Louis Komzsik

Aeronautical engineers Vollas and Komzsik have worked in many companies designing rotors that blow wind or that wind turns, and have cooperated on several projects over the past quarter century. From that collaboration, they explain how to apply modern analysis tools such as finite elements to the rotational behavior of flexible bodies, especially those with irregular shapes like propeller and turbine blades. Covering in turn theoretical aspects and engineering aspects, they examine such topics as coupled solution formulations, the finite element analysis of rotating structures, resonances and instabilities, dynamic response analysis, analyzing aircraft propellers, and analyzing wind turbines. Annotation �穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)