Chennakesava Kadapa
chennakesava kadapa

Dr Chennakesava Kadapa

Lecturer

  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

  • Interview panel for ERC-funded PDRA at QMUL
  • Multiphsyics Lead

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Jenkinson Research Awards Winner
  • Zienkiewicz Scholarship for PhD

 

Grant Reviewer

  • EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

 

Invited Speaker

  • UK-France Seed meeting and colloquium on Vortex-Dominated Flow Physics of Bio-Inspired Porous & Flexible Structures,
  • Computational FSI - Challenges and some recent developments
  • Advanced Computational Methods for Smart Soft Multifunctional Composites

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Board member of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics
  • Member-at-large of the ASME UK Section

 

Reviewing

  • Review for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies
  • Review for Applied Ocean Research
  • Review for International Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • Peer Reviewer for journals

 

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29 results

A novel semi-implicit scheme for elastodynamics and wave propagation in nearly and truly incompressible solids

Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2021)
A novel semi-implicit scheme for elastodynamics and wave propagation in nearly and truly incompressible solids. Acta mechanica, 232(6), 2135-2163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00707-020-02883-5
This paper presents a novel semi-implicit scheme for elastodynamics and wave propagation problems in nearly and truly incompressible material models. The proposed methodology ...

A simple extrapolated predictor for overcoming the starting and tracking issues in the arc-length method for nonlinear structural mechanics

Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2021)
A simple extrapolated predictor for overcoming the starting and tracking issues in the arc-length method for nonlinear structural mechanics. Engineering Structures, 234, Article 111755. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111755
This paper presents a simplified implementation of the arc-length method for computing the equilibrium paths of nonlinear structural mechanics problems using the finite elemen...

On the advantages of mixed formulation and higher-order elements for computational morphoelasticity

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Li, Z., Hossain, M., & Wang, J. (2021)
On the advantages of mixed formulation and higher-order elements for computational morphoelasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 148, Article 104289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104289
In this paper, we present a mixed displacement–pressure finite element formulation that can successively model compressible as well as truly incompressible behaviour in growth...

A robust and computationally efficient finite element framework for coupled electromechanics

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2020)
A robust and computationally efficient finite element framework for coupled electromechanics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 372, Article 113443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113443
Electro-active polymers (EAPs) are increasingly becoming popular materials for actuators, sensors, and energy harvesters. To simulate the complex behaviour of actuators under ...

A second-order accurate non-intrusive staggered scheme for the interaction of ultra-lightweight rigid bodies with fluid flow

Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2020)
A second-order accurate non-intrusive staggered scheme for the interaction of ultra-lightweight rigid bodies with fluid flow. Ocean Engineering, 217, Article 107940. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107940
This paper presents a staggered scheme with second-order temporal accuracy for fluid–structure interaction problems involving ultra-lightweight rigid bodies. The staggered sch...

New iterative and staggered solution schemes for incompressible fluid‐structure interaction based on Dirichlet‐Neumann coupling

Journal Article
Dettmer, S. G., Lovrić, A., Kadapa, C., & Perić, D. (2021)
New iterative and staggered solution schemes for incompressible fluid‐structure interaction based on Dirichlet‐Neumann coupling. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 122(19), 5204-5235. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6494
In the presence of strong added mass effects, partitioned solution strategies for incompressible fluid-structure interaction are known to lack robustness and computational eff...

Accurate iteration-free mixed-stabilised formulation for laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes: Applications to fluid–structure interaction

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W. G., & Perić, D. (2020)
Accurate iteration-free mixed-stabilised formulation for laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes: Applications to fluid–structure interaction. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 97, Article 103077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2020.103077
Stabilised mixed velocity–pressure formulations are one of the widely-used finite element schemes for computing the numerical solutions of laminar incompressible Navier–Stokes...

A linearized consistent mixed displacement-pressure formulation for hyperelasticity

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2022)
A linearized consistent mixed displacement-pressure formulation for hyperelasticity. Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 29(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/15376494.2020.1762952
We propose a novel mixed displacement-pressure formulation based on an energy functional that takes into account the relation between the pressure and the volumetric energy fu...

Novel unified finite element schemes for computational solid mechanics based on Bézier elements

Presentation / Conference
Kadapa, C. (2019, April)
Novel unified finite element schemes for computational solid mechanics based on Bézier elements. Paper presented at UKACM 2019, London
This work introduces a novel unified finite element framework for computational solid mechanics based on quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements that can be readi...

Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Extension to nearly incompressible implicit and explicit elastodynamics in finite strains

Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2019)
Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Extension to nearly incompressible implicit and explicit elastodynamics in finite strains. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 119(2), 75-104. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.6042
We present a novel unified finite element framework for performing computationally efficient large strain implicit and explicit elastodynamic simulations using triangular and ...

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.