Faculty
Education:
Professional Experience:
Students Supervised:
Doctor of Philosophy
- Maruti MUDUNURU, August 2015
- Mohammad SHABOUEI, August 2016
- Saeid KARIMI, December 2016
- Can Xu, May 2017
- Justin CHANG, May 2017
- Seyedeh Hanie Seyed Joodat, August 2018 [Co-advised with Dr. Roberto Ballarini]
Master of Science (M.S.) with thesis
- Abhineeth AKKASALE, May 2011
- Maruti MUDUNURU, May 2011
- Priyanka GOTIKA, December 2011
- Justin CHANG, May 2013
- Nischal MAPAKSHI, August 2017
COURSES TAUGHT
- CIVE 2330: Statics (SP17, SP18 [two sections])
- CIVE 2332: Mechanics of Solids (FA11, SP13, SP14, SP16)
- CIVE 7336: Finite Element Methods (SP12, SP15, SP17) [Course website]
- CIVE 7397: Computational Mechanics* (FA12, FA14, FA16, FA18) [Course website]
- CIVE 7397: Mechanics of Porous Media* (FA13, FA15, FA17) [Course website]
- CIVE 6111: Graduate Seminar Series (FA13, FA18)
(* Developed a new graduate-level course.)
COURSES TAUGHT AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS
- Statics & Particle Dynamics
- Engineering Analysis for Mechanical Engineers
- Finite Element Method
- Nonlinear Finite Element Method
Research Interests:
Nakshatrala's general research interest includes mathematical formulation and analysis, and development of computational techniques for problems in structural, solid, and fluid mechanics. His current research interests include degradation/healing of man-made and natural materials, and heterogeneous porous media (both flow and structural aspects).
Nakshatrala's application areas include degradation/healing of civil and aerospace structures and materials, geosciences (contaminant transport, carbon-dioxide sequestration, enhanced oil recovery) and bio-mechanics. The research goal is to develop relevant mechanics, numerical techniques, and mathematical tools to model and study various (steady state and transient) multiscale phenomena. Specific research topics of interest include:
Geomechanics
- Flow and transport in deformable porous media
- Constitutive modeling of geomaterials
- Fracturable porous media
Computational Mechanics
- Multiscale and stabilized finite elements
- Coupled problems, structure-structure interaction, fluid-structure interaction
- Numerical homogenization and upscaling techniques
- Numerical optimization and sensitivity analysis
- Applications and numerical techniques for differential-algebraic equations (DAEs)
Continuum Physics
- Modeling degradation / healing of materials and structures
- Nonlinear continuum mechanics
- Thermomechanical constitutive modeling & Implicit constitutive modeling
- Theory of interacting continua
Applied Mathematics and High Performance Computing
- Partial Differential Equations (More of a spectator)
- Maximum Principles
- Applied Optimization
- Parallel Computing