Computational Physics and Mechanics Lab at Vanderbilt University, lead by Prof. Ravindra Duddu, focuses on simulating fracture and phase interface evolution.

Joined August 2021
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📢New paper! Our latest paper, highlighted paper in The Cryosphere, brings a new paradigm to glaciology, revealing for the first time the important role that viscous strains can play in ice-sheet fractures. This is achieved with a new two-scale model. See: tc.copernicus.org/articles/1…
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Can the phase field fracture model with just two free parameters (blind) predict the load-displacement path and crack trajectory in three point bending experiments. We say yes, in our latest paper sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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8 Apr 2024
"While nursing home industry leaders plead poverty to fight a proposed staffing standard, private equity owners are funneling cash into their affiliated real estate and management firms. levernews.com/where-nursing-…" This is what it takes to accumulate vast amounts of private wealth.
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There is no positive side to adapting a technology without developing proper infrastructure!
Saw this EV at the charging station on the highway being charged on a diesel generator. We buy EVs, charge them on fossil fuels and then try to make a statement "I have gone green, I drive a EV."
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True that!
I suspect many AI projects will end up in ruin because its developers are just muddling around getting their dopamine hits from the deluge of micro-events about AI. They focus only on the trees but can't see the forest!
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23 Jan 2024
A new book chapter review I co-wrote with @mmobasher_csm on computational modeling of ice mechanics from engineering and glaciology perspectives. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Look forward the community feedback.

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9 Jan 2024
Me after I release course grades via Brightspace.
Going to the poster session without a name tag
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6 Jan 2024
Excited to be delivering the inaugural webinar. Please join to learn more about our collaborative work (with @MechMaterials and Alexander Huth at NOAA on simulating hydraulic fracture in glaciers and ice shelves.
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12 Dec 2018
Material point method for damage mechanics does snow in movies and ice shelves! Alexander Huth #AGU18 #cryosphere @AGU_Cryo
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26 Dec 2023
When you publish two Nature papers with only your graduate students in two days?
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26 Dec 2023
@ProfRausch your take on this, sir.
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Let’s be real, shall we? A PhD obviously increases your earning potential. Denying it just sounds like privilege
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23 Nov 2023
Heartbroken to hear that a dear friend and colleague @RogueChrisB passed away last week. Chris, you will be remembered forever through your impactful papers on ice damage. Rest in peace, dear friend.
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It is a part of a special issue on "Computational Modeling of Ice Sheets and Glaciers" that includes other great contributions from @GatorGlaciology @BrinkerhoffDoug @CpmlVandy
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20 Oct 2023
Glad to be selected as one of the 12 NSF funded projects to advance open and equitable research in the geosciences new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-funds-1…

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27 Sep 2023
For the first time I crossed 40 journal publications this month, and this is how my word cloud looks. Note to myself - do not include "using" in my paper titles henceforth.
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21 Sep 2023
NEW PAPER ALERT cambridge.org/core/journals/… We simulated the final two years of rift propagation leading to #A68 iceberg #calving in 2017 from #LarsenC ice shelf. Rift path can change with varying ice mélange conditions and the extent of contact between rift flanks. #Antarctica
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This paper has been in the works for several years through the lead author Alex Huth's journey from a graduate student at UW to postdoc at Princeton to now staff scientist at NOAA. A great milestone.
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