Shubham Sharma, Ph.D.

Bengaluru, India

Hi there! I am a Computational Mechanician who uses computers ( and some brainpower ! ) to solve problems of mechanics. I am currently employed as a Senior Research Engineer at SST India Pvt. Ltd., where I am developing softwares for the piping industry. Imagine power plants with complicated network of pipes or a water distribution system which brings water to your homes. All these systems undergo rigorous testing by an engineer who makes use of a computer software (e.g. CAEPIPE) to ensure these are safe and do no fail. It is truly remarkable how a computers have revolutionised engineering and I am glad to be contributing my part !

Prior to this, I finished my Ph.D. from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru, under the supervision of Prof. Ananth Ramaswamy. During my Ph.D. I worked in the broad area of Computational Fracture Mechanics. This is a highly interdisciplinary field and makes use of advanced concepts from Physics, Material Science, Mathematics, Computer Programming to simulate how cracks propagate in a material or structure.

Materials or Structures break when the size of the cracks becomes too large. A series of tragic incidents such as the splitting of the liberty ship into two half by a crack, breaking of airplane fuselage led to engineers designing structures for a fail-safe design using the concepts of fracture mechanics. Unfortunately, predicting the growth of cracks involves complicated physics and even more complicated numerical schemes to implement these physics in a computer. My Ph.D. thesis made further developments to an advanced numerical method called the Virtual Element Method to make crack propagation simulations accurate and fast.

When I’m not writing code or staring at stress contour plots, I spend time with my wife ! Other times, I read about how AI is going to take away my job.

I’m always open to conversations about computational mechanics, numerical methods,or anything at the intersection of engineering and software. Feel free to reach out!

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
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selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.