Ali H. Nayfeh

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Ali Hasan Nayfeh (born December 21, 1933 in Tulkarm , Palestine , † March 27, 2017 in Amman , Jordan ) was an American engineer and applied mathematician .

Life

Ali H. Nayfeh studied at Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a master's degree in 1963, where he received his doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics in 1964. From 1964 to 1968 he conducted research at the Heliodyne Corporation and from 1968 to 1971 he headed the theory department at the Aerotherm Corporation. In 1971 he became a professor of mechanics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute , from 1975 as a Distinguished University Professor. From 1980 to 1984 he was dean at Yarmouk University in Jordan.

He dealt with nonlinear dynamics and chaos, ship dynamics, aeroacoustics, flight mechanics, hydrodynamic stability, nonlinear waves, control theory and dynamics of structures.

In 2008 he received the first Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, the JP Den Hartog Award in 1997 and the ASME Lyapunov Award in 2005 . He was an honorary doctor of the Technical University of Munich, in St. Petersburg and in Stettin. In 2014 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) . He was a Fellow of ASME, the American Academy of Mechanics , the American Academy of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Physical Society . In 2005 he received the Virginia Life Achievement in Science Award. In 1981 he received the Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences.

He was editor of Nonlinear Dynamics and the Journal of Vibration and Control .

Fonts

  • Perturbation Methods, Wiley-Interscience, 1973
  • with Dean T. Mook, Nonlinear Oscillations, Wiley-Interscience, 1979
  • Introduction to Perturbation Techniques, Wiley-Interscience, 1981
  • Problems in Perturbation, 1985
  • Methods of Normal Forms, Wiley-Interscience, 1993
  • with Balakumar Balachandran: Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods, Wiley-Interscience, 1995
  • Nonlinear Interactions: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods, Wiley-Interscience, 2000
  • with P. Frank Pai: Linear and Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, Wiley 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ali H. Nayfeh passed away. In: iMechanica.org. March 27, 2017, accessed March 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Life dates according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004. He was then born in Shuweikah, a village near Tulkarm, which was incorporated into 1967.
personal data
SURNAME Nayfeh, Ali H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nayfeh, Ali Hasan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and applied mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Shuweikah , Palestine
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2017
Place of death Amman , Jordan