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Sensitivity analysis of the eigenvalue problem for general dynamic systems with application to bridge deck flutter Piotr Omenzetter Abstract The mathematical models governing the dynamics of various engineering systems, such as airplane wings and bridge decks subjected to aerodynamic forces, mechanical and civil structures interacting with fluid or soil, or systems with time delays, yield transcendental eigenvalue problems. In this work, a general transcendental eigenvalue problem is first formulated and a biorthogonality relationship between eigenvectors is derived. Then, the sensitivities of eigenvalues and eigenvectors with respect to a system parameter are obtained. The method is employed to analyze in detail a transcendental eigenvalue problem arising in the analysis of a bridge deck subjected to aerodynamic forces. The sensitivities of eigenvalues and eigenvectors are successfully used to improve the performance of an iterative method used for solving the eigenvalue problem. CE database subject headings: Aerodynamics, Bridges, Dynamics, Eigenvalue problem, Eigenvalues, Flutter, Modal analysis, Sensitivity analysis Introduction Understanding the dynamics of a physical system often requires the solution of an eigenvalue problem or modal analysis. In many studies of dynamic systems, only inertia, viscous damping, gyroscopic, stiffness and circulatory forces are of importance (Meirovitch 1990), and such systems can be modeled using linear, time invariant equations of motion. More generally, a broader class of dynamic systems may be described with linear, time invariant state space formulations. The corresponding eigenvalue problems are of the form of matrix linear or quadratic polynomials in the eigenvalue, for which well-established and efficient solution techniques exist. The physics of some systems are, however, such that although the governing equations of motion remain linear and time invariant, the eigenvalue problem is no longer in the form of a polynomi