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)