Modeling, Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems ― With Friction and Impacts

Olejnik, Awrejcewicz, and Feckan write primarily for practicing engineers and applied mathematicians who want to strengthen their knowledge in the broad areas of piecewise-smooth mechanical systems extended from the essential mathematical and numerical modeling to the control of systems with friction and impacts. Their topics include friction laws in modeling dynamical systems, the smooth approximation of discontinuous stick-slip solutions, impacts in the chaotic motion of a particle on a non-flat billiard, almost periodic solutions for jumping discontinuous systems, and controlling stochastically excited systems with an approximate discontinuity. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)