Engineering System Dynamics: A Unified Graph-Centered Approach, Second Edition

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1059 pages
• Published by: CRC
• Edition: 2nd Edition August 15, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0849396484
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849396489
• Book Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.5 x 2.4 inches
• Weighs: 4.4 pounds

Product Review
…a state-of-the-art reference text…presents the most recent approaches to design-motivated modeling and analysis.
-IASI Polytechnic Magazine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
For today's students, learning to model the dynamics of complex systems is increasingly important across nearly all engineering disciplines. First published in 2001, Forbes T. Brown's Engineering System Dynamics: A Unified Graph-Centered Approach introduced students to a unique and highly successful approach to modeling system dynamics using bond graphs. Updated with nearly one-third new material, this second edition expands this approach to an even broader range of topics. What's New in the Second Edition? In addition to new material, this edition was restructured to build students' competence in traditional linear mathematical methods before they have gone too far into the modeling that still plays a pivotal role. New topics include magnetic circuits and motors including simulation with magnetic hysteresis; extensive new material on the modeling, analysis, and simulation of distributed-parameter systems; kinetic energy in thermodynamic systems; and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods. MATLAB® figures prominently in this edition as well, with code available for download from the Internet. This code includes simulations for problems that appear in the later chapters as well as code for selected thermodynamic substances. Using a step-by-step pedagogy accompanied by abundant examples, graphs, illustrations, case studies, guided exercises, and homework problems, Engineering System Dynamics: A Unified Graph-Centered Approach, Second Edition is a text that students will embrace and continue to use well into their careers. While the first half of the book is ideal for junior-level undergraduates, the entire contents are suited for more advanced students.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Engineering System Dynamics (Control Engineering) (Hardcover) I have used this text for 2 years as part of the author's engineering systems's courses at Lehigh University. I think it is an outstanding pedagogical approach to energy-based modeling. While the focus is on Bond Graph methodology,the author stresses the art of applying fundamental insight and intuition to the modeling process. An attentive reader can develop a logical and simple, yet powerful, framework for modeling a wide variety of engineering eystems. Now that I am in graduate school, I think that the mindset I developed from this text gives me a unique advantage. There are many interesting dynamic modeling problems, including aircraft carrier landings, eardrum vibrations and even MEMS to name a few. In most cases, extracting the differential equations governing the dynamic behavior becomes a very direct procedure, following the construction of the bond graph models.