Dynamics of Very High Dimensional Systems - Hardcover

H Dowell, Earl; Tang, Deman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812384669 ISBN 13: 9789812384669

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Many books on dynamics start with a discussion of systems with one or two degrees of freedom and then turn to the generalization to the case of many degrees of freedom. For linear systems, the concept of eigenfunctions provides a compact and elegant method for decomposing the dynamics of a high dimensional system into a series of independent single-degree-of-freedom dynamical systems. Yet, when the system has a very high dimension, the determination of the eigenfunctions may be a distinct challenge, and when the dynamical system is nonconservative and/or nonlinear, the whole notion of uncoupled eigenmodes requires nontrivial extensions of classical methods. These issues constitute the subject of this book.

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Graduate students, academics and researchers (government and industry) in aerospace engineering, engineering mechanics and mechanical engineering.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9812384669
• ISBN 13: 9789812384669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 284