Mohsen Azimi

Mohsen Azimi

Assistant Professor

Office: 219 Carpenter Hall
Email: azimi@me.msstate.edu
Phone: 662.325.1959

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Education

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, 2022

Experience Record

  • Assistant Professor, Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2023-Present
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2022-2023
  • Mechanical Engineer Intern, Ridgetop Group, Inc., 2018-2021

Subject Areas Taught

  • Control system design
  • Mechanical vibrations
  • Mechatronics systems
  • Dynamics of machinery

Research Overview

  • Rigid Multi-Body Fluid-Structure Interactions (RMB-FSI), Multi-Physics System of Systems (SoS), Computational Multibody 2D/3D Dynamic Systems, Lumped Parameter Modeling, and 2D/3D Mechanism Design, with application to floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) with horizontal or vertical axes, bladeless wind turbines (BWT), and wave energy convertors (WEC).
  • Nonlinear Dynamic, Bifurcation, Chaos Theory, Mechanical Vibrations in Linear/Nonlinear Discreet/Continuous Systems, with application to vibration absorption, nonlinear energy sink, energy harvesting in rotating systems, MEMS and NEMS resonator design, and health monitoring and damage detection of rotating machinery.
  • Nonlinear Adaptive/Robust Control Systems Design, Digital Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, and Automation, with application to autonomous systems, under actuated systems, quadcopters, legged robots, bio-inspired robots, and rehabilitation robots.
  • Perturbation Analysis of Nonlinear Time-Periodic System of Coupled Differential Equations with application to self-excited and parametrically excited systems, gyroscopic systems, nonholonomic systems, and elastic structures exposed to nonconservative forces.

Selected Publications

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Journal Articles

  • Mohsen Azimi, “Pitchfork and Hopf Bifurcation of Geared Systems with Nonlinear Suspension in Permanent Contact Regime” Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer Netherlands. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-07110-x
  • Mohsen Azimi, “Parametric Stability of Geared Systems with Linear Suspension in Permanent Contact Regime” Nonlinear Dynamics. Springer Netherlands. doi: 10.1007/s11071-021-06943-w.
  • Mohsen Azimi, “Parametric Frequency Analysis of Mathieu-Duffing Equation,” International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, vol. 31, no. 12, 2021, doi:10.1142/S0218127421501819.
  • Mohsen Azimi, and M.R. Hairi Yazdi, “Energy Dissipation Rate Control and Parallel Equations Solving Method for Planar Spined Quadruped Bouncing Robot,” Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (JMST), vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 875–884, 2017.


Conference Papers/Presentations

  • Mohsen Azimi, and M.R. Hairi Yazdi, “Energy Dissipation Rate Control for Planar Quadruped Bouncing Robot Based on the Property of Passive Dynamic Walking,” The 2nd RSI International Conference on Robotics & Mechatronics (ICRoM), Tehran, October 15-17, 2014.

Awards and Honors

  • Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona, Spring 2021