Gajanan Choudhary

EXPERIENCE

Research Associate
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Postdoctoral Fellow
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Graduate Research Assistant
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Assistant Surveyor
Research and Rule Development Division, Indian Register of Shipping, Mumbai, India

Structural Engineering Intern
Himanshu Tulpule and Associates, Pune, India

EDUCATION

Graduate Portfolio
Scientific Computation
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.)
Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)
Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Coupling ADCIRC and GSSHA in Water Coupler for simulation of compound flooding events

PyADCIRC: A Python interface for ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) for multi-software coupling

Coupling 2D diffusive wave and 3D groundwater models in Adaptive Hydraulics (AdH)

Water Coupler: Coupling North American Mesoscale Forecast System (NAM), AdH, and GSSHA in Python for simulation of compound flooding events

Strong coupling of 2D and 3D shallow water and transport models in AdH

Adding mesh adaptivity for 3D prism elements in AdH

Improving parallel load rebalancing of adaptive tetrahedral meshes in AdH

Numerical solution of multivariate first order ordinary differential equations

Adding parallel eXtensible Data Model and Format (XDMF) library to AdH for improved I/O and visualization

Parallel meteorological library development for adaptive meshes in AdH

Hurricane vulnerability of the Houston-Galveston Area Protection System

Finite element analysis of a post-Panamax container ship

Sectorial properties of arbitrarily shaped prismatic thin-walled beams

Automatic calculation of shear flow in ship hull girders

Blast response of sandwich-structured composites submerged in water

Discrete optimization of truss weight using genetic algorithm

A MATLAB-based software for graphical modeling and analysis of trusses

Crack detection in concrete using image processing, fuzzy logic, and neural networks

PUBLICATIONS

Choudhary, G. K., Trahan, C. J., Pettey, L., Farthing, M., Berger, C., Savant, G., Inanc, E., Dawson, C., & Loveland, M. D. (2023). Strongly coupled 2D and 3D shallow water models II: Validation and applications. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Submitted and under review.

Choudhary, G. K. (2019). Coupled atmospheric, hydrodynamic, and hydrologic models for simulation of complex phenomena (Doctoral dissertation). The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/7729

Trahan, C. J., Savant, G., Berger, R. C., McAlpin, T. O., Pettey, L., Choudhary, G. K., & Dawson, C. N. (2018). Formulation and application of the Adaptive Hydraulics three-dimensional shallow water and transport models. Journal of Computational Physics, 374, 47-90.

Choudhary, G. K. (2018). Verification and validation of coupled 2D-3D shallow water finite element models (Unpublished report for Portfolio in Scientific Computation). The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

Choudhary, G. K. (2017). Algebraic coupling of 2D and 3D shallow water finite element models (Master's report). The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.15781/T2Q81570X

Choudhary, G. K., & Doshi, K. M. (2015). An algorithm for shear stress evaluation in ship hull girders. Ocean Engineering, 108, 678-691.

Choudhary, G. K. (2013). Discrete optimization of truss weight using genetic algorithm (Unpublished bachelor's report). Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.

Choudhary, G. K., & Dey, S. (2012, October). Crack detection in concrete surfaces using image processing, fuzzy logic, and neural networks. In Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on (pp. 404-411). IEEE.    Click here to download the accepted version.

TALKS

Choudhary, G. K., 2019, Coupled atmospheric, hydrodynamic, and hydrologic models for simulation of complex phenomena, PhD defense presented to the Dissertation Committee and the public at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, Sep 30.

Choudhary, G. K., Trahan, C., Pettey, L., Farthing, M. and Dawson, C., 2017, Strongly coupled 2D & 3D shallow water models, Poster presented at the External Advisory Committee Meeting at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, Oct 20.

Choudhary, G. K., Trahan, C., Pettey, L., Farthing, M. and Dawson, C., 2017, Algebraic coupling of 2D and 3D shallow water finite element models, The 16th International workshop on Multi-scale (Un)-structured mesh numerical Modeling for coastal, shelf, and global ocean dynamics, Stanford, CA, USA, Aug 29-Sep 1.

Choudhary, G. K., and Dey, S., 2012, Crack detection in concrete surfaces using image processing, fuzzy logic, and neural networks, 2012 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence (ICACI), Nanjing, China, Oct 18-20.