Electromechanical and Systems Engineering -- Preface -- Committees -- Sponsors -- Table of Contents -- Chapter 1: Fluid Mechanics -- Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Turbulent Liquid Film Flowing down a Vertical Surface -- Study of Flow over a Step Cylinder -- Experimental Study of Water Filtering Using Textiles as in Traditional Methods -- Laminar Flow through a Rectangular Horizontal Channel with Asymmetrical Contraction -- Influence of the Alignment of Two Airfoils in the Losses Generation -- Chapter 2: Heat Transfer -- Inverse Heat Transfer Using Levenberg-Marquardt and Particle Swarm Optimization Methods for Heat Source Estimation -- Effect of Maximum Temperature and Heating-Cooling Repeated Cycles on Thermal Contact Resistance of a Composite Tube -- Chapter 3: Biomechanics and Design of Mechanisms -- Pneumatic Artificial Mini-Muscles Conception: Medical Robotics Applications -- Synthesis Optimization of Planar Mechanisms -- Resolution of a 3 RRR Planar Parallel Mechanism -- Synthesis of 4C Mechanism for Generation of a Dual Mathematic Function -- Trajectory Generation of Robot Manipulators Using an Artificial Potential Function and Genetic Algorithms -- Chapter 4: Mechanical Vibrations -- Stress and Vibration Analysis of a Lathe Bed Made of Aluminum-Copper Alloy for High Speed Machining -- Model Derivation and Numerical Simulation for a Pivoted Rigid Rotor-Bearing System -- Algorithm for Estimating Natural Frequencies and Mode Shapes of Cantilever MEMS Microbeams -- Chapter 5: Testing Materials -- Tensile Strength of Fibers Extracted from the Leaves of the angustifolia Haw Agave in Function of their Length -- Assessment of the Crack Compliance Method and the Introduction of Residual Stresses by Shot Peening Using the Finite Element Method -- Chapter 6: Fractal Analysis -- Fractal Analysis of the Solar Radiation in Mexico City.

Fractal Analysis of Tissue Biocompatible Neuroreservoir -- Fractal Analysis of EEG Signals in the Brain of Epileptic Rats, with and without Biocompatible Implanted Neuroreservoirs -- Chapter 7: Numerical Analysis -- Parametric Analysis of Perfect Matched Layer Model of Finite Difference Time Domain Method -- Keywords Index -- Authors Index.