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1308
National Ranking
525

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D. Michael McFarland is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Control and Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

Their research covers a range of topics predominantly in Vibration and Dynamic Analysis and Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research. Additional areas of focus include Vibration Control and Rheological Fluids, Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Recent publications by McFarland include the following:

  • Effect of grid resolution and spatial representation of NH3 emissions from fertilizer application on predictions of NH3 and PM2.5 concentrations in the United States Corn Belt, 2020, Environmental Research Communications
  • Underwater acoustic positioning with a single beacon and a varied baseline for a multi-jointed AUV in the deep ocean, 2020, IET Radar Sonar & Navigation
  • Traveling waves in tensioned Euler-Bernoulli beams with viscoelastic boundary conditions, 2025, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
  • A Nonlinear Energy Sink Design to Attenuate the Torsional Oscillations of Lightly Loaded Gear Pairs, 2022, Applied Sciences
  • Reconstruction of Acoustic Radiation of a Vibrating Structure Located in a Half-Space Bounded by a Passive Surface with Finite Acoustic Impedance, 2020, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics

McFarland collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Huancai Lu, Xiangle Cheng, Lawrence A. Bergman, Daren Zhou, and Alexander F. Vakakis. These coauthors have contributed to multiple projects and papers over time.

The scientist has published work in various academic venues, with multiple papers appearing in Applied Mathematical Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics. Other notable venues include Environmental Research Communications, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, and IET Radar Sonar & Navigation.

Best Publications

  • Complicated dynamics of a linear oscillator with a light, essentially nonlinear attachment

    Young Sup Lee;Gaetan Kerschen;Alexander F. Vakakis;Panagiotis Panagopoulos

  • Simulation of dynamics of beam structures with bolted joints using adjusted Iwan beam elements

    Y. Song;C.J. Hartwigsen;D.M. McFarland;A.F. Vakakis;A.F. Vakakis

  • Experimental study of non-linear energy pumping occurring at a single fast frequency

    D. Michael McFarland;Lawrence A. Bergman;Alexander F. Vakakis;Alexander F. Vakakis

  • Targeted energy transfers in vibro-impact oscillators for seismic mitigation

    F. Nucera;Alexander F. Vakakis;Alexander F. Vakakis;D. M. McFarland;L. A. Bergman

  • Steady State Passive Nonlinear Energy Pumping in Coupled Oscillators: Theoretical and Experimental Results

    Xiaoai Jiang;D. Michael McFarland;Lawrence A. Bergman;Alexander F. Vakakis;Alexander F. Vakakis

  • Irreversible Passive Energy Transfer in Coupled Oscillators with Essential Nonlinearity

    Gaetan Kerschen;Young Sup Lee;Alexander F. Vakakis;D. Michael McFarland

  • Suppression Aeroelastic Instability Using Broadband Passive Targeted Energy Transfers, Part 1: Theory

    Young S. Lee;Alexander F. Vakakis;Lawrence A. Bergman;D. Michael McFarland

  • Suppressing Aeroelastic Instability Using Broadband Passive Targeted Energy Transfers, Part 2: Experiments

    Young S. Lee;Gaetan Kerschen;D. Michael McFarland;W. Joel Hill

  • Periodic orbits, damped transitions and targeted energy transfers in oscillators with vibro-impact attachments

    Young S. Lee;Francesco Nucera;Alexander F. Vakakis;D. Michael McFarland

  • Passive non-linear targeted energy transfer and its applications to vibration absorption: A review

    Y. S. Lee;A. F. Vakakis;Lawrence Bergman;D. M. McFarland

  • Theoretical and experimental study of multimodal targeted energy transfer in a system of coupled oscillators

    Gaetan Kerschen;Gaetan Kerschen;Jeffrey J. Kowtko;D. Michael Mcfarland;Lawrence A. Bergman

  • Application of broadband nonlinear targeted energy transfers for seismic mitigation of a shear frame: Computational results

    F. Nucera;D. M. McFarland;Lawrence Bergman;Alexander F Vakakis;Alexander F Vakakis

  • Experimental study of non-linear effects in a typical shear lap joint configuration

    C.J. Hartwigsen;Y. Song;D.M. McFarland;L.A. Bergman

  • Analysis of Tall Buildings with Damped Outriggers

    Y. Chen;Y. Chen;D. M. McFarland;Z. Wang;B F Spencer

  • Experimental investigation of targeted energy transfers in strongly and nonlinearly coupled oscillators

    D. Michael McFarland;Gaetan Kerschen;Jeffrey J. Kowtko;Young S. Lee

  • Passive damping enhancement of a two-degree-of-freedom system through a strongly nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom attachment

    Nicholas E. Wierschem;D. Dane Quinn;Sean A. Hubbard;Mohammad A. Al-Shudeifat

  • Large-scale experimental evaluation and numerical simulation of a system of nonlinear energy sinks for seismic mitigation

    Jie Luo;Nicholas E. Wierschem;Sean A. Hubbard;Larry A. Fahnestock

  • Experimental demonstration of transient resonance capture in a system of two coupled oscillators with essential stiffness nonlinearity

    Gaëtan Kerschen;D. Michael McFarland;Jeffrey J. Kowtko;Young S. Lee

  • Asymptotic Analysis of Passive Nonlinear Suppression of Aeroelastic Instabilities of a Rigid Wing in Subsonic Flow

    O.V. Gendelman;Alexander F. Vakakis;L.A. Bergman;D. M. McFarland

  • Nonlinear system identification of frictional effects in a beam with a bolted joint connection

    Melih Eriten;Mehmet Kurt;Guanyang Luo;D. Michael McFarland

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander F. Vakakis
Alexander F. Vakakis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lawrence A. Bergman
Lawrence A. Bergman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gaëtan Kerschen
Gaëtan Kerschen University of Liège
Billie F. Spencer
Billie F. Spencer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Larry A. Fahnestock
Larry A. Fahnestock University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Oleg Gendelman
Oleg Gendelman Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Min-Feng Yu
Min-Feng Yu Georgia Institute of Technology
Leonid I. Manevitch
Leonid I. Manevitch Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics
Seok Kim
Seok Kim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Waltraud M. Kriven
Waltraud M. Kriven University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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