Chennakesava Kadapa
chennakesava kadapa

Dr Chennakesava Kadapa

Lecturer

 0131 455 4789

  C.Kadapa@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University since August 2022. Prior to joining ENU, I worked as a Lecturer at the University of Bolton (Dec-2020 to Jul-2022). I have a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Swansea University (2010-2013). I received the prestigious Zienkiewicz scholarship for my PhD at Swansea University. After my PhD, I worked as a research officer and Research Software Engineer on several industry-funded projects in computer modelling and simulation at Swansea University.

I am currently a member of the UKACM board and ASME UK Section leadership team. I am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). I taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Mechanical Engineering at Swansea and Bolton. Currently, I teach UG and PG courses at ENU.

My research work focusses on cutting-edge simulation techniques for multi-physics problems in solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction and electro-magneto-mechanics. I proposed state-of-the-art simulation frameworks for fluid-structure interaction, incompressible solid mechanics, electromechanics, magnetomechanics and morphoelasticity. My expertise also includes research software development for FEA, CFD and Multiphysics, including parallelisation for HPC. I published several single-author and first-author papers in prestigious international journals. I regularly peer-review articles for international journals in the field.

For more details about my research, please visit my lab website at
https://sites.google.com/view/comp-multiphysics-lab/home

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Multiphsyics Lead at BosonQPsi Private Limited

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest Editor: Special Issue on Advances in computational modelling of fluid-structure interaction with flexible and multibody structures

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Jason Reese Early-Career Researcher Award
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Jenkinson Research Awards (University of Bolton)
  • Zienkiewicz Scholarship for PhD

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • Panel member: EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Prioritisation Panel
  • Panel member: EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Small Grants Panel

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Grant reviewer: EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited speaker: UK-France Seed meeting and colloquium on Vortex-Dominated Flow Physics of Bio-Inspired Porous & Flexible Structures,
  • Invited speaker: Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • Invited speaker: Advanced Computational Methodologies for multiphysics problems at the interface between solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and electromagnetism
  • Invited speaker: Workshop on Fluid-Structure Interaction in Aquatic Plants
  • Invited speaker: Computational Multiphysics at the interface between Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Electromagnetism
  • Invited speaker: Computational FSI - Challenges and some recent developments
  • Invited speaker: Advanced Computational Methods for Smart Soft Multifunctional Composites

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers UK Section
  • Board member of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Member-at-large of the ASME UK Section

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Podcast invitation: CFD 4 Industry podcast

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer: Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Reviewer: Medical Engineering and Physics
  • Reviewer: Mechanics Research Communications
  • Reviewer: Neurocomputing
  • Reviewer: European Journal of Computational Mechanics
  • Reviewer: Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • Reviewer: Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology
  • Reviewer: Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
  • Reviewer: Engineering with Computers
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • Review for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies
  • Reviewer: International Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • Review for Applied Ocean Research
  • Peer Reviewer for journals

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Researcher at Dalian University of Technology, China

 

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A computational framework for quantifying blood flow dynamics across myogenically-active cerebral arterial networks

Journal Article
Coccarelli, A., Polydoros, I., Drysdale, A., Harraz, O. F., & Kadapa, C. (online)
A computational framework for quantifying blood flow dynamics across myogenically-active cerebral arterial networks. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-025-01958-3
Cerebral autoregulation plays a key physiological role by limiting blood flow changes in the face of pressure fluctuations. Although the underlying vascular cellular processes...

Coupled magneto-mechanical growth in hyperelastic materials: Surface patterns modulation and shape control in bio-inspired structures

Journal Article
Li, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Kadapa, C., Hossain, M., Yao, X., & Wang, J. (2025)
Coupled magneto-mechanical growth in hyperelastic materials: Surface patterns modulation and shape control in bio-inspired structures. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 200, Article 106089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2025.106089
Magneto-mechanical coupling in the growth of soft materials presents challenges due to the complex interactions between magnetic fields, mechanical forces, and growth-induced ...

Recent advances in magneto-active polymers: Experiments, modelling and simulations

Book Chapter
Hossain, M., Bastola, A., Moreno-Mateos, M., Gonzalez, D., & Kadapa, C. (2025)
Recent advances in magneto-active polymers: Experiments, modelling and simulations. In Constitutive Models for Rubbers XIII (25-27). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003516880-3
The last decade has witnessed the emergence of magneto-active polymers (MAPs) as one of the most advanced multi-functional soft composites. An MAP consists of a soft elastomer...

A higher-order finite element framework for hyper-visco-elastodynamics of soft multifunctional composites

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2024, April)
A higher-order finite element framework for hyper-visco-elastodynamics of soft multifunctional composites. Presented at 2024 UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, Durham
Smart multifunctional polymeric composites such as electroactive polymers, magnetoactive polymers and active hydrogels find numerous applications in soft robotics, energy harv...

Effect of pulsating flow on flow-induced vibrations of circular and square cylinders in the laminar regime

Journal Article
Wang, X., Zhang, Z., Shi, K., Zhu, X., Guo, X., Mei, Y., & Kadapa, C. (2024)
Effect of pulsating flow on flow-induced vibrations of circular and square cylinders in the laminar regime. Ocean Engineering, 301, Article 117609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.117609
Through fluid-structure interaction simulations, this study assesses the dynamic response characteristics of elastically mounted circular and square cylinders subjected to pul...

A Novel Immersed Framework of Computational Fluid Structure Interaction

Conference Proceeding
Xinyu, W., Kadapa, C., & Yue, M. (2024)
A Novel Immersed Framework of Computational Fluid Structure Interaction. In Computational and Experimental Simulations in Engineering: Proceedings of ICCES 2023 (1313-1325). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42987-3_92
The interaction between fluid and immersed solid is a nonlinear multi-physical phenomenon in science and engineering. Due to the challenges of large structural deformation, to...

Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2023, May)
Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites. Poster presented at RubberCon 2023, Edinburgh
Smart multifunctional polymeric composites such as magnetoactive polymers, electroac-tive polymers and photopolymers are increasingly being explored for various applications i...

Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2023, May)
Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites. Poster presented at RubberCon 2023, Edinburgh, UK

Advanced FE framework for magnetoactive polymers including viscoelastic and elastodynamics effects

Presentation / Conference
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2022, August)
Advanced FE framework for magnetoactive polymers including viscoelastic and elastodynamics effects. Paper presented at EUROMECH Colloquium on Mechanics of Soft Active Polymers, Southampton, United Kingdom

A comprehensive assessment of accuracy of adaptive integration of cut cells for laminar fluid-structure interaction problems

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Wang, X., & Mei, Y. (2022)
A comprehensive assessment of accuracy of adaptive integration of cut cells for laminar fluid-structure interaction problems. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 122, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2022.07.006
Finite element methods based on cut-cells are becoming increasingly popular because of their advantages over formulations based on body-fitted meshes for problems with moving ...

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Application of Artificial Intelligence in Project Management: Predictive Models for Employee Attrition using KNN, MLP, and XGBoost Algorithms as a case study.