Applied Calculus of Variations for Engineers, 2nd Edition

About the author

Dr. Louis Komzsik is a graduate of the Technical University of Budapest, and

the E¨otv¨os L´or´and University, Hungary. He has been working in the industry

for more than 40 years. He is currently the chief numerical analyst in the

Office of Architecture and Technology at Siemens PLM Software.

Dr. Komzsik is the author of the NASTRAN Numerical Methods Handbook

first published by MSC in 1987. His book, The Lanczos Method, published

by SIAM, has also been translated into Japanese, Korean, and Hungarian.

His book, Computational Techniques of Finite Element Analysis, published

by CRC Press, is in its second edition, and his Approximation Techniques for

Engineers was published by Taylor & Francis in 2006. He is also the coauthor

of the book Computational Techniques of Rotor Dynamics with the Finite El-

ement Method, published by Taylor & Francis in 2012.

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