Education

• Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• M.Tech, IIT Kanpur, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
• B.Sc. Engineering, MIT Muzaffarpur (BRA Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar), Mechanical Engineering.

Experience

Teaching Interest

• Applied Dynamics and Vibrations  (UG), 2023-24  (Even Semester)
• Engineering Graphics (UG), 2023-24  (Even Semester)
• Aerospace Structures Lab (PG), 2023-24  (Even Semester)
• Mathematical Methods in Aerospace Engineering (PG), 2024-25 (Odd Semester)

Area of Interest

 Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations, Structural Dynamics, Theory of Plates and Shells, Approximate Mathematical Methods, Bi-linear Oscillators, Fluid Structure Intereaction, Friction Induced Vibrations, Modelling and Simulation of MEMS & NEMS.

Publications

• Soumyabrata Maiti,  Anish Kumar, Husain Kanchwala (2024)Dynamics of a cantilever beam with solitary open crack: nonlinear response to external and base excitation. Nonlinear Dynamics.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-024-10553-7
• Anish Kumar, Yuli Starosvetsky and Jayaprakash K.R (2022)  Analysis of transition regions of bi-linear, parametrically driven, two-oscillator model: Resonant excitation in the neighborhood of non-similar NNMs. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics , 145,104074.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das, Pankaj Wahi and Krzysztof Kamil Zur (2022)  On the stability of thin-walled circular cylindrical shells under static and periodic radial loading, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 527, 116872.
• Anish Kumar and Yuli Starosvetsky (2021),  Analysis of transition regions in the parametrically forced system of bi-linear oscillators:  Resonant excitation in the neighborhood of similar modes. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 515, 116435.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2017),  Effect of radial loads on the natural frequencies of thin-walled circular cylindrical shells.} International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 122, 37-52.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2015), Instabilities of thin circular cylindrical shells under radial loading, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 104, 174-189.

Awards

• Technion Post-doctoral Fellowship (2017), Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
• Travel Grant for ICOVP 2013, Lisbon, Portugal from DRPG, IIT Kanpur.
•  Letter of Appreciation (2023), Student Gymkhana, IIT Kanpur (For serving as a coordinator of Prayas, a Gymkhana club).
• PhD  Fellowship (2011) MHRD, Government of India.
• M.Tech Fellowship (2009)  MHRD, Government of India.
•  B.Sc. (Engineering) First Class with Distinction (2009).
• GATE 2009,  All India Rank 218.

Master students:

1. Reshma Sett (2023-2025)

2. Vamsi Krishna: (2023-2025)

• Soumyabrata Maiti,  Anish Kumar, Husain Kanchwala (2024)Dynamics of a cantilever beam with solitary open crack: nonlinear response to external and base excitation. Nonlinear Dynamics.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-024-10553-7
• Anish Kumar, Yuli Starosvetsky and Jayaprakash K.R (2022)  Analysis of transition regions of bi-linear, parametrically driven, two-oscillator model: Resonant excitation in the neighborhood of non-similar NNMs. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics , 145,104074.
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• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das, Pankaj Wahi and Krzysztof Kamil Zur (2022)  On the stability of thin-walled circular cylindrical shells under static and periodic radial loading, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 527, 116872.
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• Anish Kumar and Yuli Starosvetsky (2021),  Analysis of transition regions in the parametrically forced system of bi-linear oscillators:  Resonant excitation in the neighborhood of similar modes. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 515, 116435.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2017),  Effect of radial loads on the natural frequencies of thin-walled circular cylindrical shells.} International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 122, 37-52.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2015), Instabilities of thin circular cylindrical shells under radial loading, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 104, 174-189.
• Anish Kumar, Oded Gottlieb (2023),  The response of nonlinear circular viscoelastic panels to electrodynamic excitation, Third International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (NODYCON 2023), Rome, June 18-22, 2023
• Anish Kumar, Yuli Starosvetsky (2022), Analysis of parametric instabilities of two-oscillator bi-linear model through the resonant order reduction in the vicinity of similar nonlinear normal modes, 10th European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference (ENOC 2020+2), 17-22 July 2022, Lyon, France.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2015),  Effect of Radial Loading on the Beam Mode Vibration of Circular Cylindrical Shells}, Indian National Conference on Applied Mechanics (INCAM), 13-15 July 2015, IIT Delhi, India.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2013),  Effect of radial hydrostatic loads and boundary conditions on the natural frequencies of thin walled circular cylindrical shells, 11th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP), Lisbon, Portugal, 9-12 September 2013.
• Anish Kumar, Sovan Lal Das and Pankaj Wahi (2011),  Dynamic buckling of thin walled cylindrical shells subjected to fluctuating radial loads, 21st International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology 2011 (SMiRT 21), 6-11 November 2011, New Delhi, India.

Master students:

1. Reshma Sett (2023-2025)

2. Vamsi Krishna: (2023-2025)