This book is a monograph about the analytical dynamics of nonlinear rotor systems. The analytical solutions of periodic motions in nonlinear rotor systems are presented in this book. To help one understand the analytical solutions, the generalized harmonic balance method for periodic motions in polynomial nonlinear systems is briefly reviewed first, and then the semi-analytical method for periodic motions in any nonlinear systems is presented briefly too, which is also called the implicit mapping method. Such two analytical methods are employed to determine the solutions of periodic motions in nonlinear rotor systems. The analytical expressions of periodic motions to chaos for nonlinear rotor systems are presented, and the frequency-amplitude characteristics of nonlinear rotor systems are discussed. In addition, the accurate modeling of nonlinear rotors with oil films is presented, and the periodic motions of such fully nonlinear oil-film rotor systems are developed through the semi-analytical method. This book provides a better understanding of frequency-amplitude characteristics in nonlinear rotor systems. The methodology presented in this book can help one study complicated nonlinear rotor systems.

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Prof. Yeyin Xu is now an assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.

Prof. Jianzhe Huang is now an associate professor at School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Prof. Albert C. J. Luo is a distinguished research professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada, in 1995. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear mechanics, and nonlinear differential equations. He has published over 50 monographs, 20 edited books and more than 400 journal articles and conference papers in these fields. He received the Paul Simon Outstanding Scholar Award in 2008 and an ASME fellowship in 2007. He was an editor for Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation for 14 years and an associate editor for ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, and International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. He now serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and editor of various book series, including "Nonlinear Systems and Complexity" and "Nonlinear Physical Science."