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

  • Jenkinson Research Awards Winner
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • 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 International Journal of Chemical Engineering
  • Review for Applied Ocean Research
  • Peer Reviewer for journals

 

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29 results

Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Applications to linear nearly incompressible elastostatics and implicit and explicit elastodynamics

Journal Article
Kadapa, C. (2019)
Novel quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements using existing mesh generators: Applications to linear nearly incompressible elastostatics and implicit and explicit elastodynamics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 117(5), 543-573. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5967
In this paper, we present novel techniques of using quadratic Bézier triangular and tetrahedral elements for elastostatic and implicit/explicit elastodynamic simulations invol...

A new family of projection schemes for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with control of high-frequency damping

Journal Article
Lovrić, A., Dettmer, W. G., Kadapa, C., & Perić, D. (2018)
A new family of projection schemes for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with control of high-frequency damping. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 339, 160-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.05.006
A simple spatially discrete model problem consisting of mass points and dash-pots is presented which allows for the assessment of the properties of different projection scheme...

A stabilised immersed framework on hierarchical b-spline grids for fluid-flexible structure interaction with solid–solid contact

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2018)
A stabilised immersed framework on hierarchical b-spline grids for fluid-flexible structure interaction with solid–solid contact. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 335, 472-489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2018.02.021
We present a robust and efficient stabilised immersed framework for fluid–structure interaction involving incompressible fluid flow and flexible structures undergoing large de...

On the advantages of using the first-order generalised-alpha scheme for structural dynamic problems

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2017)
On the advantages of using the first-order generalised-alpha scheme for structural dynamic problems. Computers and Structures, 193, 226-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.08.013
The advantages of using the generalised-alpha scheme for first-order systems for computing the numerical solutions of second-order equations encountered in structural dynamics...

A stabilised immersed boundary method on hierarchical b-spline grids for fluid–rigid body interaction with solid–solid contact

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2017)
A stabilised immersed boundary method on hierarchical b-spline grids for fluid–rigid body interaction with solid–solid contact. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 318, 242-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2017.01.024
An accurate, efficient and robust numerical scheme is presented for the simulation of the interaction between flexibly-supported rigid bodies and incompressible fluid flow wit...

A stabilised immersed boundary method on hierarchical b-spline grids

Journal Article
Dettmer, W., Kadapa, C., & Perić, D. (2016)
A stabilised immersed boundary method on hierarchical b-spline grids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 311, 415-437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.08.027
In this work, an immersed boundary finite element method is proposed which is based on a hierarchically refined cartesian b-spline grid and employs the non-symmetric and penal...

Subdivision based mixed methods for isogeometric analysis of linear and nonlinear nearly incompressible materials

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2016)
Subdivision based mixed methods for isogeometric analysis of linear and nonlinear nearly incompressible materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 305, 241-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2016.03.013
This paper addresses the use of isogeometric analysis to solve solid mechanics problems involving nearly incompressible materials. The present work is focused on extension of ...

A fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multiplier based fluid–structure interaction scheme with hierarchical B-Spline grids

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2016)
A fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multiplier based fluid–structure interaction scheme with hierarchical B-Spline grids. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 301, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2015.12.023
We present a numerical scheme for fluid–structure interaction based on hierarchical B-Spline grids and fictitious domain/distributed Lagrange multipliers. The incompressible N...

NURBS based least-squares finite element methods for fluid and solid mechanics

Journal Article
Kadapa, C., Dettmer, W., & Perić, D. (2015)
NURBS based least-squares finite element methods for fluid and solid mechanics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 101(7), 521-539. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.4765
This contribution investigates the performance of a least-squares finite element method based on non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS) basis functions. The least-squares func...

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.