DYNAMICS OF VERY HIGH DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS - Softcover

Earl H. Dowell; Deman Tang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9812384677 ISBN 13: 9789812384676

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9812384677
• ISBN 13: 9789812384676
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284