Simulation Books

Great book for the theorist and experimentalist! I used the section on Epilepsy and the Neural Code for a grant I wrote. This book is a great reference and time spent reading it is very well rewarded. I bought the 1st & 2nd editions which are very different. Both editions are worth buying if one is involved with computer modeling, computation, mathematics, and plain old fashion recording neurophysiology.

How do you write a review by multiple authors who are authorities in the respective fields of each chapter? Carefully. Does the review need to contain the usual metaphors which when finally finished leave a prospective researcher with feelings of Oprah's book store. No. So let's start. The book contains general overall experimental setups on the "dry" sort, giving the broad over all design or outline of the direction of the model (read calculations) then includes the formulas at the end each chapter. Extremely nice for incorporation into MathCad or Matlab. (this is not as simple as it sounds, moving a high verbage book into something meaningful on a computer can't always be with as much style and grace as one wants). Most of the models however are, for want of a better discripter, "realistic".I guess this means they are not movies. Whether a model is done using ionic balanced equations or transfer functions seems somewhat academic to me as long as the information gained is useful. The level at which one can "view" these models certainly depends on the math and assets one can throw at the problem. As an example without to much "sweat" most of the cable equations, represented either as diffusion or electrical can be simulated far better in Matlabs PDE toolbox using Finite Element Methods. This allows the model to be viewed from the same point of view at different aspects. And why some kind of transfer functions cannot be made, and used in classical control theory, I'm working on now. Most of the equations using standard algebraic formulas work better in Mathcad using iterative range variables in extinction type modeling. This allows for the injection of pharmalogical testing data based on frequency manipulation, along digital signal processing lines. And running out of room, why not just take the data, use it to train a neural net and then use a Segueno fuzzy inference system to solve for the equations of state, which works very well for large systems (heart)such as the McKay-Glass non-linear types?

The book covers many additional information on flight. The two chapters on flight basics and radio navigation are even more comprehensive and clear than the new help in FS95, including some mathematics explanations. The only weakness is missing description on aerobatics and new scenery. But bear in mind, it is written for 5.1 version primarily. Anyway, the information is very usable to new FS pilot. If you want to buy a book for FS 5.1 or even FS95, I strongly advice you to buy this one. No doubt, it is good, much much better than the new edition

Even though this book was written two years ago and Microsoft has since released two versions after the one this book was written for, the book is still quite useful. Taking you from the simple act of taxiing around the airport, to IFR navigation and low visibility landings, the information included in this book is usable with just about any version of MS Flight Simulator. Highly recommended.

This book is great, it provides a extense presentation of concepts of modelling and various examples and applications.

Very fast to get it. The package is strong enough to protect the book.

Sorry Larry for the lack of response. Such is the life-cycle of free software. However, finally a new downloadable software package which supports recent Windows releases is available from HERE.

1. Book is for new complex computer systems. However I use in support of an aging Naval Aviation Aircraft ( A/C ). I am no mathematician, however with my trusty ERA books on Calculus, Statistics, and Vector Calculus, I was able to " tread the waters ". I have performed many, many Reliability & Support Analysis, and CARMS provides another very usefull tool. Math majors should have no difficulty with the subject matter, however applying this is the high light of the book;
2. I have been very unsucessfull in trying to reach the authors to make recommendations on the next revision. I request assistance, and will leave my employment phone number below. Thanks.

V/R,
Larry Tyson///904-542-5454X122 P-3C FST-6 ( Avionics ) NADEP Jacksonville, Fl.

I'm an instructional designer and I've chosen to use this book as both for a text in classes I instruct and as a handbook for working with faculty members at my university. The book focuses on ways to help students think better using technology tools, many of which are commonly available (such as spreadsheets). Many such books focus on ways to use technology first, with practical applications for teaching and learning second. Not so in this case. If you have to buy just one book on instructional technology, this is the one.

I think that every teacher would be wise to read this book. It does an excellent job of demonstrating the constructionist principle, and its suggestions for using technology to help students think for themselves and develop new ways of thinking, is very good.

I've read many books on technology and education, and I have taught educators about technology. This has so far been the most intriguing book on the subject, and a book that got me to "think outside the box" (in a good way), more than any other book on the subject, other than the Problem Solving with Technology book in the same series.

As it's name implies this book covers only elementary methods, and this makes it extremely useful for beginners. Particularly higher undergraduate and graduate students with no previous knowledge of computer simulation methods. It is very kind with the reader, being very explicit on many topics other books take for granted. The sections on hard sphere simulation are particularly long compared with other books on the subject. The code included is very well organized and helpful, every book should have it documented this way!. If you program in fortran it's very useful, but if you program in C I recommend Rapaport's book instead, altough it's a little more difficult. I particularly liked the introduction about simulation and some phylosophical aspects of it.

If you're just getting started in molecular dynamics, especially if it's not really where you wanted to be in the first place, this may be the book for you.

The pace is brisk. Readers unsure of their calculus or Newtonian physics may struggle. The brief first chapter addresses the basics: what are the questions, which ones can computation address, and with what result. Chapters two to five develop successively more refined models up through Lennard-Jones soft-sphere models. That puts the reader about half-way through the book, to the point where it becomes less about physics and more about real chemistry. The next two chapters deal with the basics of thermodynamics and a bit on evaluating stability of the computed results.

The last third of the book is mostly appendices. The first three are decidedly of interest to the chemistry beginner, but the next dozen or so could have been dropped with no harm to the book's main content. "A Random-Number Generator" and "Conventions for Naming Variables in Fortran" are redundant and irrelevant (respectively) in most contemporary computing environments. If someone needs computing advice at that level, they're probably not ready for the load this book presents.

What's good is very good, though. The introduction material is sensible and adequately rigorous, with many and varied references at the end of each chapter. My interest in computational chemistry is mostly in the computation, not in the chemistry. Given that computational chemistry is a huge field, Haile has done a good job of keeping a sharp focus on one range of techniques and on a specific level of reader.

//wiredweird

This book contains the MODOFC software package and associated documentation that implements many of the methods described in the book. Very worthwhile.

I especially appreciated that each chapter ended with a summary of selected references and brief histories of the methodologies presented in the book.

Drs. Ahlfeld and Mulligan bring the art of optimal groundwater remediation and management to the practitioner in this well thought out and written book. It contains the descriptions of the mathematics that describe the management challenges, application advice as well as the code on a CD. The book is a must read to anyone in the field of environmental remediation where the optimal use of groundwater resources or cost minimization of remediation is of value.

Larry M. Deschaine PE, Systems Analyst, Fortune 500 Company.

The software that comes with this book couples perfectly with Stanford's GSLIB (geostatistical software). Worth the money.

This book is an excellent overview on said topic. Clean, concise, and practical, it's often referenced.

This is a hilarious little book of spoof golfing definitions written by golfers for golfers. It captures the disappointments and frustrations that all golfers know so well. Keep it as a reference guide!

If you are a golfer,, good or bad. This is a great book for you. Also give it as a gift to the golfer you know. It will cause you to laugh out loud, and you will see yourself and so many others within the pages. It`s just for fun, but packed with true-isms, and half true-isms! Good to pull out on those rainy days, while waiting at the 19th hole, or at golf parties !!!!

I am interested to purchase books about the following: 1. Shiphandling with Tugs. 2. Naval Shiphandling. 3. Shiphandling for the Mariner. 4. Shiphandling Simulation. also, I am interested in marine books as Seamanship, Navigation, Salvag, Hydrographic Servey, Ship stability and Marine Meterology.

I am interested to purchase books about the following: 1. Shiphandling with Tugs. 2. Naval Shiphandling. 3. Shiphandling for the Mariner. 4. Shiphandling Simulation. also, I am interested in marine books as Seamanship, Navigation, Salvag, Hydrographic Servey, Ship stability and Marine Meterology.