Book description
Based on a successful text, this second edition presents different
concepts from dynamical systems theory and nonlinear dynamics. The
introductory text systematically introduces models and techniques and
states the relevant ranges of validity and applicability.
New to this edition:
- 3 new chapters dedicated to Maps, Bifurcations of Continuous
Systems, and Retarded Systems
Key features:
- Retarded Systems has become a topic of major importance in
several applications, in mechanics and other areas
- Provides a clear operational framework for conscious use of
concepts and tools
- Presents a rich variety of examples, including their final outcome
- For most of the examples, the results obtained with the method
of normal forms are equivalent to those obtained with other
perturbation methods, such as the method of multiple scales and
the method of averaging
- Explains and compares different applications of the considered
concepts and techniques
- Assumes knowledge of basic calculus as well as the elementary
properties of ordinary-differential equations
Ali Hasan Nayfeh received his B. S. on engineering
science and his M. S. and PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from
Stanford University. He established and served as Dean of the College
of Engineering, Yarmouk University, Jordan from 1980-1984. He is
currently University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is the Editor
of Wiley Series in Nonlinear Science and editor in Chief of Nonlinear
Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control.
Prof. Nayfeh
is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Design and Process
Science, and the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM). He holds honrary
doctorates from Marine Technical University, Russia, Technical
University of Munich, Germany, and Politechnika Szczecinsksa,
Poland.
Prof. Nayfeh received AIAA's Pendray Aerospace Literature
Award in 1995; ASME's J. P. Den Hartog Award in 1997; the Frank J.
Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education in 1997; ASME's
Lyapunov Award in 2005; the Virginia Academy of Science's Life
Achievement in Science Award in 2005; the Gold Medal of Honor from the
Academy of Trans-Disciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies in 2007;
and the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award in 2008.
