Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 'India🇮🇳, I reached my destination and you too!' : Chandrayaan-3 Chandrayaan-3 has successfully soft-landed on the moon 🌖!. Congratulations, India🇮🇳! #Chandrayaan_3 #Ch3

Force transmission during repose of flexible granular chains - our new paper in ⁦Soft Matter⁩ . We show the reason for column formation due to topological entanglement. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Check out this week's back cover, Force transmission during repose of flexible granular chains led by Mohd Ilyas Bhat, Prerna Sharma, T. G. Sitharam and Tejas G. Murthy doi.org/10.1039/D3SM00…

Our article on the back cover !! 😊

Zotero is the best citation and reference management app. It's totally free. But many folks don't know how to use it. Here's a tutorial on how to automate your citations and references with Zotero:

The exciting field of active matter poses many interesting research questions that scientists, including those at IISc, are trying to solve. Read more: kernel.iisc.ac.in/matter-on-the-… #IIScresearch

Bangalore’s potable water supply – the math is failing The issue of Bangalore’s potable water supply used to be an obsession of mine when I was a young journalist in the city. I studied and wrote about it a lot from a landscape perspective. This obsession also came from an early

New Article: We proposed a semi-analytical model for fluid injection‐induced cavity expansion in dry porous medium. The weakly coupled response is captured by considering time as a parameter rather than a variable. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… #mechanics_based_model

Give them wings to fly #phd #research #academia

New paper Phys. Rev. E 109, 054903 (2024) - Micromechanics of contact-bound cohesive granular materials in confined compression journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/1…

The June 2024 issue of Connect Magazine is out! It features stories on solutions to the #plastic problem, the influence of #scifi on #science, expeditions to deep oceans, campus night life, and much more. 🔗bit.ly/3Xk1UQo Cover: ZEROKELVIN #ConnectWithIISc

My mom’s interview on the last page of this issue of IISc connect magazine !

If you have a few moments to listen to this interview as a parent with your child. Possible one of the best post race interviews I have ever watched #PlayOn

Shravan Pradeep publishes a breathtaking paper on understanding soft earth suspensions:nature.com/articles/s4146… with me and of course work spouse Paulo E. Arratia . using just sand, clay and water he is able to reproduce the full range of observed debris flow rheologies!

And Tejas Gorur Murthy and I were there!!

Understanding shear bands in granular media through in-plane ploughing experiments at different strain rates published in Granular Matter (⁦Springer Nature⁩) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We invite postdocs interested in faculty positions to join us for an interactive Young Researchers Meeting on 2 August 2025. Hear from the Director, Deans & faculty members, and find out what IISc has to offer! Register by 12 noon (IST) on 1 August at: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

My former student Kishor, colleague Gaurav and I worked on the dynamics of a liquid film flowing down a granular chain. Here are the results of the experiments and some simulations in Journal of Fluid Mechanics cambridge.org/core/journals/…