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Difference engine

Known as: Difference machine, Difference Engine No. 2, Difference Engine No. II 
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. The name derives from the method of divided… 
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2010
Highly Cited
2010
Characterizing the impact of diffusive and advective soil gas transport on the measurement and interpretation of the isotopic signal of soil respiration
2010
2010
Photocurrent Modeling and Detectivity Optimization in a Resonant-Tunneling Quantum-Dot Infrared Photodetector
Theoretical modeling of the photocurrent and detectivity optimization of a resonant-tunneling quantum-dot infrared photodetector… 
2009
2009
Simulation of the Meander Delay Line using the Hybrid Method
The hybrid method of analysis of the microstrip meander delay line (MMDL), which takes into account non-periodicity of electrical… 
2006
2006
Exponential Stability of a Class of Hyperbolic PDE Models from Chemical Engineering
We study a class of dynamical systems described by symmetric hyperbolic partial differential equations (abbreviated to PDE). We… 
2003
2003
Numerical modeling of the conductive heat transfer in western Anatolia
Using the available data, the crustal temperatures were modeled along two profiles in the western Anatolia. Modeling was achieved… 
2002
2002
Stochastic Analysis of Transient Flow in Heterogeneous, Variably Saturated Porous Media: The van Genuchten–Mualem Constitutive Model
In this study, on the basis of the van Genuchten–Mualem constitutive relationship, we develop a general nonstationary stochastic… 
2001
2001
Inverse reactive transport simulator (INVERTS): an inverse model for contaminant transport with nonlinear adsorption and source terms
1996
1996
Babbage's Miraculous Computation Revisited
Charles Babbage used an example suggested by the computational power of his calculating engine to suggest that ‘miraculous events… 
1993
1993
Inverse and optimal drive problems in elasticity imaging of soft tissues
In elasticity imaging a surface deformation is applied to the object and the resulting induced strains in the interior of the… 
1984
1984
A unified method for calculating engine flows
In recent years, Multidimensional Models (MDMs) have been developed for calculating the flow and other processes in engine… 
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