The Ohio State University

Professor
John B. Nordholt Professor

PhD 1988, University of Michigan

Room W496
201 W. 19th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

614-292-2599

Email: ghosh.5

Research

Professor Somnath Ghosh is an international leader in the field of multiple-scale computational modeling of behavior and failure of heterogeneous materials. He has made pioneering contributions to the field of integrated experimental-computational modeling of composite materials and polycrystalline materials. His early work on serial-sectioning, 3-D microstructural representation and characterization has prompted a number of current research programs. He has developed a powerful Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method (VCFEM) for efficient and accurate modeling of complex heterogeneous microstructures, which now has a worldwide following. Multi-scale modeling with VCFEM to predict the evolution of damage across scales has yielded unique modeling tools with tremendous potential in interdisciplinary research fields.

Professor Ghosh was one of the first contributors in the development of the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian FEM, an important current simulation tool. His research has generated significant funding from various governmental and industrial agencies, which is rare in the field of computational mechanics. He was the only awardee of the (1994) National Young Investigator award from the U.S. National Science Foundation for Mechanics of Materials, and one of his student advisees received the prestigious Robert Melosh Medal for the best student paper in computational mechanics.

Professor Ghosh is on the editorial board of six journals related to computational mechanics. He has delivered numerous plenary and keynote lectures at conferences, and he organized the highly successful NUMIFORM 2004 (8th International Conference on Numerical Methods of Industrial Forming Processes), which more than doubled the past participation of delegates. His excellence as an educator has been recognized by a number of honors, including the Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, which is the highest award in the College of Engineering at OSU. In addition to these honors, the OSU Lumley Research Award for outstanding research has been given to Professor Ghosh on four separate occasions. He is a member of the executive council of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, and he is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Selected Publications

Please refer to the "Publications" area of Dr. Ghosh's web site: The Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory at http://ghomech1.eng.ohio-state.edu/.