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University Distinguished Professor

113-A Burruss Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540/231-5453
anayfeh@vt.edu

http://www.esm.vt.edu/~anayfeh/

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Interests:

Aerodynamics, perturbation methods, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, ship and submarine motions

Education:

1964	Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
1963	M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
1962	B.S., Engineering Science, Stanford University

Honors & Awards:

2008	The Academy Gold Medal of Honor from The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies
2008	AMD/ASME Tom Caughey Award, first recipient of newly instituted award
2005	ASME Lyapunov Award, first recipient of newly established and prestigious award. (Presented for lifelong contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics.)
2005	Virginia Life Achievement in Science Award
2004	Honorary Doctorate, Politechnika Szczecinska, Poland
2004	Plenary Lecture: Nonlinear Normal Modes of Large Systems with Inertial Nonlinearities, EUROMECH 457 Colloquium, French Riviera, June 7-9
2004	Plenary Lecture: A Smart Controller for Cranes. International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, Technical University of Szczecin, Poland, August 30-September 2
2003	Plenary Lecture: Nonlinear Dynamics Phenomena and Applications, Workshop on Vibrations, Sound and Acoustics for Automotive Industries, Aguascalientes, Mexico, December 4-5
2003	Plenary Lecture: with Z. N. Masoud and N. A. Nayfeh, A Delayed-Position Feedback Controller for Cranes, IUTAM Symposium on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems and Processes in Mechanics, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy, June 8-13
2002	Plenary Lecture: Nonlinear Dynamics: Phenomena and Applications, The 7th National Congress on Mechanics, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 18-21
2002	Plenary Lecture: Nonlinear Dynamics: Phenomena and Applications, International Conference on Mathematics Trends and Developments, Cairo, Egypt, December 28-31
2001	with S. K. Mazumder and D. Borojevic, A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Fast- and Slow-Scale Instabilities of a DC-DC Converter, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2001, pp. 201-216. WINNER OF THE IEEE POWER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS PRIZE PAPER AWARD FOR 2001.
2001	Invited Lecture: Predictive Tools for Nonlinear Structural Dynamical Systems, 2001 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New York, NY, November 11-16
2001	Plenary Lecture: Can the Mechanical Engineer Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, 18th Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise, Pittsburgh, PA, September 9-12
2000	Plenary Lecture: with Z. Masoud, Control of Crane-Cargo Pendulation, 3rd World Conference on Structural Control, Como, Italy, April 7-12
2000	Plenary Lecture: Transfer of Energy from High-Frequency to Low-Frequency Modes, Conference on Mathematics and the 21st Century, Cairo, Egypt, January 15-20
2000	Invited Lecture: On the Discretization of Spatially Continuous Systems with Quadratic and Cubic Nonlinearities, SECTAM XX, Pine Mt., GA, April 16-18
1999	Honorary Doctorate, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
1999	Plenary Lecture: Ship-Mounted Cranes, International Conference on Monitoring and Control of Marine and Harbour Structures, Genoa, Italy, June 1-4
1999	Distinguished Lecture: The Engineer Grapples with Nonlinear Phenomena, 1991 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Nashville, TN, November 14-19
1998	College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research
1997	Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education
1997	ASME J. P. Den Hartog Award (presented in recognition of lifetime contributions to the teaching and practice of vibration engineering)
1997	Invited Lecture: with S. S. Oueini, Experimental Implementation of Saturation Control, IUTAM Symposium on Interaction Between Dynamics and Control in Advanced Mechanical Systems, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 21-26
1997	Distinguished Lecture: Can the Design Engineer Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, Penn State, University Park, PA, April 17
1996	Fellow - Society for Design and Process Science
1996	Plenary Lecture: On the Discretization of Weakly Nonlinear Spatially Continuous Systems, Fourth Workshop on Differential Equations and Chaos, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 11-12
1996	Plenary Lecture: Can Nonlinearities be Ignored?, Fourth Workshop on Differential Equations and Chaos, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 11-12
1996	Plenary Lecture: Transfer of Energy from High-Frequency to Low-Frequency Modes, SES 33rd Annual Technical Meeting, Tempe, AZ, October 22-23
1995	AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (for seminal contributions to perturbation methods, nonlinear dynamics, acoustics, and boundary-layer transition; praiseworthy for their quality relevance, timeliness, and lasting influence on the aerospace community)
1995	-present Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Vibration and Control
1995	Can the Design Engineer Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, The First World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology, Austin, TX, December 7-9,
1995	Society for Design and Process Science, Founding Board Member, Austin, TX, December 6-9
1994	Plenary Lecture: Can the Practicing Engineer Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, First Industry/University Symposium on Research for Future Supersonic and Hypersonic Vehicles, Greensboro, NC, December 4-6
1994	Plenary Lecture: Can the Practicing Engineer Afford to Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tokyo, Japan, March 30
1994	Plenary Lecture: Can the Design Engineer Ignore Nonlinear Phenomena, Second Biennial European Joint Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, London, England, July 4-7
1992	-present Editor, Nonlinear Science Book Series, Wiley
1992	Plenary Lecture: Modal Interactions in the Nonlinear Response of Dynamic and Structural Systems, Workshop on Bifurcation and Chaos in Mechanical Systems, L'Aquila, Italy, May 19-20
1991	Fellow - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
1991	Fellow - American Society of Mechanical Engineering
1990	-present Editor-in-Chief, Nonlinear Dynamics Journal
1988	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Award, Germany
1988	-1990 Contributing Editor - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
1988	Invited Lecture: Numerical-Perturbation Methods in Mechanics, Symposium on Advances and Trends in Computational Structural Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC, October 17-19
1987	Invited Lecture: Nonlinear Stability of Boundary Layers, AIAA 25th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV, January 12-15
1987	Invited Lecture: On Triple-Deck Structure, The R. T. Davis Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Cincinnati, OH, June 17
1987	Plenary Lecture: Can the Practicing Engineer Afford to be Ignorant of Nonlinear Phenomena?, Second Technical Workshop on Dynamics and Aeroelastic Stability Modeling of Rotorcraft Systems, Boca Raton, FL, November 18-20
1987	Invited Lecture: Can the Practicing Engineer Afford to Be Ignorant of Nonlinear Phenomena?, Electrical Engineering Seminar, VPI&SU, Blacksburg, VA, May 22
1986	Fellow - American Academy of Mechanics
1985	Invited Lecture: Perturbation Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics, in Nonlinear Dynamics Aspects of Particle Accelerators, Lecture Notes in Physics, No. 247, Sardinia, Italy
1985	Invited Lecture: Perturbation Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics, a series of three invited lectures, Joint US/CERN School on Particle Accelerators, Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy, January 31-February 5
1982	Yarmouk University Research Award
1981	State of Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences (Physics)
1981	Invited Lecture: The Method of Multiple Scales and Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators, Second Conference of the Union of Arab Physicists and Mathematicians, Amman, Jordan, May 4-7
1980	-1983 Society of Engineering Science Certificate of Appreciation in Recognition of Outstanding Service to the Society, Member, Board of Directors
1979	Invited Lecture: Three-Dimensional Stability of Growing Boundary Layers, IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition, Stuttgart, West Germany, September 16-22
1979	Invited Lecture: Stability of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers, 17th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 15-17
1979	Short course: Linear and Nonlinear Stability of Boundary Layers, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, October 10-19
1978	Invited Lecture: The Relation Between Temporal and Spatial Stability in Three-Dimensional Flows, AIAA 11th Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Conference, Seattle, WA, July 10-12
1976	Election to the Academy of Teaching Excellence
1976	Named University Distinguished Professor of Engineering
1976	Invited Lecture: Numerical-Perturbation Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics, 2nd International Conference on Numerical Methods in Geomechanics, VPI& SU, Blacksburg, VA, June
1975	Listed in Outstanding Educators of America
1975	Fellow - American Physical Society
1962	Third Annual Stanford School of Engineering Scholastic Prize

Recent Publications:

1. Ali H. Nayfeh and P. Frank Pai, Linear and Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, Wiley Interscience, 2004
2. Ali H. Nayfeh, Nonlinear Interactions, Wiley, 2000
3. Ali H. Nayfeh and Bala Balachandran, Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, Wiley Interscience, 1995

CoursesTaught:

ESM 5754	Intro Perturbations	Fall 2009
ESM 5414	Nonlinear Systems	Spring 2009
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Spring 2008
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Spring 2008
ESM 5754	Intro Perturbations	Fall 2007
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Fall 2007
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Fall 2007
ESM 5414	Nonlinear Systems	Spring 2007
ESM 5994	Research and Thesis	Spring 2007
ESM 7994	Research and Dissertation	Spring 2007
ESM 5754	Intro Perturbations	Fall 2005
ESM 5414	Nonlinear Systems	Spring 2005
ESM 5754	Intro Perturbations	Fall 2004
ESM 6754	Perturbation Methods	Spring 2004
ESM 5754	Intro Perturbations	Fall 2003