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Dr. Harish visited and presented at the seminar in the Department of Applied Mathematics in Cardiff University.

We look forward to welcome three new Ph.D. students in the coming year: Amir and Shubha. Congratulations to Shubha on the PGRTA scholarship. In addition to research, Shubha will be bringing her experience from her assistant professor days to also contribute to the teaching at Manchester. I am looking forward to working with you all.

Ms. Luo recently presented an invited talk at the CoSec conference in Manchester (UK). Her talk was titled "Digital wave flume using multi-fidelity approaches".

Dr. Harish recently presented an invited talk titled "Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications" at the Department of Physics seminar in University of Miami (USA).

Dr. Harish recently presented an invited talk titled "Building stable tensegrities for engineering applications" at the Department of Civil Engineering Structures seminar in the University of Cambridge (UK).

Dr. Harish recently presented an invited talk titled "Concurrent multiscale modelling of textiles" at A-Star (Singapore).

Dr. Harish recently presented an invited talk titled "Data-driven methods for real-time 3D reconstruction of flow in abdominal aorta" at the Department of Applied Mathematics seminar in the University of Bristol (UK).

I would like to welcome new Ph.D. students to the group: Vijay, Nojus and Lucas. Congratulations to Vijay for securing the very competitive Dean's scholarship.

Congratulations to Aan, Kaid, Laura, and Seohee for successfully completing their year exam.

Dr. Harish recently presented an invited talk titled "Solid and fluid mechanics for cardiovascular engineering" at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Science in the University of Cambridge (UK).

We would like to welcome our first postdoc, Dr. Sampad Sengupta. Sam finished his Ph.D. at Imperial college where he worked extensively on the fluid-structure interaction of aorta. He will be working on the development of ML techniques for CFD modelling of the carotid.

Dr. Harish recently presented an conference talk titled "Semi-supervised learning of nonlinear superposition principle for hydrodynamics" at the UK Coastal Research Conference held in the University of Plymouth (UK).

Xiaoyuan Luo recently presented her work titled "Supervised learning of hydrodynamic loading on structures" at the ECCOMMAS UNCECOMP 2023 conference in Athens, Greece on 15th May 2023.

Along with the international team at the University of Manchester, Dr. Harish will be visiting India to extend our collaborations with Indian academia (IISc, JNCASR) and industry (Infosys, Reliance). Alongside these, Dr. Harish will also be meeting prospective students who have been given offers to attend the university of Manchester. He will look forward to answer their questions about the University of Manchester and our engineering program.

Our first journal paper titled "Mathematics of Stable Tensegrity Structures" is published and available online at the Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics (JTCAM). The paper can be found at: https://jtcam.episciences.org/11288. JTCAM is a Diamond open-access journal aiming to make the papers available for open-access at free of cost for both authors and readers.

Our first conference paper titled "Supervised learning of nonlinear superposition principle for hydrodynamic loading on structures" (ID: U19674) has been accepted for presentation at the 5th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Science and Engineering (UNCECOMP) to be held in Athens (Greece) between 12 - 14 June (2023).  Our work will be presented in the mini-symposium 6 on "Surrogate modelling and data-driven approaches for uncertainty quantification". Please do join, we are happy to answer any questions. 

I would like to welcome new Ph.D. student, Aan Yudianto who will be bringing his experience of teaching and research to enhance our work on multi-fidelity modelling in automotive aerodynamics.

We are happy to have been allocated computing facilities on the UK national computing facilities - Archer2, Cirrus and Bede. We have been access to both CPU and GPU resources to enhance our computing work. We are super excited to use these resources.

Dr. Ajay B Harish will be spending Nov and Dec (2022) in India to work on the collaboration with Jawarharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bengaluru (India). During this time, he would also be offering a course on Solid Mechanics - I aimed at first and second year Masters' students.

Very happy to share the acceptance of our paper titled "Mathematics of Stable Tensegrity Structures" in the Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics (JTCAM). JTCAM is a Diamond open-access journal aiming to make the papers available for open-access at free of cost for both authors and readers.

I would like to welcome new Ph.D. students: Kaid Robinson and Seohee Jang. Kaid will be developing multi-fidelity techniques applied to enhancing the aerodynamic simulation of cyclists; Seohee will be developing physics driven ML aimed at high-speed flows.

I would like to welcome our first Ph.D. student, Xiaoyuan Luo (Laura). She will be working on deep learning techniques related to fluid-structure interaction.

I would like to welcome our interns: Nojus Zidonis and Jakub Zemek. They were selected from a competitive process for the School of Engineering internship at the University of Manchester. They will be learning on machine learning techniques related for applications in fluid-structure interaction.

I would like to welcome one of the first members of our team - Vijay Nandurdikar! As a remote intern, Vijay will be working on various facets of machine learning and continuum mechanics.

Check out an available Ph.D. vacancy in my lab. The project aims to develop novel deep learning techniques for fluid-structure interaction problems related to hydrodynamics.

I have officially started as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester (UK)

Just finished the two-day tool training for the HydroUQ software. The materials will be available for download soon.

Paper on multiphysics modeling of hydrogels titled "Constitutive modeling of pH-sensitive hydrogel: Multi-physics coupling of electromagnetics with mechanics and thermodynamics" accepted for publication in Mechanics of Materials.

Check out my upcoming webinar on May 3rd (2021) at Mechanical Engineering in IIT Kanpur. I will be talking about my work on Contact Mechanics.

Check my recent paper Mathematics of Stable Tensegrity Structures. The pre-print of the paper is available on arXiv and under review at the Journal of Theoretical, Computational and Applied Mechanics.

Just gave my talk in the EASF Forum during the Episode 11 of Season 3!

Check my recent paper Automated 3D solid reconstruction from 2D CAD using OpenCV pre-print on arXiv

I have been selected as a reviewer and evaluator for the SMART scholarship program of the Department of Defense (DoD)

I will be attending the CISM school on Advanced Topics in Computational Mechanics to be held on 07-10 Dec 2020. I am very excited about it!

I have contributed to three chapters in the technical report on tsunami, storm-surge, and CFD for water in the State-of-Art Report in Computational Modeling and Simulation (2021)

Paper on soft materials titled "Usability of finite elements based on an absolute nodal coordinate formulation for deformation analysis of the Achilles tendon" accepted for publication in International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics.

Check out my upcoming book chapter titled "A Poroelastic Element for FEAP Using AceGen" in the Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics, Springer (2021). The book chapter is a dedication to Prof. Peter Wriggers for his 70th birthday Festschrift. The codes are available for download on Github.

Educational application "CFD Notebooks" aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students who intend to learn OpenFOAM released. Check out and download from our SimCenter website.

My paper on self-contact and titled "A study of contact methods in the application of large deformation dynamics in self-contact beam" has been accepted for publication in Nonlinear Dynamics.

My paper on beam contact titled "Procedure for non-smooth contact for planar flexible beams with cone complementarity problem" has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics.

Ajay B Harish starts as a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. He will be teaching the course "CE126: Engineering Dynamics and Vibrations" in Fall 2020.

The beta version of my software for modeling coastal hazards, i.e. the Hydro-UQ application is now available for test users

Ajay B Harish joins SimCenter at UC Berkeley as a Post-doc. Check out my work on SimCenter Website.

Ajay B Harish joins SimCenter at UC Berkeley as a Post-doc. Check out my work on SimCenter Website.

My paper on the constitutive modeling of soft tissues titled "A finite element for soft tissue deformation based on the absolute nodal coordinate formulation" has been accepted for publication in Acta Mechanica.