Nayfeh, Ali H. : Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Ali H. Nayfeh is a University Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. Professor Nayfeh is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Nonlinear
Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control. He is the author of Perturbation Methods (Wiley, 1973), Nonlinear
Oscillations (coauthored with Dean T. Mook; Wiley,1979), Introduction to Perturbation techniques (Wiley, 1981),
Problems in Perturbation (Wiley, 1985), and Method of Normal Forms (Wiley, 1993). Professor Nayfeh's areas of interest
include nonlinear vibrations and dynamics, wave propagation, ship and submarine motions, structural dynamics, acoustics,
aerodynamic/dynamic/structure/control interactions, flight mechanics, and transition from laminar to turbulent
flows.
Balachandran, Balakumar : University of Maryland College Park
Balakumar Balachandran is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College
Park, Maryland. His areas of interest include vibration and acoustics control, nonlinear dynamics, structural dynamics,
and system identification.
Summary
A unified and coherent treatment of analytical, computational and experimental techniques of nonlinear dynamics
with numerous illustrative applications. Features a discourse on geometric concepts such as Poincare maps. Discusses
chaos, stability and bifurcation analysis for systems of differential and algebraic equations.
