Murthy N. Guddati Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Structural Engineering and Mechanics Office: 312 Mann Hall Phone: (919) 515-7699 Fax: (919) 515-7908 E-mail: mnguddat@eos.ncsu.edu Personal Page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~mnguddat/

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, solid mechanics and wave propagation, computer-aided engineering and computational science.

Education

Ph.D., Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1998

M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1994

B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1992

Representative Publications

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas (1998), Characteristics Methods for Transient Analysis of Unbounded Media, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 164, 187-206.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas (1998), An Efficient Numerical Algorithm for Exterior Scalar Wave Propagation in a Homogeneous Layer, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 167, 261-273.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas (1999), Space-time Finite Elements for the Analysis of Transient Wave Propagation in Unbounded Layered Media, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 36, 4699-4723.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas (2000), Continued Fraction Absorbing Boundary Conditions for the Wave Equation, Journal of Computational Acoustics, in press.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas (1998), Transient Analysis of Wave Propagation in Unbounded Media: Space-Time Methods and Continued-Fraction Implementations, IUTAM Symposium on Computational Methods for Unbounded Media, Ed. T. L. Geers, 169-178, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Invited paper.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas, An Efficient Numerical Method for Transient Analysis of Wave Propagation in Layered Media, ASCE/ASME/SES Mechanics Conference-97, Evanston, IL, June 1997. Invited presentation.

M. N. Guddati and J. L. Tassoulas, Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Transient Wave Propagation in Unbounded Domains, 13th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Baltimore, MD, June 1999. Invited paper.

M. N. Guddati, Reduced-Dispersion Finite Elements for Time-Harmonic Wave Propagation Problems, EM2000 - ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, May 2000.

Professional Memberships

Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Member, US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM)

Associate Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)