Sudhakar E. Nair
Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechnaical and Aerospace Engineering
Ph.D., University of California at San Diego

Research Interests:

Solid Mechanics, Elastic and Inelastic Behavior of Materials, Applied Mathematics, Moving Boundary Problems, Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Media.

Selected Publications:

• Wavelet-Galerkin Method for the Free Vibrations of an Elastic Cable, with M.  Al-Qassab, ASCE J. Engineering Mechanics. Vol. 129, No.3, pp. 350-357,  2003. 
• Wavelet-Galerkin Method for the Free Vibrations of an Elastic Cable Carrying an Attached Mass, with M.  Al-Qassab, to appear in J. Sound and Vibration.
• Solidification of a Finite Medium Subject to a Periodic Variation of Boundary Temperature, with Z. Dursunkaya, J. Appl. Mech., Vol. 70, No. 5, pp. 633-637, 2003.
• A Crack Driving Force Criterion for the Prediction of Interface Crack Kinking in Thin-film Composites,  with M. Gosz and A. F. Okyar,  J. Interface Science, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 329-338 , 2003.
• Dynamics of an Elastic Cable Carrying a Moving Mass Particle, with  M. Al-Qassab and J. O'Leary, Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 33 No. 1, pp. 11-32, 2003.
• Cooled Mirror for a Double Undulator Beam Line, with Y. Li, A. Khounsary, and J. Maser, SPIE.