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Vasyl M. Yurchuk

Юрчук Василь Миколайович

Position: Deputy Head of Department, Senior Researcher

Department: Department of Rheology

Academic degree: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

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Research profile

Research areas

  • Mechanics of materials and rheology.
  • Theory of viscoelasticity, elasticity and seismic waves.
  • Theory of linear and nonlinear waves.
  • Wavelet analysis.
  • Computer modelling of nonlinear elastic wave evolution.
Academic activity

Professional activity

Scientific activity is related to rheology, wave theory in materials, modelling of nonlinear elastic waves, and investigation of the mechanical behavior of auxetic materials.

Selected publications

Publications

Selected publications

  1. Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.N. On the Evolution of a Plane Harmonic Wave in a Nonlinear Elastic Composite Material Modeled by a Two-Phase Mixture // International Applied Mechanics. 2021. Vol. 57, No. 2. P. 172–183. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-021-01071-9.
  2. Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.N. Analogies Between the Classical Problem on the Oscillation of Bodies and the Nonclassical Problem on the Propagation of Plane Waves // International Applied Mechanics. 2021. Vol. 57, No. 4. P. 386–394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-021-01090-6.
  3. Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.N., Hryhorchuk O.M., Symchuk Ya.V. Noncharacteristic Evolution of a Nonlinear Elastic Single Cylindrical Wave // International Applied Mechanics. 2021. Vol. 57, No. 6. P. 619–634. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-022-01112-x.
  4. Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.N. Distortion of a Nonlinear Elastic Solitary Plane Wave with Friedlander Profile // International Applied Mechanics. 2022. Vol. 58, No. 4. P. 389–397. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-022-01164-z.
  5. Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.N. Computer Analysis of Slow and Fast Waves in a Composite Material // International Applied Mechanics. 2022. Vol. 58, No. 6. P. 623–633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-023-01187-0.
  6. Rushchitsky J., Yurchuk V. Comparison of Evolution of Five Types of Elastic Waves (Harmonic, Gauss, Whittaker, MacDonald, and Friedlander Initial Profiles) // Advances in Mechanics. Advanced Structured Materials. Cham: Springer, 2023. Vol. 191. P. 435–468. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37313-8_25.
  7. Kendzera O.V., Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.M. Rheological Model of Soil Layer: Determination of Its Parameters from Creep Study // International Applied Mechanics. 2023. Vol. 59, No. 4. P. 381–393. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-023-01229-7.
  8. Rushchitsky J.J., Khotenko O.O., Yurchuk V.M. Peculiarities of the Boundary Conditions in the Analysis of Nonlinear Waves for Surface and Torsional Waves as Examples // International Applied Mechanics. 2023. Vol. 59, No. 5. P. 540–554. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-024-01240-6.
  9. Yurchuk V.M. Computer Simulation of Effect of Cylinder Radius on Parameters of Torsional Nonlinear Elastic Wave // International Applied Mechanics. 2024. Vol. 60, No. 4. P. 488–493. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-024-01300-x.
  10. Akimov D.V., Hryhorchuk O.M., Dashko O.H., Rushchitsky J.J., Yurchuk V.M. Modeling of Compression-Tension Experiment on Auxetic Material Specimen // International Applied Mechanics. 2025. Vol. 61, No. 1. P. 12–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-025-01328-7.