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Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal

Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
99
Citations
38054
World Ranking
69
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - A.C. Eringen Medal
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States, specializing in Engineering with a focus on Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their research has extensively covered topics including Elasticity and Material Modeling, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Composite Material Mechanics, Elasticity and Wave Propagation, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities, and Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Rajagopal has contributed to a number of scientific publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  • International Journal of Engineering Science
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Notable recent papers include:

  • A thermodynamic framework for additive manufacturing, using amorphous polymers, capable of predicting residual stress, warpage and shrinkage (2020, International Journal of Engineering Science)
  • An implicit constitutive relation for describing the small strain response of porous elastic solids whose material moduli are dependent on the density (2021, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids)
  • Gibbs free energy based representation formula within the context of implicit constitutive relations for elastic solids (2020, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics)
  • A thermodynamic framework for the additive manufacturing of crystallizing polymers. Part I: A theory that accounts for phase change, shrinkage, warpage and residual stress (2022, International Journal of Engineering Science)
  • The Boussinesq flat-punch indentation problem within the context of linearized viscoelasticity (2020, International Journal of Engineering Science)

Frequent coauthors of Rajagopal include:

  • R. Bustamante
  • Hiromichi Itou
  • Victor A. Kovtunenko
  • Lorenzo Fusi
  • Josef Málek

In recognition of contributions to the field, Rajagopal received the A.C. Eringen Medal in 2004 and is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

Best Publications

  • Mechanics of Mixtures

    Kumbakonam R Rajagopal;L Tao

  • A CONSTRAINED MIXTURE MODEL FOR GROWTH AND REMODELING OF SOFT TISSUES

    J. D. Humphrey;K. R. Rajagopal

  • Fluids of differential type: Critical review and thermodynamic analysis

    J.E. Dunn;K.R. Rajagopal

  • Flow of a viscoelastic fluid over a stretching sheet

    K. R. Rajagopal;T. Y. Na;A. S. Gupta

  • Mechanical Response of Polymers: An Introduction

    Alan. S. Wineman;K. R. Rajagopal

  • Mathematical modeling of electrorheological materials

    K.R. Rajagopal;M. Ružička

  • Thermodynamics and stability of fluids of third grade

    R. L. Fosdick;K. R. Rajagopal

  • A thermodynamic frame work for rate type fluid models

    K.R. Rajagopal;A.R. Srinivasa

  • On Implicit Constitutive Theories

    Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal

  • Anomalous features in the model of “second order fluids”

    R. L. Fosdick;K. R. Rajagopal

  • Intelligent cruise control systems and traffic flow stability

    Swaroop Darbha;K.R. Rajagopal

  • A note on unsteady unidirectional flows of a non-Newtonian fluid

    K.R. Rajagopal

  • Theory of small on large: Potential utility in computations of fluid–solid interactions in arteries

    S. Baek;R.L. Gleason;K.R. Rajagopal;J.D. Humphrey

  • An exact solution for the flow of a non-newtonian fluid past an infinite porous plate

    K. R. Rajagopal;A. S. Gupta

  • ON A HIERARCHY OF APPROXIMATE MODELS FOR FLOWS OF INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS THROUGH POROUS SOLIDS

    K. R. Rajagopal

  • A Theoretical Model of Enlarging Intracranial Fusiform Aneurysms

    S. Baek;K. R. Rajagopal;J. D. Humphrey

  • On Boundary Conditions for Fluids of the Differential Type

    K. R. Rajagopal

  • Mechanics of the inelastic behavior of materials—part 1, theoretical underpinnings

    K.R. Rajagopal;A.R. Srinivasa

  • ON THE OBERBECK-BOUSSINESQ APPROXIMATION

    K.R. Rajagopal;M. Ruzicka;A.R. Srinivasa

  • On flows of granular materials

    K. Hutter;K. R. Rajagopal

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan S. Wineman
Alan S. Wineman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Josef Málek
Josef Málek Charles University
Swaroop Darbha
Swaroop Darbha Texas A&M University
Giuseppe Saccomandi
Giuseppe Saccomandi University of Perugia
Anastasia Muliana
Anastasia Muliana Texas A&M University
Mehrdad Massoudi
Mehrdad Massoudi United States Department of Energy
Dallas N. Little
Dallas N. Little Texas A&M University
Eyad Masad
Eyad Masad Hamad bin Khalifa University
James E. Moore
James E. Moore Imperial College London
Guoqian Chen
Guoqian Chen Peking University

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