ABOUT ME
I am a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the École centrale school of Engineering, Mahindra University (previously known as mahindra École centrale), Hyderabad, India
My research is in the area of theoretical solid mechanics. Some topics are elasticity theory, dynamic fracture and friction, wave propagation, computational mechanics, high performance computing and earthquake source mechanics. I have been selected as a Senior Associate of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy for the period 1/2023 to 12/2028.
My research work is supported by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India and the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), India.
SOME RECENT RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Uni-directional pulse-type propagation of antiplane frictional slip rupture at the interface of an elastic layer and an elastic half-plane (Gupta and Ranjith, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2023)
Bi-directional crack-type propagation of antiplane frictional slip rupture at the interface of an elastic layer and an elastic half-plane (Gupta and Ranjith, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2023)
3D dynamic slip rupture propagation at an interface between identical elastic materials (Gupta and Ranjith, in preparation)
3D dynamic slip rupture propagation at an interface between dissimilar elastic materials (Gupta and Ranjith, in preparation)
Dispersion relations for in-plane slip wave as function of slip-strengthening parameter compared with observational data (Painuly, Ranjith and Gupta, under review)
Dispersion relations for antiplane slip wave as function of slip-strengthening parameter compared with observational data (Painuly, Ranjith and Gupta, under review)