Brian P. Mann, Jeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Associate Professor of Energy Initiative

Office Location:	238 Hudson Hall
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2013):

• ME 541.01, INTERMEDIATE DYNAMICS Synopsis

  TBA, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

  (also cross-listed as CEE 625.01)

Education:

D.Sc. Mechanical Engineering	Washington University - St. Louis	2003
MS Mechanical Engineering	Washington University - St. Louis	1999
BS Mechanical Engineering	University of Missouri - Columbia	1996

Specialties:

Structural Engineering
Chaos, Dynamics
Nonlinear Dynamics
Adaptive Structures
Vibration
Alternative Energy
Nonlinear Systems
Manufacturing

Research Interests: Nonlinear science, vibration, energy harvesting, machining dynamics, dynamic nanoindentation

Current projects: NSF CAREER Award, NSF Fundamental Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanoindentation, ONR YIP: Broadband energy harvesting in varied and uncertain environments

Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.

Areas of Interest:

Nonlinear vibration
Nonlinear dynamics
Chaos
Vibration
Energy harvesting
Chatter
Machining dynamics

Keywords:

Nonlinear vibration • Nonlinear dynamics • Vibration • Energy harvesting • Chatter • Machining dynamics

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Adam Sneller  
• Samuel Stanton  
• Firas Khasawneh  

Recent Publications

1. Butcher, Eric A. and Mann, Brian P., Analytic Bounds for Instability Regions in Periodic Systems With Delay via Meissner's Equation, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 2012), ISSN 1555-1423 [doi]  [abs]
2. Dunnmon, J. A. and Stanton, S. C. and Mann, B. P. and Dowell, E. H., Power extraction from aeroelastic limit cycle oscillations, JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, vol. 27 no. 8 (November, 2011), pp. 1182-1198, ISSN 0889-9746 [doi]  [abs]
3. Khasawneh, Firas A. and Mann, Brian P., Stability of delay integro-differential equations using a spectral element method, MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING, vol. 54 no. 9-10 (November, 2011), pp. 2493-2503, ISSN 0895-7177 [doi]  [abs]
4. Khasawneh, Firas A. and Mann, Brian P., A spectral element approach for the stability of delay systems, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, vol. 87 no. 6 (August, 2011), pp. 566-592, ISSN 0029-5981 [doi]  [abs]
5. Mann, B. P. and Khasawneh, F. A. and Fales, R., Using information to generate derivative coordinates from noisy time series, COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION, vol. 16 no. 8 (August, 2011), pp. 2999-3004, ISSN 1007-5704 [doi]  [abs]