Mathematical Methods in Engineering

This book contains some of the contributions under five main titles that are carefully selected according to the reports of referees, presented at the Inter- national Symposium, MME06 Mathematical Methods in Engineering, held in C¸ankaya University, Ankara, April 27–29, 2006. The Symposium provided a setting for discussing recent developments in Fractional Mathematics, Neutrices and Generalized Functions, Boundary Value Problems, Applications of Wavelets, Dynamical Systems and Control Theory.
The members of the organizing committee were Dumitru Baleanu, Ronald A. DeVore, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Ali H. Nayfeh and Kenan Tas (Chairman). Lecturers of the Symposium were Om P. Agrawal, Brian Fisher, J.A. Tenreiro Machado, Francesco Mainardi, Hans J. Stetter.
The editors of this book are grateful to the President of the board of trustees of C¸ankaya University Sitki Alp, to the Rector Prof.Dr. Ziya Akta¸ s for their continuous support of the Symposium activities. We are also obliged to the TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) for their co-sponsorship.
We would like to thank all the referees and other colleagues who helped in preparing this book for publication. Our thanks are also due to all participants for their contributions to the Symposium and to this book.
The Organizing Committee wishes to express their thanks to Prof.Dr. Emel Dogramaci, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and to the colleagues of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of C¸ankaya University: A. Eris, F. Kumsel, M. Cenk, A. Bilgen, H. Baydar, Ozlem Defterli and A. Kabarcik who provided valuable work during the Symposium, and to our students: C. Acar, S. Arik, M.T. Dinc, K. Dogan, K.U. Aydin, R. Cebe, S. Ozsahin, B. Tasar, H. Hatipoglu, Y. Kaya, I.N. Ekim for their assistance.
Our special thanks are due to Nathalie Jacobs and Anneke Pot from Springer-Verlag for their continuous help and work in connection with this book. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to Isil Gence, web master of the Symposium.