Abani Kumar Patra Research Interests Education Employment History

A. Patra, June 1, 2008 1622. Pitman,E.B., Nichita,C.C. ∗ , Patra,A.K., Bauer,A.C. ∗ , Bursik, M, and Weber,A. ∗ A modelof granular flows over an erodible surface, 2003, Discrete and Continuous DynamicalSystems: Series B Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Computations Vol. 3 no. 4,pp. 589-599.23. Bauer, A.C. ∗ , and Patra, A.K., 2004, Robust and efficient Domain Decomposition Preconditionersfor adaptive hp finite element approximations of linear elasticity with andwithout discontinuous coefficients, International Journal Numerical Methods in EngineeringVol. 59, no. 3, Pages: 337-364.24. Patra, A.K., Bauer,A. C. ∗ , Nichita,C. ∗ Pitman, E.B., Sheridan, M. F., Bursik,M., Rupp,B. ∗ ,Webber,A ∗ , Namikawa, L. ∗ and Renschler, C., 2005, Parallel Adaptive Numerical Simulationof Dry Avalanches over Natural Terrain Journal of Volcanol. and GeothermalResearch, Vol 139, pp. 1-21.25. Bursik, M., Patra,A., Pitman, E.B., Nichita, C., Macias, J. L., Saucedo,R., Girina, O.,2005,Advances in Studies of Dense Volcanic Granular Flows,Reports on Progress in Physics,Vol. 68, No. 2, 2005.26. Litonjua, L.A., Andreana,S. Patra, A. and ,Cohen, R.E., 2004, The Bio-Engineeringtheory of abfraction. A Review, Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, Vol. 14, no. 3pp. 311-321.27. Sheridan, M. F., Stinton ∗ , A.J, Patra, A., Pitman E. B., Bauer, A. and Nichita, C.C. EvaluatingTITAN2D mass-flow model using 1963 Little Tahoma Peak avalanches, MountRainier Washington,2005, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., Vol 139, pp.89-102.28. Tsai,J. ∗ , Patra, A. and Wetherhold, R, 2005, Finite Element Simulation of Shaped DuctileFiber Pullout Using a Mixed Cohesive Zone/Friction Interface Model CompositesPart A, Vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 827-838 .29. Paliwal, A. ∗ and Patra, A. The least-squares meshfree method for incompressible flowswith and without free surfaces, accepted in Int. J. Num. Meth. in Eng.30. Patra, A. K., Nichita, C.C., Bauer,A.C., Pitman, E.B., Bursik, M. and Sheridan, M.F. ParallelAdaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Approximation For Thin Layer Avalanche Modelingto appear Computers and Geosciences.31. Armstrong, D., Fishkin, Z., Shah, H., Cassidy, J., Patra, A., Mihalko, W., ProximalFemoral Physis Shear in Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis - a Finite Element Study, J.of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 2006; 26:291-29432. Rupp, B., Bursik, M., Namikawa, L., Webb, A., Patra, A.K., Saucedo, R., Macas, J.L.,and Renschler, C., 2006, Computational modeling of the 1991 block and ash flowsat Colima Volcano, Mxico, in Siebe, C., Macas, J.L., and Aguirre-Daz, G.J., eds.,Neogene-Quaternary continental margin volcanism: A perspective from Mexico: GeologicalSociety of America Special Paper 402, Penrose Conference Series, p. 237-252,doi: 10.1130/2006.2402(11).