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Yuli Starosvetsky

Yuli Starosvetsky

Education

  • 2009 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Technion-IIT
  • 2006 M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion-IIT
  • 2002 B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion-IIT

Research Interests

  • Nonlinear dynamics and vibrations, bifurcations and nonlinear waves in smooth and non-smooth, an-harmonic lattices.
  • Regular and stochastic dynamics of granular media, nonlinear wave phenomena in 1D, 2D, 3D periodic and non-periodic granular crystals, passive control of energy flow in granular meta-materials.
  • Development of nonlinear control strategies for passive and semi-active control of waves in extended nonlinear medium.
  • Wave propagation in multi-layered composite systems with ordered/disordered structural defects and discontinuities.

Guest Appointments

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations Laboratory (LNDVL), Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) (2009-2011)

Honors and Awards

  • 2010 Pnueli award for excellent Ph.D. thesis, Technion, IIT
  • 2009 Teaching Assistant Award for Academic Excellency, Technion, IIT
  • 2009 IRWIN AND JOAN JACOBS award for excellence in studies
  • 2008 Safra award for excellence in Ph. D. study
  • 2007 Aharon and Ovadia Barzani award for excellent M.Sc. thesis
  • 2007 Marie Curie Fellowship for TC1 SICON event (L’Aquila, Italy) attendance

Selected Publications

  • Y. Starosvetsky, O. V. Gendelman, ‘Strongly modulated response in forced 2DOF oscillatory system with essential mass and potential asymmetry’, Physica D, 237, 1719-1733, (2008)
  • Y. Starosvetsky, O. V. Gendelman, ‘Bifurcations of attractors in forced system with nonlinear energy sink: the effect of mass asymmetry’, Nonlinear Dynamics, 59(4), 711-731, (2010)
  • Y. Starosvetsky, O. V. Gendelman, ‘Response regimes in forced system with nonlinear energy sink: quasi-periodic and random forcing’, Nonlinear Dynamics, 64(1-2), 177-195 (2011)
  • K.R. Jayaprakash, Y. Starosvetsky, A. F. Vakakis, ‘New Family of Solitary Waves in Granular Dimer Chains with No-Precompression’, Phys. Rev. E 83(3), 036606 (2011)
  • Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Evolution of the primary pulse in one-dimensional granular crystals subject to on-site perturbations: Analytical study’, Phys. Rev. E, 85(5), 051306 (2012)
  • A. Lisyansky, D. Meimukhin, Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Primary wave transmission in the hexagonally packed, damped granular crystal with a spatially varying cross section’, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations 27, 193–205, (2015)
  • K. Vorotnikov, Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Nonlinear energy channeling in the 2D, locally resonant, unit cell model. Part I: High energy pulsations and routes to energy localization’, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25 (7), 073106 (2015)
  • K. Vorotnikov, Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Nonlinear energy channeling in the 2D, locally resonant, unit cell model. Part II: Low energy excitations and unidirectional energy transport’, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 25 (7), 073107 (2015)
  • A. Vainchtein, Y. Starosvetsky, R. Perline, J. D. Wright, ‘Solitary waves in diatomic chains’, Physical Review E, 93 (4), 042210 (2016)
  • K. Vorotnikov, Y. Starosvetsky, G. Theocharis, P. Kevrekidis, ‘Wave Propagation in a Strongly Nonlinear Locally Resonant Granular Crystal’, Physica D, 365, 27-41 (2018)
  • K. R. Jayaprakash, Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Analytical Study of the Transition Curves in the Bi-linear Mathieu Equation’, Nonlinear Dynamics (2020) 101:2615–2627, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-020-05884-0
  • K. R. Jayaprakash, V. Tandel, Y. Starosvetsky, ‘Dynamics of excited piecewise linear oscillators’, Nonlinear Dyn., 111, 5513–5532, (2023)
  • M. Gzal, V. Kislovsky, Y Starosvetsky, Analysis of the response of damped and parametrically driven, strongly anharmonic Klein-Gordon chain-Part 2: Beat – Waves, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 173, 113726, (2023)
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