Department of Aerospace Engineering | Indian Institute Of Technology Madras , Chennai
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Pradeep Kumar Seshadri

Assistant Professor

PhD Aerospace Engineering

MTech Aerospace Engineering

BE Aeronautical Engineering

+91-44-2257-4046

pkseshadri@iitm.ac.in

Room 138, Department of Aerospace Engineering

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  • In-house Hydrocodes & All-Speed Multiphase Flow Solvers, Multi-material Dynamics; Energetic Materials; Data Driven Modeling

  1. A physics-aware deep learning model for shear band formation around collapsing pores in shocked reactive materials

    Author: Cheng, Xinlun and Chen, Bingzhe and Choi, Joseph and Nguyen, Yen T and Seshadri, Pradeep and Verma, Mayank and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

    Journal: Journal of applied physics

    Volume: 138

    Year: 2025

  2. Physics-aware recurrent convolutional neural networks for modeling multiphase compressible flows

    Author: Cheng, Xinlun and Nguyen, Phong CH and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Verma, Mayank and Gray, Zo{\"e} J and Beerman, Jack T and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen S

    Journal: International Journal of Multiphase Flow

    Volume: 177

    Page: 104877

    Year: 2024

  3. Johnson--Cook yield functions for cyclotetramethylene-tetranitramine (HMX) and cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX) derived from single crystal plasticity models

    Author: Sen, Oishik and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Rai, Nirmal Kumar and Larentzos, James and Brennan, John and Sewell, Tommy and Picu, Catalin R and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of applied physics

    Volume: 135

    Year: 2024

  4. PARC: Physics-aware recurrent convolutional neural networks to assimilate meso scale reactive mechanics of energetic materials

    Author: Nguyen, Phong CH and Nguyen, Yen-Thi and Choi, Joseph B and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen S

    Journal: Science advances

    Volume: 9

    Page: eadd6868

    Year: 2023

  5. Physically evocative meso-informed sub-grid source term for energy localization in shocked heterogeneous energetic materials

    Author: Nguyen, Yen T and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of applied physics

    Volume: 134

    Year: 2023

  6. A Physics-Aware Deep Learning Model for Energy Localization in Multiscale Shock-To-Detonation Simulations of Heterogeneous Energetic Materials

    Author: Nguyen, Phong C H and Nguyen, Yen-Thi and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Choi, Joseph B and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

    Journal: Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics

    Volume: 48

    Page: e202200268

    Year: 2023

  7. Interface-resolved reactive simulations of initiation through flyer impact on HMX crystal--binder aggregates

    Author: Roy, Shobhan

    Journal: Bulletin of the American Physical Society

    Volume: 68

    Year: 2023

  8. Leading edge vortex dynamics in airfoils: Effect of pitching motion at large amplitudes

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Aravind, Akhil and De, Ashoke

    Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures

    Volume: 116

    Page: 103796

    Year: 2023

  9. Multi-scale modeling of shock initiation of a pressed energetic material I: The effect of void shapes on energy localization

    Author: Nguyen, Yen and Seshadri, Pradeep and Sen, Oishik and Hardin, D Barrett and Molek, Christopher D and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of Applied Physics

    Volume: 131

    Year: 2022

  10. Multi-scale modeling of shock initiation of a pressed energetic material. II. Effect of void--void interactions on energy localization

    Author: Nguyen, Yen T and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Sen, Oishik and Hardin, David B and Molek, Christopher D and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of applied physics

    Volume: 131

    Year: 2022

  11. Meso-scale simulation of energetic materials. II. Establishing structure--property linkages using synthetic microstructures

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep K and Nguyen, Yen T and Sen, Oishik and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of Applied Physics

    Volume: 131

    Year: 2022

  12. Meso-scale simulation of energetic materials. II. Establishing structure--property linkages using synthetic microstructures

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep K and Nguyen, Yen T and Sen, Oishik and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: Journal of Applied Physics

    Volume: 131

    Year: 2022

  13. A robust sharp interface based immersed boundary framework for moving body problems with applications to laminar incompressible flows

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and De, Ashoke

    Journal: Computers \& Mathematics with Applications

    Volume: 83

    Page: 24--56

    Year: 2021

  14. Flow past stationary and oscillating airfoil at a low Reynolds number using sharp interface immersed-boundary approach

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and De, Ashoke

    Journal: Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

    Volume: 27

    Year: 2020

  15. Investigation of shock wave interactions involving stationary and moving wedges

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and De, Ashoke

    Journal: Physics of Fluids

    Volume: 32

    Year: 2020

  16. A novel sharp interface immersed boundary framework for viscous flow simulations at arbitrary Mach number involving complex and moving boundaries

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and De, Ashoke

    Journal: Computers \& Fluids

    Volume: 206

    Page: 104579

    Year: 2020

  17. Assessment of pressure reconstruction schemes in sharp interface immersed boundary method

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and De, Ashoke

    Volume: 1978

    Page: 030002

    Year: 2018

  18. Investigation of flow field of clap and fling motion using immersed boundary coupled lattice Boltzmann method

    Author: Kumar, S Pradeep and De, Ashoke and Das, Debopam

    Journal: Journal of Fluids and Structures

    Volume: 57

    Page: 247--263

    Year: 2015

  19. Clap and Fling Simulation Using Immersed Boundary Coupled Lattice Boltzmann Method

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar

    Year: 2013

  20. Latent Representation Learning of Multi-scale Thermophysics: Application to Dynamics in Shocked Porous Energetic Material

    Author: Azarfar, Shahab and Choi, Joseph B and Nguyen, Phong CH and Nguyen, Yen T and Seshadri, Pradeep and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

    Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.12996

  21. A Physics-Aware Deep Learning Model for Energy Localization in Multiscale Shock-To-Detonation Simulations of Heterogeneous Energetic Materials

    Author: Nguyen, Phong C H and Nguyen, Yen-Thi and Seshadri, Pradeep K and Choi, Joseph B and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

    Journal: Propellants, explosives, pyrotechnics

    Volume: 48

    Page: e202200268

  22. Propellants Explos

    Author: Nguyen, PCH and Nguyen, YT and Seshadri, PK and Choi, JB and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, S

    Journal: Pyrotech

    Volume: 48

    Page: e202200268

  23. PARCv2: Physics-aware recurrent convolutional neural networks for spatiotemporal dynamics modeling

    Author: Nguyen, Phong CH and Cheng, Xinlun and Azarfar, Shahab and Seshadri, Pradeep and Nguyen, Yen T and Kim, Munho and Choi, Sanghun and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

    Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12503

  24. Synthetic microstructures for meso-scale simulations of energetic materials II: Quantification of shock sensitivity

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep K and Nguyen, YT and Sen, O and Udaykumar, HS

    Journal: J. Appl. Phys.

    Volume: 131

    Page: 055905

  25. Physics-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Modelling Energetic Material in the Weak Shock Regime

    Author: Cheng, Xinlun and t Nguyen, Yen and Choi, Joseph and Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Verma, Mayank and Udaykumar, HS and Baek, Stephen

  26. Determination of Flow Field Due to Clap and Fling Motion of a Rigid Flapping Wing Using LBM Simulation

    Author: Das, Debopam

    Volume: 9

  27. Evaluation of the importance of void shapes in predictive meso-informed ignition and growth surrogate models for heterogeneous energetic materials

    Author: Nguyen, Yen and Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Sen, Oishik and Hardin, David and Udaykumar, HS

    Volume: 2021

    Page: C23--011

  28. Analysis of unsteady aerodynamics on dragonfly using computational fluid dynamics and the effect of flapping trajectories on it

    Author: Ramanathan, A and Prabhu, S and Kumar, P and Ahmed, RA

  29. High fidelity mesoscale simulations of shock initiation through flyer impact on HMX crystal-binder aggregates

    Author: Roy, Shobhan and Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Okafor, Chukwudubem and Udaykumar, HS

    Volume: 2024

    Page: A20--009

  30. SCIMITAR3D-V2. 0: A versatile high-order accurate sharp-interface framework for compressible multi-material reactive simulations of heterogeneous energetic materials

    Author: Roy, Shobhan and Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Fang, Irene and Fuhrmeister, Jacob and Udaykumar, HS

  31. Structure-property-performance linkages for heterogeneous energetic materials using deep-learning generated synthetic microstructures

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Nguyen, Yen and Roy, Sidhartha and Sen, Oishik and Kumar, HS

    Volume: 2021

    Page: C23--010

  32. Modeling Multi-dimensional Shock-to-Detonation Transition of Pressed HMX Using a Meso-informed Ignition and Growth Model

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar

    Page: 1J--004

  33. High-order methods for simulations of shocked reactive energetic materials at all scales

    Author: Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Okafor, Chukwudubem and Udaykumar, HS

    Volume: 2024

    Page: A20--010

  34. Direct numerical simulation of shock-to-detonation transition (SDT) in energetic materials using microstructure images

    Author: t Nguyen, Yen and Seshadri, Pradeep Kumar and Roy, Shobhan and Udaykumar, HS

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