human-made disasters that can be attributed to failure... more...









