Dhrubajyoti Mukherjee, M.Sc.

Research Interests

• Statistical Mechanics
• Discrete shell models
• Mechanics of membranes
• Geometrically exact beam elements
• Polymer networks
• Multiphysics methods

Supervised student projects / theses

• Simulation of biopolymer networks with geometrically exact Kirchhoff beam elements, Daniel Paukner, 2015

Education & Research

• 2014, M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
• 2013 - present , research associate, TUM, Germany
• 2012-13, Hoomes Rich Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, USA
• 2012, M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics, Swansea University, U.K.
• 2010, M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, India

Publications

  Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Mukherjee D., Rao B. N., and Prasad A. M., Global Sensitivity Analysis of Unreinforced Masonry Structure Using High Dimensional Model Representation, Engineering Structures 33, 1316-1325, Elsevier Ltd, 2011

 Conference Proceedings 

• Mukherjee D., Meier C., Müller K. W. and Wall W. A., Modeling of cross-linkers in biopolymer networks based on geometrically exact beam formulations, Proceedings of 3^rd ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference, Aachen, Germany, July 20–23, 2015
• Mukherjee D., Müller K. W., Meier C. and Wall W. A., An Approach for The Micro-Mechanical Simulation of Biopolymer Networks Based on Geometrically Exact Beam Elements, Proceedings of 11^th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Barcelona, Spain, July 20–25, 2014
• Mukherjee D.,Graham-Brady L., A Local Finite Element Formulation for Transient Analysis of Strain-Softening Solids, Proceedings of 12^th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Raleigh, North Carolina, July 22-25, 2013
• Mukherjee D., Lee C. H., Gil A. J., Bonet J. and Aguirre M., On Alternative Numerical Frameworks for a New Conservation Law Formulation in Structural Dynamics, Proceedings of 8^th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Graz University of Technology, Austria, July 9-13, 2012
• Mukherjee D., Gil A. J., and Bonet J., Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin Solution of Lagrangian Explicit Dynamic Solid Mechanics", Proceedings of 20^th UK Conference of ACME, University of Manchester, March 27-28, 2012

Honors & Awards

• Erasmus Mundus Fellowship, European Commission (2014)
• Hoomes Rich Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (2012)
• Best M.S. thesis in Structural Engineering, IIT Madras (2011)
• Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, European Commission (2010)
• Commonwealth Scholarship, University of Cambridge (declined)
• D. Phil. Studentship, University of Oxford (declined)