Bodhinanda (Nanda) Chandra
Nanda is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. He previously obtained his Ph.D. in CEE on computational geomechanics advised by Prof. Kenichi Soga. Before coming to Berkeley, Nanda obtained his B.Eng in Civil Engineering from Kyushu University in Japan and M.Sc in Computational Mechanics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. His research interests are mainly related (but not limited) to the multi-phase, multi-physics, and multi-scale hydro-geomechanical coupled problems, including their mechanics, modeling, and numerical simulation using high-performance computing. He has been previously involved in research projects at several institutes and in different countries, including Japan, Germany, Spain, and Italy. Nanda was an active developer of several open-source projects, including CB-Geo MPM and Kratos-Multiphysics. In his free time, Nanda enjoys traveling, hiking, camping, and photography. He has visited more than 20 countries throughout Europe, Asia, and now America.
Research interests:
- Computational geomechanics: subsurface modeling, computational earthquake engineering, granular continuum, constitutive modeling and rheology
- Coupled problems: fluid-soil-structure interaction, contact and interface mechanics, thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling
- Natural hazards modeling: simulation of hydrological and geomechanical hazards
- Particle methods: material point method (MPM), smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), discrete element method (DEM), coupling particle methods with finite element method (FEM), element and discretization approach
- High-Performance Computing: parallel and scalable solvers, multi-scale problems