Arshad Kudrolli

Professor, Physics

Professor Kudrolli received a B. Tech. in engineering physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay in 1990 and a Ph.D. in physics (electromagnetic and microwave chao) with S. Sridhar from Northeastern University in 1995. He has been at Clark since 1997.

His background includes a post-doc in nonlinear physics and pattern formation with Jerry Gollub at Haverford College.

Professor Kudrolli does experiments on a broad range of non-equilibrium phenomena, granular materials, and biological physics. Topics of recent experiments include grain shape and dynamics, scaled-up ciliary flow and synchronization, crumpling, self-assembly, erosion geomorphology, and population dynamics in bacterial colonies. He has recently developed an undergraduate continuum mechanics course combining fluid dynamics and biomechanics, and an activity based introductory physics course. Visit the complex matter and nonlinear physics laboratory page for more information on current research activities.

Professor Kudrolli has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow by the Sloan Foundation, and is a recipient of a Research Innovation Award from Research Corporation and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. His research is currently funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Physics, Northeastern University, 1996
  • Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, 1990

Affiliated Department

Physics

Scholarly and creative works

  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Bendability parameter for twisted ribbons to describe longitudinal wrinkling and delineate the near-threshold regime

    Published in Phys. Rev. E
    May
    2024
    Vol. 109
    Madelyn Leembruggen, Jovana Andrejevic, Arshad Kudrolli, Chris H. Rycroft
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Energetics of twisted elastic filament pairs

    Published in Phys. Rev. E
    Feb
    2024
    Vol. 109
    Julien Chopin, Animesh Biswas, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Dynamics of magnetoelastic robots in water-saturated granular beds

    Published in Phys. Rev. Fluids
    Sep
    2023
    Vol. 8
    Animesh Biswas, Trinh Huynh, Balaram Desai, Max Moss, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Particle kinetics and collective dynamics in chiral gasses, fluids, and crystals

    APS March Meeting
    2023
    Alexander P Petroff, Whittington Whittington, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Density Mediated Spin Correlations Drive Edge to Bulk Flow Transition in Active Chiral Matter

    Published in Physical Review E
    2023
    Vol. 108
    Alexander P Petroff, Christopher Wittington, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    A computational model of twisted elastic ribbons

    Published in Physical Review E
    Vol. 108
    Madelyn Leembruggen, Jovana Andrejevic, Arshad Kudrolli, Chris H Rycroft
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “Escape dynamics of confined undulating worms”

    Published in “Soft Matter”
    Vol. “19”
    Animesh "Biswas, Arshad" Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Dissolution-driven propulsion of floating solids

    Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    07
    2023
    Vol. 120
    Martin Chaigne, Michael Berhanu, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Alcove formation in dissolving cliffs driven by density inversion instability

    Published in Physics of Fluids
    2022
    Vol. 34
    Issue #ja
    Ram Sudhir Sharma, Michael Berhanu, Arshad A. Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Nonadditive drag of tandem rods drafting in granular sediments

    Published in Phys. Rev. E
    Mar
    2022
    Vol. 105
    Brian Chang, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Tensional twist-folding of sheets into multilayered scrolled yarns

    Published in Science Advances
    2022
    Vol. 8
    Issue #14
    Julien Chopin, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Predicting Erosion Channel First Passage with Machine Learning

    APS March Meeting
    March
    2021
    Sponsored by American Physical Society
    Isaac Khor, Li Han, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Statistical properties of ridge networks in crumpled sheets

    March
    2021
    Sponsored by American Physical Society
    Catalin Veghes, Li Han, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Predicting Erosion Channel First Passage with Machine Learning

    March
    2021
    Sponsored by American Physical Society
    Isaac Khor, Li Han, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Drag anisotropy of cylindrical solids in fluid-saturated granular beds

    Published in Phys. Rev. Fluids
    Dec
    2021
    Vol. 6
    Ankush Pal, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Mitigating exhalation puffs during oxygen therapy for respiratory disease

    Published in Physics of Fluids
    2021
    Vol. 33
    Arshad Kudrolli, Brian Chang, Jade Consalvi, Anton Deti, Christopher Frechette, Helen Scoville, Geoffrey Sheinfeld, William McGee
  • Presentations

    Active intruder dynamics in granular suspensions

    APS March Meeting 2021
    2021
    Sponsored by American Physical Society
    Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Pandemic Research

    Strategic Framework Launch
    Clark University
    Arshad Kudrolli
  • Presentations

    Undulatory and peristaltic motion of California blackworms in water saturated sediments

    73rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
    Sponsored by American Physical Society
    Arshad Kudrolli, Brian Chang
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Aerial mucosalivary droplet dispersal distributions with implications for disease mitigation

    Published in Phys. Rev. Research
    Dec
    2020
    Vol. 2
    Brian Chang, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Trinh Huynh, Arshad Kudrolli
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Unstable invasion of sedimenting granular suspensions

    Published in Physical Review Letters
    2020
    Vol. 125
    Arshad Kudrolli, Rausan Jewel, Ram S Sharma, Alexander P Petroff
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Effective drag of a rod in fluid-saturated granular beds

    Published in Phys. Rev. E
    2020
    Vol. 100
    Arshad Kudrolli, Benjamin Allen
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Burrowing dynamics of aquatic worms in soft sediments

    Published in PNAS
    2019
    Vol. 116
    Arshad Kudrolli, Bernny Ramirez
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Birth and decay of tensional wrinkles in hyperelastic sheets

    Published in Phys. Rev. E
    2019
    Vol. 100
    Arshad Kudrolli

Awards and grants

  • Intruder dynamics in fluid saturated granular medium

    NSF-CBET

    clock icon Jul. 15, 2018 – May. 31, 2023
  • Clark Science-Math Teaching and Education Partnership (C-STEP)

    NSF-DUE

    clock icon Sep. 15, 2013 – Dec. 31, 2022
  • 2. Internal erosion, particle transport, and channelization driven by fluid flow

    DOE-BES

    clock icon Jan. 1, 2018 – Dec. 31, 2021
  • 5. RAPID: Predicting Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Impact with Multiscale Contact and Transmission Mitigation

    NSF-DMR

  • Folding, crumpling and entangling of sheets and filaments

    NSF-DMR