Andrew J. Parkes, Vivek T. Ramamoorthy, Ender Ă–zcan, Bi-objective Search for Acoustic Topology Optimisation and Noise Reduction, EURO 2022 - Espoo, July 2022.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Metaheuristics, topology optimisation, acoustic porous materials, machine learning.
PROJECTS
Ph. D 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.
Several web projects
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
Seismic margin analysis
Master of Technology
Final Project:
Prediction of noise in power transformers using statistical energy
analysis
Course Projects:
- Design of a mechanism for a wheelchair exerciser (Theory of mechanisms)
- Design of a semi-automatic rice transplanter (Product design)
Centre For Innovation (CΦ
cfi.iitm.ac.in) projects: Designed and fabricated assistive devices for children with Cerebral Palsy.
- Block Printing Device
- Paper Punching Device
Bachelor of Engineering
Design of a hydrodynamic under-water remotely operated vehicle
Teaching
Game perspective
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: \( e^{i\pi} +1 =0 \)
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Calculus: From \( \frac{dy}{dx} \) to \( i\hbar \frac{\partial
\Psi}{\partial t} = -\frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \frac{\partial^2
\Psi}{\partial x^2} + V \Psi \)
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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
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Modal superposition technique - finding the response of
multi-degrees-of-freedom systems to vibrations
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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)
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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 am interested to teach
- Engineering Mechanics
- Optimisation and Artificial Intelligence methods
- Shape and topology optimisation in 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.
Math demos
Interactive math concept demos.
