Teaching

Teaching

Taught courses, for undergraduate and graduate students, on Electrodynamics, Statistical Physics, Classical Mechanics, Simple and Complex Fluids, Computational Physics and Numerical Methods, Parallel programming using OpenMP, MPI and CUDA.

A video course, on Numerical methods and programming,
with 38 lectures, is available through NPTEL and has
been viewed more than 100,000 times. Has also co-authored an NPTEL web course on the same topic.

Research Supervision

  • Supervised the doctoral thesis of 14 students.
  • Currently 3 more are working for their Ph.D.,
  • Also supervised many Master’s level and B.Tech.
  • Research projects in Physics, chemical engineering,

Publications

  • Papers in refereed international journals – 83
  • Books chapters – 4
  • Book edited : Rheology of Complex Fluids – Springer 2010

Video course

  • Video course on Numerical methods and programming
  • NPTEL course
  • 38 lectures
  • Viewed 100,000+ times
  • Co-authored an NPTEL web course on Numerical methods and programming

Ph.D.  Guidance

Ph.D. Completed  (14 students)

NameCo-GuidePh.D. Completed Year Title
K. C. Lakshmi2005Simulation Studies of Fluid Mixtures, Liquid Crystals and Membranes
P. Ranjith2005Statistical Mechanics of Semiflexible Polymers: a study of single filaments
Sanoop Ramachandran2009Coarsed-Grained Simulation Studies Of Active Fluids
Snigdha Thakur
2009Investigations On The Dynamical Properties Of Liquid Crystals And Living Polymers
 
Jayasree KCo-Guide, Prof. Suresh Govindarajan, Physics2010Equilibrium And Dynamical Properties A Single Polyelectrolyte Chain
Jasna UrbanijaJoint-Guide, Prof. Veronika Kralj-Iglic, University of Ljubljana. Solvenia2010Mediated Interactions Between Biological Membranes
Ramakrishnan N2011Effect Of In-Plane Order And Activity On Vesicular Morphology
Prathyusha K. R
 
2013Coarse-Grained Simulation Studies Of Some Externally Driven Soft Matter Systems
Ankita PandeyCo-Guide, Dr. Aditi Simha2016Hydrodynamics Of Active Systems
Sreeja K K2016Conformational changes in lipid bilayer membranes induced by active and passive inclusions: A computer simulation study
Madhusmita TripathyCo-Guide, Abhijit Deshpande, Chemical Engineering, IITM2016Coarse grained potentials for macromolecular simulations
Raj Kumar MannaCo-Guide, Prof. Ronojoy Adhikari, IMSc, Chennai2017
Dynamics of Active Polymers
Swaminath Bharadwaj
Co-Guide, Abhijit Deshpande, Chemical Engineering, IITM
2017Lower Critical Solution Temperature of Thermo-responsive Polymers.
Sachin Krishnan T V2019Shape Transformations in Active Membranes

Ph.D.  Ongoing   (Three students)

NameCo-GuideExpected year of completionTitle
Siji S Saju2022Dynamics of Active Polymers
Aathira Murali
Co-Guide, Dillip Satapathy, Physics, IITM2022Shape Morphism & Swelling Kinetics of Responsive Biopolymer Membrane
Sandeep Mathew2022Effects of inclusion mediated activity on membranes

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