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D-Index
48
Citations
8516
World Ranking
1298
National Ranking
23

Sundararajan Natarajan publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sundararajan Natarajan sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 331 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Sundararajan Natarajan D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sundararajan Natarajan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sundararajan Natarajan is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of engineering, particularly in the mechanics of materials and computational mechanics.

Their scholarly work spans several specialized subfields including:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering

Sundararajan Natarajan has contributed extensively to topics within engineering, especially concentrating on:

  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Fatigue and fracture mechanics
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods

The scientist has published notable papers, with several recent examples illustrating a range of applications and computational approaches:

  • Multi-frequency acoustic topology optimization of sound-absorption materials with isogeometric boundary element methods accelerated by frequency-decoupling and model order reduction techniques, 2022, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • A CT image-driven computational framework for investigating complex 3D fracture in mesoscale concrete, 2023, Cement and Concrete Composites
  • Adaptive phase field method using novel physics based refinement criteria, 2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • An explicit methodology of random fibre modelling for FRC fracture using non-conforming meshes and cohesive interface elements, 2023, Composite Structures
  • Analysis of sandwich structures with corrugated and spiderweb-inspired cores for aerospace applications, 2022, Thin-Walled Structures

Their research has appeared frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics
  • Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Ean Tat Ooi
  • Tiantang Yu
  • Hirshikesh
  • Chongmin Song
  • Dibyendu Adak

Best Publications

  • NURBS-based finite element analysis of functionally graded plates: Static bending, vibration, buckling and flutter

    Navid Valizadeh;Sundararajan Natarajan;Octavio A. Gonzalez-Estrada;Timon Rabczuk

  • Strain smoothing in FEM and XFEM

    Stéphane P. A. Bordas;Timon Rabczuk;Nguyen-Xuan Hung;Vinh Phu Nguyen

  • Size-dependent free flexural vibration behavior of functionally graded nanoplates

    S. Natarajan;S. Chakraborty;M. Thangavel;Stephane Pierre Alain Bordas

  • Bending and vibration of functionally graded material sandwich plates using an accurate theory

    S. Natarajan;Ganapathi Manickam

  • Numerical integration over arbitrary polygonal domains based on Schwarz–Christoffel conformal mapping

    Sundararajan Natarajan;Stéphane Bordas;D. Roy Mahapatra

  • An adaptive singular ES-FEM for mechanics problems with singular field of arbitrary order

    H. Nguyen-Xuan;H. Nguyen-Xuan;G. R. Liu;S. Bordas;Sundararajan Natarajan

  • Phase field modelling of crack propagation in functionally graded materials

    Hirshikesh;Sundararajan Natarajan;Ratna K. Annabattula;Emilio Martínez-Pañeda

  • Application of higher-order structural theory to bending and free vibration analysis of sandwich plates with CNT reinforced composite facesheets

    Sundararajan Natarajan;Mohamed Haboussi;Ganapathi Manickam

  • A review of the scaled boundary finite element method for two-dimensional linear elastic fracture mechanics

    Chongmin Song;Ean Tat Ooi;Sundararajan Natarajan

  • On the performance of strain smoothing for quadratic and enriched finite element approximations (XFEM/GFEM/PUFEM)

    Stéphane P. A. Bordas;Stéphane P. A. Bordas;Sundararajan Natarajan;Pierre Kerfriden;Pierre Kerfriden;Charles Edward Augarde

  • Natural frequencies of cracked functionally graded material plates by the extended finite element method

    Sundararajan Natarajan;P.M. Baiz;Stephane Pierre Alain Bordas;T. Rabczuk

  • Integrating strong and weak discontinuities without integration subcells and example applications in an XFEM/GFEM framework

    Sundararajan Natarajan;D. Roy Mahapatra;Stéphane P. A. Bordas

  • Adaptation of quadtree meshes in the scaled boundary finite element method for crack propagation modelling

    Eantat Ooi;Hou Man;Sundararajan Natarajan;Chongmin Song

  • An experimental/numerical investigation into the main driving force for crack propagation in uni-directional fibre-reinforced composite laminae

    L. M. A. Cahill;S. Natarajan;Stephane Pierre Alain Bordas;R. M. O'Higgins

  • Adaptive phase-field modeling of brittle fracture using the scaled boundary finite element method

    Hirshikesh;A.L.N. Pramod;R.K. Annabattula;E.T. Ooi

  • Linear smoothed polygonal and polyhedral finite elements

    Amrita Francis;Alejandro Ortiz-Bernardin;Stéphane P A Bordas;Stéphane P A Bordas;Stéphane P A Bordas;Sundararajan Natarajan

  • Isogeometric analysis enhanced by the scaled boundary finite element method

    Sundararajan Natarajan;JunChao Wang;Chongmin Song;Carolin Birk

  • Convergence and accuracy of displacement based finite element formulations over arbitrary polygons: Laplace interpolants, strain smoothing and scaled boundary polygon formulation

    Sundararajan Natarajan;Ean Tat Ooi;Irene Chiong;Chongmin Song

  • Adaptive phase field method for quasi-static brittle fracture using a recovery based error indicator and quadtree decomposition

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  • Dynamic instability analysis of sandwich plates with CNT reinforced facesheets

    A. Sankar;S. Natarajan;M. Ganapathi

  • Multi-frequency acoustic topology optimization of sound-absorption materials with isogeometric boundary element methods accelerated by frequency-decoupling and model order reduction techniques

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  • Modeling crack propagation in variable stiffness composite laminates using the phase field method

    Hirshikesh;Sundararajan Natarajan;Ratna Kumar Annabattula

  • On the approximation in the smoothed finite element method (SFEM)

    Stéphane P. A. Bordas;Sundararajan Natarajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Bordas
Stéphane Bordas University of Luxembourg
Chongmin Song
Chongmin Song University of New South Wales
Timon Rabczuk
Timon Rabczuk Bauhaus University, Weimar
António J.M. Ferreira
António J.M. Ferreira University of Porto
M. Ganapathi
M. Ganapathi Vellore Institute of Technology University
Hung Nguyen-Xuan
Hung Nguyen-Xuan Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
D. Roy Mahapatra
D. Roy Mahapatra Indian Institute of Science
Erasmo Carrera
Erasmo Carrera Polytechnic University of Turin
Pierre Kerfriden
Pierre Kerfriden Cardiff University
Yang Xia
Yang Xia Zhejiang University of Technology

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