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Oleg Gendelman

Oleg Gendelman

Samuel and Anne Tolkowsky Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Education

  • 2000 – Doctor of Sciences, Physics and Mathematics, from the Higher Commission of Attestation, Russian Ministry of Education, thesis name: “Investigation of Structural Defects and Localized Excitations in Polymer Crystals and Glasses by Methods of Nonlinear Dynamics”
  • 1995 – Ph.D., Physics and Mathematics, from N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS
  • 1992 – M Sc, Applied Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics

Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics, applied mathematics, nonlinear oscillations in discrete and continuous systems, nonlinear normal modes, energy transfer, vibration protection and mitigation, dynamics and transport phenomena in low-dimensional systems, and applications to polymer systems and granular materials.

Academic Appointments

  • 2015 –  now : Samuel and Anne Tolkowsky Professor,  Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 2014 – 2015: Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 2007 – 2014: Associate Professor with tenure, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 2003 – 2007: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • 2002 – 2003: Leading Research Fellow, N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Department of Polymer and Composite Materials
  • 2000 – 2002: Senior Research Fellow, N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Department of Polymer and Composite Materials
  • 1995 – 2000: Research Fellow, N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics RAS, Department of Polymer and Composite Materials
  • 1992 – 1995: Graduate student, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Books

  1. A.F.Vakakis, O.V.Gendelman, G.Kerschen, L.A.Bergman, M.D.McFarland and Y.S.Lee, Nonlinear Targeted Energy Transfer in Mechanical and Structural Systems, v.I and v.II, Springer, 2009.
  2. L.I.Manevitch and O.V.Gendelman, Tractable modes in Solid Mechanics, Springer, 2011

Invited review

  1. O.V.Gendelman, Targeted Energy Transfer in Systems with external and self – excitation, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, invited review, v. 225, 2007-2043, 2011 – Paper awarded Water Arbitration Prize, 2012

Papers

  1. O.V.Gendelman, L.I.Manevitch New model of plastic deformation of disordered systems. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, v.5, 1633-1642, 1993
  2. O.V.Gendelman, L.I.Manevitch, A model of plastic deformation and localized vibration modes in 3D glass, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, v.7, .6993-7004, 1995
  3. O.V.Gendelman and A.V.Savin, Normal heat conductivity of the one-dimensional lattice with periodic potential of nearest-neighbor interaction, Phys. Rev. Letters, v. 84, 2381-2384, 2000
  4.  O.V.Gendelman Transition of Energy to a Nonlinear Localized Mode in a Highly Asymmetric System of Two Oscillators, Nonlinear Dynamics, v.25, 237-253, 2001
  5. O.V.Gendelman, A.F.Vakakis, L.I.Manevitch, R. McCloskey, Energy Pumping in Nonlinear Mechanical Oscillators I: Dynamics of the Underlying Hamiltonian System, Journal of Applied Mechanics – Transactions of the ASME, v.68, 34-41, 2001
  6. A.F.Vakakis and O.V.Gendelman, Energy Pumping in Nonlinear Mechanical Oscillators II: Resonance Capture, Journal of Applied Mechanics – transactions of ASME, v.68, 42-48, 2001
  7. V.V.Ginzburg, O.V.Gendelman and L.I.Manevitch, Simple “Kink” Model of Melt Intercalation in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites, Physical Review Letters, v.86, 5073-5075, 2001
  8. N.K. Balabaev, O.V.Gendelman and L.I.Manevitch, Supersonic Motion of Vacancies in a Polyethylene Crystal, Physical Review E, v.64, 036702 (1-8), 2001
  9. A. V. Savin and O. V. Gendelman, Heat conduction in one-dimensional lattices with on-site potential, Physical Review E, v.67, 041205, 2003
  10. O.V.Gendelman, L.I.Manevitch, O.L. Manevitch, Solitonic Mechanism of Structural Transition in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites, Journal of Chemical Physics, v.119, 1066-1069, 2003
  11. O.V.Gendelman and A.V.Savin, Heat Conduction in a One-Dimensional chain of Hard Discs with Substrate Potential, Physical Review Letters, v.92, 074301, 2004
  12. O.V.Gendelman, Bifurcations of Nonlinear Normal Modes of Linear Oscillator with Strongly Nonlinear Damped Attachment, Nonlinear Dynamics, v.37, 115-128, ‏2004.
  13. E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, O. Stanevsky, Y. Bormashenko, S. Tamir, R. Cohen, M. Nunberg, V.-Z. Gaisin, M. Gorelik, O.V.Gendelman, Mesoscopic and submicroscopic patterning in thin polymer films: impact of the solvent, Materials Letters, v. 59, 2461-2464, 2005
  14. E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, O. Stanevsky, Y. Bormashenko, O. Gendelman, Formation of honeycomb patterns in evaporated polymer solutions: Influence of the molecular weight, Materials Letters, v. 59, 3553 – 3557, 2005
  15. E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, O. Stanevsky, Y. Bormashenko, T. Stein, O.V. Gendelman, Mesoscopic patterning in evaporated polymer solutions: new experimental data and physical mechanisms, Langmuir, v.21, 9604-9609, 2005
  16. A. Arinstein, M. Burman, O. Gendelman, and E. Zussman, Effect of supramolecular structure on polymer nanofibre elasticity, Nature Nanotechnology, v.2, 59-62, 2007
  17. O.V.Gendelman, Y. Starosvetsky and M.Feldman, Attractors of Harmonically Forced Linear Oscillator with Attached Nonlinear Energy Sink I: Description of Response Regimes, Nonlinear Dynamics, v. 51, 31-46, 2008
  18. Y. Starosvetsky and O.V.Gendelman, Attractors of Harmonically Forced Linear Oscillator with Attached Nonlinear Energy Sink II: Optimization of a Nonlinear Vibration Absorber, Nonlinear Dynamics, v. 51, 47-57, 2008
  19. O.V.Gendelman, Nonlinear Normal Modes in Homogeneous System with Time Delays, Nonlinear Dynamics, v.52, 367-376, 2008
  20. O.V.Gendelman, Targeted Energy Transfer in Systems with Non-polynomial Nonlinearity, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v.315, 732-745, 2008
  21. Y. Starosvetsky and O.V.Gendelman, Strongly modulated response in forced 2DOF oscillatory system with essential mass and potential asymmetry, Physica D, v. 237, 1719-1733, 2008
  22.  O.V.Gendelman and L.I.Manevitch, Discrete breathers in vibroimpact chains: analytic solutions, Physical Review E, v.78, 026609, 2008
  23. L.I.Manevitch and O.V.Gendelman, Oscillatory models of vibro – impact type for essentially nonlinear systems, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, v.222, 2007 – 2043, 2008
  24. Y. Starosvetsky and O.V.Gendelman, Vibration absorption in systems with a nonlinear energy sink: nonlinear damping, Journal of Sound and Vibration, v. 324, 916-939, 2009
  25. O.V.Gendelman and T.Bar, Bifurcations of Self – Excitation Regimes in Van der Pol Oscillator with a Nonlinear Energy Sink, Physica D, v.239, 220-229, 2010
  26. O.V. Gendelman , A.F. Vakakis , L.A. Bergman , D.M. McFarland, Asymptotic Analysis of Passive Nonlinear Suppression of Aeroelastic Instabilities of a Rigid Wing in Subsonic Flow, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, v.70, 1655-1677, 2010
  27. O.V.Gendelman and A.V.Savin, Nonstationary heat conduction in one-dimensional chains with conserved momentum, Physical Review E, Rapid Communication, v. 81, 020103(R), 2010
  28. Y. Starosvetsky and O.V.Gendelman, Bifurcations of attractors in forced system with nonlinear energy sink: effect of mass asymmetry, Nonlinear Dynamics, v.59, 711-731, 2010
  29. E.Bormashenko, Y.Bormashenko and O.V.Gendelman, On the Nature of the Friction between Non-Stick Droplets and Solid Substrates, Langmuir, v.26, 12479-12482, 2010
  30. O.V.Gendelman, T.Sapsis, A.F.Vakakis and L.Bergman, Enhanced passive targeted energy transfer in strongly nonlinear mechanical oscillators, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Rapid Communication, v. 330, 1-8, 2011
  31. E. Bormashenko, Y. Bormashenko, R.Pogreb and O.V.Gendelman, Janus Droplets: Liquid Marbles Coated with Dielectric/Semiconductor Particles, Langmuir Letter, v.27, 7-10, 2011.
  32. B.M.Gendelman, O.V.Gendelman, R. Pogreb and E.Bormashenko, The potential comb improves the efficiency of low-frequency energy harvesting, Jourrnal of Applied Physics, v.109, 114512, 2011
  33. O.V.Gendelman, G. Sigalov, L.I.Manevitch, M.Mane, A.F.Vakakis, L.A.Bergman, Dynamics of an eccentric rotational nonlinear energy sink, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions of the ASME, v. 79, 011012, 1-9, 2012
  34. O.V.Gendelman, R.Shvartsman, B.Madar and A.V.Savin, Non – stationary Heat Conduction in Models with On-site Potential, Physical Review E, v. 85, 011105, 1-8, 2012
  35. I.Grinberg, V.Lanton and O.V.Gendelman, Response Regimes in Linear Oscillator with 2DOF Nonlinear Energy Sink under Periodic Forcing, Nonlinear Dynamics, v. 69, 1889-1902, 2012
  36. G. Sigalov, O. V. Gendelman, M. A. AL-Shudeifat, L. I. Manevitch, A. F. Vakakis and L. A. Bergman, Alternation of regular and chaotic dynamics in a simple two-degree-of-freedom system with nonlinear inertial coupling, Chaos, v.22, 03318, 1-10, 2012
  37. G. Sigalov, O. V. Gendelman, M. A. AL-Shudeifat, L. I. Manevitch, A. F. Vakakis and L. A. Bergman, Resonance captures and targeted energy transfers in an inertially-coupled rotational nonlinear energy sink, Nonlinear Dynamics, v.69, 1693-1704, 2012
  38. E. Bormashenko, R. Pogreb, R. Balter, O.V. Gendelman and D. Aurbach, Composite non-stick droplets and their actuation with electric field, Applied Physics Letters, v.100, 151601, 1-4, 2012
  39. O.V.Gendelman, Analytic treatment of a system with a vibro-impact nonlinear energy sink, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Rapid Communication, v.331, 4599-4608, 2012
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