Dr. Kalyana Nakshatrala, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Cullen College of Engineering, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
FACULTY WEBSITERESEARCH WEBSITE
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Areas of expertise
- Modeling of flow and reactive transport
- Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
- Geological carbon-dioxide sequestration
- Modeling seepage of contaminants
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Awards
- Teaching Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, 2015.
- New Faculty Award, University of Houston, 2012.
- TAMU Student-Led Award for Teaching Excellence (SLATE), Texas A&M University, 2009. [Awarded to less than 10 faculty members each semester in the whole college of engineering, Texas A&M University.]
- Adviser of Maruti Mudunuru, Melosh Award, given to the best paper in computational mechanics, 2015.
- In top 2% (out of over 100,000 students) in the entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, 1996.
- Secured a rank of 197 out of over 100,000 students all over India in Roorkee Entrance Examination, 1996.
- Received a merit certificate from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India, for being among the top 0.1% in Mathematics nationwide, 1996
More information in research website above.
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Publications
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J. Chang*, K.B. Nakshatrala,M. G. Knepley and L. Johnsson, “A performance spectrum for parallel computational frameworks that solve PDEs," Accepted in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2017. [arXiv link]
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S. Karimi*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “A hybrid multi-time-step framework for pore-scale and continuum-scale modeling of solute transport in porous media," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 323: 98-131, 2017. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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J. Chang*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “Variational inequality approach to enforcing the non-negative constraint for advection-diffusion equations," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 320: 287-334, 2017. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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J. Chang*, S. Karra, and K.B. Nakshatrala, "Large-scale optimization-based non-negative computational framework for diffusion equations: Parallel implementation and performance studies,” Journal of Scientific Computing, 70: 243-271, 2017. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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M.K. Mudunuru*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “On mesh restrictions to satisfy comparison principles, maximum principles, and the non-negative constraint: Recent developments and new results," Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 24: 556-590, 2017. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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J. Chang*, K.B. Nakshatrala, and J.N. Reddy, “Modification to Darcy-Forchheimer model due to pressure-dependent viscosity: Consequences and numerical solutions," Journal of Porous Media, 20: 263-285, 2017. [Journal link]
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C. Xu*, M.K. Mudunuru*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “Material degradation due to moisture and temperature. Part 1: Mathematical model, analysis, and analytical solutions," Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 28:1847-1885, 2016. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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M. Shabouei*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “Mechanics-based solution verification for porous media models,” Communications in Computational Physics, 20:1127-1162, 2016. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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S. Karimi*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “Do current lattice Boltzmann methods for diffusion-type equations respect the maximum principle and the non-negative constraint?," Communications in Computational Physics, 20:374-404, 2016. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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M.K. Mudunuru*, and K.B. Nakshatrala, “On enforcing maximum principles and achieving element-wise species balance for advection-diffusion-reaction equations under the finite element method," Journal of Computational Physics, 305:448-493, 2016. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
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K.B. Nakshatrala, H. Nagarajan, and M. Shabouei*, “A numerical methodology for enforcing maximum principles and the non-negative constraint for transient diffusion equations," Communications in Computational Physics, 19: 53-93, 2016. [Journal link] [arXiv link]
More publications in research website above.
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Patents
- None available.
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Grants and Funded Research
- None available.
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Curriculum Vitae
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Contact information