Andrew J. Parkes, Vivek T. Ramamoorthy, Ender Özcan, Bi-objective Search for Acoustic Topology Optimisation and Noise Reduction, EURO 2022 - Espoo, July 2022.
WORK
Marie Sklodowska Curie Early Stage Researcher
European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme -
No2Noise (2018-2021) (no2noise.eu ) funded under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions grant: 765472
The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom | Matelys Research Lab,
France (2018-present)
Scientific Officer C (2015-2017) & Scientific Officer D (2017-2018)
Structural Analysis and Material Studies Section (SAMSS)
Safety Research Institute
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (2017-2018)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Heuristics and metaheuristics for topology optimisation of acoustic porous materials
The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (2018)
Supervisors: Ender Özcan, Andrew J. Parkes, Luc Jaouen
Orientation Course for DGFS fellows:
BARC Training School, Mumbai (2015)
Master of Technology in Mechanical Design
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2013-2015)
Supervisor: Chandramouli Padmanabhan
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Sri Sairam Engineering College, Anna University Chennai
(2009-2013)
PROJECTS
Ph. D student at the University of Nottingham
Heuristics and metaheuristics for topology optimisation in acoustic porous materials.
Multilayered sound package optimisation using genetic algorithms
Hybrid gradient and non-gradient algorithms for acoustic topology optimisation.
Web projects
- TopOptWeb
- MatlabJS
- Spring mass demo
- CMA-ES demo
- Genetic Algorithm tutorial
- Tortuosity Demo
- Audio scene classification
- Nurse scheduler
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
Seismic margin analysis
Master of Technology
Final Project
Prediction of noise in power transformers using statistical energy
analysis
Design Projects
- Design of a mechanism for a wheelchair cum exerciser
- Design of a semi-automatic rice transplanter
Centre For Innovation (CΦ
cfi.iitm.ac.in) projects
- Block Printing Machine for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Paper Punching Machine for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Bachelor of Engineering
Design of a hydrodynamic under-water remotely operated vehicle
Teaching
Vision
The game perspective
is the paradigm of learning through games or interactive demos. While
this is not a replacement for conventional learning (books, lectures,
exercises), it is a valuable alternative teaching method.
With the ever-growing forest of human knowledge, there are too many
exciting things to learn, and life is too short.
With the help of games or interactive demos, knowledge could be assimilated faster
and in a more fun way allowing us to learn more in a given lifetime. Check
out some of my works available in the
web projects
section. Thanks to Luc Jaouen for inspiring me to make these. Check out
his works at
Acoustic Porous Material Recipes.
A shoutout to Dan Russell for
his amazing work.
Concepts that fascinate me
These are some of the concepts that I found intriguing. It is always interesting to ask people what concepts fascinate them the most, as I always learn something new. Every person has their list, and here is mine. If you think I need to include something, let me know. :-)
- Euler's identity: \( e^{i\pi} +1 =0 \)
-
Calculus: From \( \frac{dy}{dx} \) to \( i\hbar \frac{\partial
\Psi}{\partial t} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \frac{\partial^2
\Psi}{\partial x^2} + V \Psi \)
-
Principle of conservation of momentum - The fact that it holds true
from photons to blackholes
- Gauss' divergence theorem
- Fourier series and transforms, the FFT algorithm.
- Eigen value analysis - natural vibrating frequencies of objects
-
Modal superposition technique - finding the response of
multi-degrees-of-freedom systems to vibrations
-
Mohr's circle - How a piece of chalk breaks under tension and torsion
- Gyroscopic effect
- Coriolis effect
- Castigliano's theorems
- Cauchy's integral theorem
- Planck's black body radiation (The birth of quantum mechanics)
-
Michelson and Morley experiment -> Speed of light being constant for
all observers
- Special relativity and general relativity
- Principle of equivalence
- Young's double slit experiment -> Many-worlds interpretation?
- Superfluid helium
- Cryogenic liquefaction cycles - The art of liquifying gases
- Monte Carlo method - Simple and powerful.
- Fermat's last theorem
- Neural Networks for emotion recognition
- Mechanisms of sound absorption in porous media
- The concept of topology optimisation
- Antichess: (weakly solved) 1.e3 wins for White
Courses I wish to teach
- Engineering Mechanics
- Optimisation and Artificial Intelligence methods
- Shape and topology optimisation of mechanical structures
- Theory of vibration and acoustics
Web projects
Topology optimisation in web
An implementation of the solid isotropic material with penalisation
(SIMP) approach in Javascript.
Damping ratio demo
An interactive demo to get an intuition for the damping ratio.
Genetic algorithm tutorial
A simple interactive tutorial on genetic algorithms.
MatlabJS: A Javascript mini-library
A mini-library for Matlab users who are new to Javascript.
CMA-ES tutorial
A simple interactive tutorial on Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Evolution Strategy.
Image Classification Web
A web app for MobileNet image classifier.
Nurse scheduling tool
A web tool for nurse scheduling.
Tortuosity Demo
Draw a path to compute its tortuosity.
Sound sensing
Audio Scene Classification demo.
TopOptWeb3D
3D topology optimisation on web.
