Agnes Muszyńska

Agnieszka Muszyńska (1935–2024) was a Polish-American mechanical engineer specializing in rotordynamics and the vibrations of rotating machinery.

Early life in Poland

Muszyńska was born in Warsaw on October 10, 1935. She earned a master's degree from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1960, including two years of study at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and a Ph.D. in 1966. She completed a habilitation in 1977 through the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1][2]

From 1961 to 1980, Muszyńska worked as an associate professor in the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, including two years in the mid-1970s as a visiting researcher at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in France.[2]

Emigration to US and later life

In 1980, she emigrated to the US. After working as a visiting researcher at the University of Dayton in Ohio, she took a position in 1981 as a senior research scientist for the Bently Rotor Dynamics Research Corporation in Minden, Nevada. From 1985 to 1989 she also held a part-time affiliation as an associate professor of engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.[2]

She continued to work for Bently until 1999,[1] and founded a consulting business, A. M. Consulting, in 2000.[2]

She died on March 20, 2024.[3]

Selected publications

  • Muszyńska, A. (November 1986), "Whirl and whip—Rotor/bearing stability problems", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 110 (3): 443–462, doi:10.1016/s0022-460x(86)80146-8
  • Muszynska, A.; Bently, D.E. (November 1990), "Frequency-swept rotating input perturbation techniques and identification of the fluid force models in rotor/bearing/seal systems and fluid handling machines", Journal of Sound and Vibration, 143 (1): 103–124, doi:10.1016/0022-460x(90)90571-g
  • Muszyńska, Agnes; Goldman, Paul (September 1995), "Chaotic responses of unbalanced rotor/bearing/stator systems with looseness or rubs", Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 5 (9): 1683–1704, doi:10.1016/0960-0779(94)00171-l
  • Muszyńska, Agnieszka (May 2005), Rotordynamics, CRC Press, doi:10.1201/9781420027792, ISBN 9781420027792[4]

Recognition

Muszyńska received the Gold Cross of Merit of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1975. In 1998 the president of Poland named her a professor of technical sciences, the highest-level academic degree in Poland.[2]

She was named as an ASME Fellow in 1994, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Biographical note, A.M. Consulting, retrieved 2024-05-02
  2. ^ a b c d e Prof. Agnes Muszynska, Ph.D., Poles in America Foundation, retrieved 2024-05-02
  3. ^ "Agnieszka (Agnes) Muszynska, March 20, 2024", The Record-Courier, April 10, 2024, retrieved 2024-05-02
  4. ^ Sawicki, Jerzy T. (July 2007), "Review of Rotordynamics", Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 129 (3): 888, doi:10.1115/1.2227419
  5. ^ ASME Fellows List (PDF), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014, retrieved 2024-05-02