Ali H. Nayfeh
Ali Hasan Nayfeh | |
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| Born | 21 December 1933 |
| Died | 27 March 2017 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | Jordanian Palestinian |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Awards | Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award (2008) Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Aerodynamics, structural dynamics, perturbation methods, nonlinear dynamics, aeroelasticity, nonlinear control, MEMS, NEMS, and chaos theory |
| Thesis | Generalized Method for Treating Singular Perturbation Problems (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Milton Van Dyke |
Ali Hasan Nayfeh (Arabic: علي نايفة) (21 December 1933 – 27 March 2017) was a Palestinian-Jordanian mathematician, mechanical engineer and physicist. He is regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering. He was the inaugural winner of the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in mechanical engineering. His pioneering work in nonlinear dynamics has been influential in the construction and maintenance of machines and structures that are common in daily life, such as ships, cranes, bridges, buildings, skyscrapers, jet engines, rocket engines, aircraft and spacecraft.