Crc Materials Science

The CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition is the most comprehensive source available for data on engineering materials.

The CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition is the most comprehensive source available for data on engineering materials.

ISBN: 0849326966
Title: CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, Third Edition
Author: William Alexander
Publisher: CRC Press

This textbook introduces modern techniques based on computer simulation to study materials science. It starts from first principles calculations enabling to calculate the physical and chemical properties by solving a many-body Schroedinger equation with Coulomb forces. For the exchange-correlation term, the local density approximation is usually applied. After the introduction of the first principles treatment, tight-binding and classical potential methods are briefly introduced to indicate how one can increase the number of atoms in the system.