The GEMSeminar is held weekly during the fall and spring semesters. The seminar provides students with the opportunity to present their mechanics research to fellow students and receive constructive feedback. Research topics include solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, materials science, biomechanics, etc.
If you are interested in presenting any of your research, please fill out a short survey here.
Spring 2024
Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:00 pm ERB 106
2/21: Maheshwaran Bhanugoban (Bhanu), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab
2/28: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo’s Lab
3/6: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab
3/13: Labib Shahid, Prof. Roldan-Alzate’s Lab
3/20: Cancelled
3/27: (Spring Break)
4/3: Cancelled
4/10: Paranjoy Basak, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab
4/17: Cancelled
4/24: ME-3MT
Previous Seminars
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Fall 2023
Mondays 3:30 – 4:30 pm ERB 106
9/18: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Building a safer future: Defying TBI with Architected Foams
9/25: Sudip Kunda, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Grain Boundary Plasticity and Micromorphic Continua
10/2: Ahmad Faraz Badar, Prof. Mario Trujillo’s Lab, Development of a Compressible Hybrid VoF-Lagrangian-Eulerian Solver for Spray Simulations
10/9: Akshay Kumar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s Lab, Optimization of Lattice Structures for Desired Characteristics
10/16: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Transmission Revival by Symmetry Violation in Non-Hermitian Systems
10/23: Nicholas Jaegersberg (Nico), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Geometric Scaling Rules Associated with the Microparticle Impact Testing of Materials.
10/30: Akhilesh Pedgaonkar, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Three-Dimensional Micro Mechanical Framework for Deformation Twinning.
11/6: Mainak Sarkar, Prof. Jacob Notbohm’s Lab, Investigating the Mechanics of Fiber Networks.
11/13: Haocheng Yang, Prof. Melih Eriten’s Lab, Characterization of Drying-Induced Change of Constrained Hydrogel using Vibration-Based Methods.
11/20: Hormuzd Bodhanwalla, Prof. Mario Trujillo’s Lab, The effect of one-sided confinement on nappe oscillations in free falling liquid sheet.
11/27: (Thanksgiving)
12/4: Patrick Dills, Prof. Michael Zinn’s Lab, A Hybrid Active-Passive Actuation and Control Approach for Kinesthetic Handheld Haptics.
Spring 2023
Mondays 12 – 1 pm ERB 106
2/6: Saurabh Gupta, Engine Research Center, Theoretical and Experimental Analysis in an Oscillating Grid Turbulence Tank
2/13: Abitha Dhavamani, Prof. Michael Arnold’s Lab, Photophysics of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Microcavity Polaritons
2/20: Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s Lab, Topology Optimization using Neural Networks
2/27: Sudip Kunda, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Investigation of metal plasticity near grain boundaries using micromorphic continua
3/6: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Rate independent triboelastic Payne Effect in hierarchical fibrous materials
3/13: (Spring Break)
3/20: Akhilesh Shirish Pedgaonkar, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Explicit Computational representation of Deformation Twinning in Pure Titanium
3/27: Aditya Nagaraj, Prof. Sangkee Min’s Lab, Study on Residual Stress Anisotropy During Machining of Single Crystal Ceramics
4/3: Rahul Kumar Padhy, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s Lab, Multiscale Fluid Topology Optimization
4/10: Srinath Subramanian, Prof. David Rothamer’s lab, The Future and Current Challenges Associated with Compression Ignition Direct Injection Engines
4/17: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Oscillating-Foil Turbines for Energy Harvesting
4/24: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo’s Lab, Theoretical and computational study to understand atomization of liquid sprays
Fall 2022
Wednesdays 11 – 12 pm ERB 106
9/14: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Welcome and Introductions
9/21: Prakarsh Pandey, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju’s Lab, Lattice instabilities and amorphous shear band formation in intermetallic alloys
9/28: Raymond McConnell, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza’s Lab, A Few Challenges in Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments
10/5: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Emergence of Exceptional Points in Periodic Metastructures with Hidden Parity-Time Symmetric Defects
10/12: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Improving mechanical properties through impact-induced nanostructural evolution of silver single crystals
10/19: Suk Bum Kwon (John), Prof. Sangkee Min’s Lab, Effect of crystallographic orientation on ductile-to-brittle transition in single-crystal sapphire during ultra-precision machining
10/26: Maheshwaran Bhanugoban (Bhanu), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Understanding the Coupled Compression-Shear Response in Vertically Aligned Carbon Nano Tube (VACNT) Foams
11/2: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Simulations of dynamic stall for a cross-flow turbine
11/9: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Grain Boundaries as Preferred Damage Initiation Sites
11/16: Trevor Dunt, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Spanwise Variation in Forces on a Seal Whisker Inspired Geometry at Swept Back Angles
11/23: (Thanksgiving)
11/30: Saketh Sridhara, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s Lab, DiffCat: A differentiable representation of engineering catalogs and applications
12/7: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza’s Lab, Turbulent mixing in multifluid vortex rings before & after shock interaction
Spring 2022
Wednesdays 11:30 – 12:30 pm ERB 106
2/16: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo’s Lab, Study of large-scale instabilities in liquid jet atomization
2/23: Kyle Seledic, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Nonlinearly Scalable Vibration Superabsorption in an Elastodynamic Metastructure
3/2: Drithi Shetty, Prof. Matthew S. Allen’s Lab, Improving the accuracy and computational efficiency of hysteretic models used to simulate friction
3/9: Tyler Dabney, Prof. Kumar Sridharan’s Lab, Investigation of Cold Spray Cr Coatings for Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel
3/16: (Spring Break)
3/23: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza’s Lab, Multifluid Shock-Vortex Interactions
3/30: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Thermodynamically Consistent Void-Based Damage Model
4/6: Hridyesh Raj Tewani, Prof. Pavana Prabhakar’s Lab, Additive manufacturing of flexible architected syntactic foams
4/13: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Modal analysis of dynamic stall on a cross-flow turbine blade
4/20: Dipul Chawla, Prof. Corinne Henak’s Lab, Osmolarity- and rate-dependent cartilage microfracture and failure regimes
4/27: Kunal Bhagat, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju’s Lab, High fidelity numerical modeling of dendritic solidification and microstructure evolution in metal additive manufacturing
Fall 2021
Wednesdays 12:30 – 1:30 pm Rm 175 1410 Engineering
9/22: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Welcome and Introductions
9/29: Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s Lab, Topology Optimization using Neural Networks
10/6: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza’s Lab, Vortex rings and Julia programming language
10/13: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Universal route for the emergence of exceptional points in PT-symmetric metamaterials with unfolding spectral symmetries
10/20: Debabrata Auddya, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju’s lab, Biomembranes undergo complex, non-axisymmetric deformations governed by Kirchhoff-Love kinematics and revealed by a three-dimensional computational framework
10/27: Claudio Meza-Valle, Prof. Nimish Pujara’s lab, Flow and transport in wave-induced oscillatory boundary layers over permeable beds
11/3: Melissa Schmidt-Landin, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Experimental Realization of Parity Time Symmetry in Elastodynamic Systems Using Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
11/10: Bhagyashree Prabhune, Prof. Krishnan Suresh’s lab, Tangled Finite Element Method (TFEM) for Concave Quadrilateral Elements
11/17: Richard (RJ) Hommel, Prof. Michael Graham’s lab, Constitutive modeling of dilute wormlike micelle solutions: shear-induced structure and transient dynamics
11/24: (Thanksgiving)
12/1: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Improving mechanical properties through impact-induced nanostructural evolution of initially single-crystal metals
12/8: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Vortex Dynamics and Machine Learning on Oscillating-Foil Turbines for Energy Harvesting
Spring 2021
Tuesdays 4 – 5 pm Online via Zoom
2/9: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Welcome and Introductions
2/16: Aabhas Singh, Prof. Matthew S. Allen’s Lab, Multi-Mode Quasi-Static Response OR DTF
2/23: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Thermodynamically consistent dynamic ductile damage
3/2: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran’s Lab, Characterization of materials using Synchrotron X-ray scattering
3/9: Yuhai Xiang, Prof. Stephan Rudykh’s Lab, Viscoelastic in instability
3/16: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Hydrokinetic energy and Oscillating-foil turbines
3/23: Nitesh Arora, Prof. Stephan Rudykh’s Lab, Deformation controlled negative group velocity state in soft composites
3/30: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Computations of dynamic stall in crossflow turbines
4/6: Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, Prof. Jacob Notbohm’s Lab, Role of Active Cell Forces in Controlling Collective Cell Migration
4/13: (no GEMS–Aashrith’s Ph.D. defense)
4/20: Vinay Damodaran, Prof. Pavana Prabhakar’s lab, Improving damage tolerance and resilience of composite sandwich structures through additive manufacturing
4/27: Meeting for comments and suggestions