Constitutively Informed Particle Dynamics:

A Novel Discrete Particle Modelling Approach

F​ree Webinar

Tuesday, 17 February 2026 | Online

14:00 (Bengaluru)
09:30 (Berlin) | 08:30 (London)

P​art of the प्रवाह -Pravaha - NAFEMS India Webinar Series
E​xploring Frontiers in Engineering Modelling & Simulation

Historically, discrete particle models have been very limited—consisting mainly of linear pairwise interactions and able to describe only a very narrow range of macroscopic constitutive behaviour. The models have often been further constrained by a strong dependence on the nature of discretization.

This webinar introduces a new approach based on adiscrete particle paradigm developed to overcome the constraints of classical continuum mechanics and the limitations inherent in earlier models.

We will demonstrate this approach’s efficacy in describing several interesting problems, including:

• Evolving microstructures: brittle crack growth.
• Phase transformations
• Fluid-structure interactions

Join us to discover how this new approach, by allowing us to model very complex material behaviour, represents an evolution in the way we model the mechanical behaviour of materials.

Agenda

• W​elcome & Introductions
  J​o Potts, NAFEMS
• U​pdate on NAFEMS India
  NAFEMS India Chair - Uma Maheshwar | BEC - GE Aerospace
  NAFEMS India Chair Elect - Jaya Raju Namala | Airbus Group India Private Ltd. 
• Constitutively Informed Particle Dynamics: A Novel Discrete Particle Modelling Approach
  Dr. Srikanth Vedantam, IIT Madras

• Q​&A

O​ur Speaker ...

Dr. Srikanth Vedantam is currently a professor in the Department of Engineering Design with a joint appointment in the Department of Medical Sciences and Technology at IIT Madras. Before moving to IIT Madras he was a faculty member at the National University of Singapore. He had worked as a Researcher in the General Electric Global Research Centre NY USA before moving to NUS. Dr. Srikanth obtained his ScD from MIT and MS from the Penn State University. His BTech is from IIT Madras in Mechanical Engineering.

Dr. Srikanth has published more than 75 journal papers and has been awarded 11 US and 3 Indian patents. His interests are in the areas of computational solid and fluid mechanics and computational materials science, particularly on the role of evolving microstructure on the mechanical behaviour of materials.