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Somnath Ghosh

Professor
John B. Nordholt Professor

PhD 1988, University of Michigan
M.S. Cornell University
B. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology

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

614-292-2599

Email: ghosh.5

Web site: http://ghomech1.eng.ohio-state.edu/
Thrust Area(s): Applied Mechanics, Design and Manufacturing

Research

Dr. Somnath Ghosh is the John B. Nordholt Professor at the Ohio State University. He is an international leader in the field of Computational Mechanics, particularly in micro-mechanical analysis and multiple-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials. He has made pioneering contributions to the field of spatial and temporal multi-scale modeling applied to mechanical behavior and failure response of material systems like composite materials, polycrystalline metals and alloys and biomaterials.  He has created powerful methods for microstructural characterization, image based microstructural analysis of mechanical behavior, damage and failure of heterogeneous materials, as well as nano-scale analysis using molecular dynamics. He is the innovator of the well known Voronoi cell finite element method or VCFEM, and 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 many 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.


Professor Ghosh is on the editorial board of eight journals. He has delivered numerous plenary and keynote lectures at conferences. In 2004, he successfully organized NUMIFORM 2004, the 8th International Conference on Numerical Methods of Industrial Forming Processes. He is the organizer of the 10th US National Congress of Computational Mechanics in 2009, the main Congress of  the US Association of Computational Mechanics.His contributions as an educator have been recognized by a number of honors and awards. He was awarded the  Harrison Faculty Award for Excellence in Engineering Education by the College of Engineering at OSU in 2001. In 2007, the Ohio State University awarded him the University Distinguished Scholar award, the highest award given for scholarship. Professor Ghosh is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), US Association of Computational Mechanics (2007), ASM International (2006) and ASME (2002). He was the only awardee of the 1994 National Young Investigator award from the U.S. National Science Foundation for Mechanics of Materials. One of his student advisees received the prestigious Robert Melosh Medal for the best student paper in computational mechanics. He was an elected member of the executive council of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) from 2002-2006, 2008-2012 and was the Chair of USACM’s Materials Modeling committee from 2002-2007.  

 

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/.

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