Petri T Piiroinen , Ph.D., T.Lic., M.Sc.
School of Mathematics, Statistics & Applied Mathematics
National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
Galway, Ireland

Room C304, Áras de Brún

email: petri.piiroinen@nuigalway.ie
Tel: +353-(0)91-492341, ext 2341
Fax: +353-(0)91-494525

Research Interests

Multibody system dynamics, Numerical bifurcation analysis, Piecewise smooth dynamical systems, Biomathematics.  

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Mason, J. and Piiroinen, P.T., Accessible Saddles and Grazing Bifurcations in an Impacting System, Accepted for publication in CHAOS, 2012.

Alzate, R., Piiroinen, P.T. and di Bernardo, M., From complete to incomplete chattering: a novel route to chaos in impacting cam-follower systems, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2012.

Humphries, N. and Piiroinen, P.T., A discontinuity-geometry view of the relationship between saddle-node and grazing bifurcations, Accepted for publication in Physica D, 2012.

Mason, J. and Piiroinen, P.T., Interactions between global and grazing bifurcations in an impacting system, CHAOS 21(1), article no. 013113, 2011.

Mason, J. and Piiroinen, P.T., The effect of codimension-two bifurcations on the global dynamics in a gear model, SIAM Journal of Dynamical Systems 8(4), pp. 1694-1711, 2009.

Piiroinen, P.T. and Mason, J.M., Smooth and nonsmooth tangencies in a gear model with impacts, IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) Volume 2 (PART 1) (2nd IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, CHAOS09), pp. 93-97, 2009.

Nordmark, A.B. and Piiroinen, P.T., Simulation and stability analysis of impacting systems with complete chattering, Nonlinear Dynamics 58(1), pp. 85-106, 2009.

Mason, J., Piiroinen, P.T., Wilson, R.E. and Homer, M.E., Basin of attraction in nonsmooth models of gear rattle, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 19(1), pp. 203-224,  2009.

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