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The book Analytic Element Method from Alpha Script Publishing (paperback)is a scam. amazon link
from wikipedia: Alphascript Publishing sells free articles as expensive books
An Amazon.com book search on 9 June 2009 gives 1009 (6 August, gives 1,859) "books" from Alphascript Publishing.[nan 1] 1003 of the books are described as "by John McBrewster, Frederic P. Miller, and Agnes F. Vandome". They are called editors in the book listings. It seems the only content of the many books is free Wikipedia articles with no sign that these three people have contributed to them.
The articles are often poorly printed with features such as missing characters from foreign languages, and numerous images of arrows where Wikipedia had links. It appears much better to read the original articles for free at the Wikipedia website than paying a lot of money for what has been described as a scam or hoax. Advertising for the books at Amazon and elsewhere does not reveal the free source of all the content. It is only revealed inside the books which may satisfy the license requirements for republishing of Wikipedia articles.
As an example of the "care" given to the books, the book "History of Georgia (country)" is about the European country Georgia but has a cover image of Atlanta in the American state Georgia.[nan 2] The Wikipedia article History of Georgia (country) does not make such a comical blunder.
Analytic Modeling Session proposed at the GSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 9-12 October 2011
We seek presentations about the use of analytic solutions to groundwater flow or subsurface contaminant transport, including advances or applications in the analytic element method (AEM) or LT-AEM and other analytic solutions to flow or transport problems. Abstract deadline, July 26, 2011.
Session T79. Analytic Modeling of Groundwater Flow: Advances and Applications
GSA Hydrogeology Division; Minnesota Ground Water Association; GSA Environmental and Engineering Geology Division Randal Barnes
Update: International Conference on Analytic Element Methods and More, May 14-16, 2012
The next International Conference on the Analytic Element Method has been postponed until May 14,15, 16, 2012, Minneapolis, MN. Details to follow.
Recent Publications in the AEM Wiki Bib
Gaur, Shishir, Djamel Mimoun, Didier Graillot,2011. Advantages of the analytic element method for the solution of groundwater management problems, Hydrological Processes, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8071, 11pp.
Bakker, M.,2010. Hydraulic modeling of riverbank filtration systems with curved boundaries using analytic elements and series solutions,Advances in Water Resources, 33,813-819.
Haitjema, Henk, Sergey Kuzin, Vic Kelson, Daniel Abrams, 2010. Modeling flow into horizontal wells in a Dupuit-Forchheimer model, Ground Water,48(6):878-883, November-December.
Fitts, C.R., 2010. Modeling aquifer systems with analytic elements and subdomains, Water Resour. Res., 46, W07521, doi:10.1029/2009WR008331.
Haitjema, H.M., D.T. Feinstein, R.J. Hunt, and M.A. Gusyev, 2010. A hybrid finite-difference and analytic element groundwater model, Ground Water, 48(4):538-548.
Mehnert, E., 2010. Groundwater flow modeling as a tool to understand watershed geology: Blackberry Creek watershed, Kane and Kendall Counties, Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey, Circular,576, University of Illinois, Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability, Champaign, Illinois
