Bodhinanda (Nanda) Chandra

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley

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6124 ABCD Etcheverry Hall

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley working with Prof. Ken Kamrin. Previously, I completed my PhD in Civil Engineering also at Berkeley, advised by Prof. Kenichi Soga. Before coming to Berkeley, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Kyushu University in Japan and a master’s degree in Computational Mechanics from the Technical University of Munich in Germany.

My research interests are primarily focused on multi-physics and multi-scale coupled problems in geomechanics, including their mechanical theory, modeling, and numerical simulation using high-performance computing. This encompasses geomechanics challenges across various confinement levels. Specifically, my key research areas include:

  1. Surficial geomechanics, with an emphasis on climate- and earthquake-resilient geostructures, particularly those subject to erosion in river or coastal environments;
  2. Deep geomechanics involving fluid injection and extraction, such as CO2 sequestration, energy extraction, and the stability of rock formations, addressing issues like borehole failure on a local scale and induced seismicity on a larger scale;
  3. Extraterrestrial soil modeling, rheology and their multiphysics interactions with human-made objects.

Throughout my research career, I have developed substantial expertise in computational solid mechanics and fluid dynamics, particle-based methods (MPM, SPH, DEM), contact and interface treatment, coupled formulations, and constitutive modeling. I am always eager to explore innovative approaches for applying mechanics and numerical methods to design safer and more efficient engineering systems and infrastructure.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, camping, hiking, and photography.

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news

Sep 27, 2024 Our paper on coupled Navier-Stokes/Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer flow modeling using the Material Point Method (MPM) has been recently published in the Journal of Computational Physics.
Sep 12, 2024 Invited to give a webinar presentation for the Indonesian Civil Engineers’ Society of North America on “Computational Mechanics for Natural Hazards Modeling”.
Sep 09, 2024 I am starting a new website!
Sep 06, 2024 Together with my colleagues from the Soga Research Group, I co-organized and presented at the 15th Annual MPM Workshop held at the Berkeley City Club.
Aug 10, 2024 Participated in a two-week training program at Argonne National Lab (7/28-8/9) on extreme-scale computing (ATPESC).

selected publications

  1. JCP
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    Mixed material point method formulation, stabilization, and validation for a unified analysis of free-surface and seepage flow
    Bodhinanda Chandra, Ryota Hashimoto, Ken Kamrin, and 1 more author
    Journal of Computational Physics, 2024
  2. Stabilized mixed material point method for incompressible fluid flow analysis
    Bodhinanda Chandra, Ryota Hashimoto, Shinnosuke Matsumi, and 2 more authors
    Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2024
  3. Shear band evolution and post-failure simulation by the extended material point method ( XMPM ) with localization detection and frictional self-contact
    Yong Liang, Bodhinanda Chandra, and Kenichi Soga
    Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022
  4. Nonconforming Dirichlet boundary conditions in implicit material point method by means of penalty augmentation
    Bodhinanda Chandra, Veronika Singer, Tobias Teschemacher, and 2 more authors
    Acta Geotechnica, 2021