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Swarnava Ghosh

Computational Scientist

Dr. Swarnava Ghosh is a Computational Scientist in the Advanced Computing for Chemistry and Materials Group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). His research is broadly in the area of materials, mechanics , computational physics and scientific computing and the development of computational methods for mechanics and materials. Dr. Ghosh held Postdoctoral positions at ORNL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. 

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, minor in Mathematics, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
  • M.S. in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  • B.E. (First class Honors) in Civil (Construction) Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Publications:

  1. Ying Shi Teh, Swarnava Ghosh and Kaushik Bhattacharya, “Machine-learned prediction of the electronic fields in a crystal”, Under review in Mechanics of Materials, preprint available on arXiv.
  2. Swarnava Ghosh and Kaushik Bhattacharya, “Spectral quadrature for the first principles study of crystal defects: Application to magnesium”, Under review in Journal of Computational Physics, preprint available on arXiv.
  3. Swarnava Ghosh, “Precipitation during creep in Magnesium-Aluminum alloys”, Under review in Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  4. Swarnava Ghosh and Kaushik Bhattacharya, “Influence of thermomechanical loads on the energetics of precipitation in magnesium aluminum alloys”, Acta Materialia 193(2020), 28-39
  5. Swarnava Ghosh, Amartya S. Banerjee and Phanish Suryanarayana, “Symmetry-adapted real-space density functional theory for cylindrical geometries: application to large group IV nanotubes”, Physical Review B, 100(2019),12, 125143
  6. Swarnava Ghosh and Phanish Suryanarayana, “Electronic structure study regarding the influence of macroscopic deformations on the vacancy formation energy in aluminum”, Mechanics Research Communications, 99 (2019) 58-63
  7. Swarnava Ghosh and Phanish Suryanarayana, “SPARC: Accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Density Functional Theory: Extended systems”, Computer Physics Communications, 216 (2017) 109-125
  8. Swarnava Ghosh and Phanish Suryanarayana, “SPARC: Accurate and efficient finite-difference formulation and parallel implementation of Density Functional Theory: Isolated clusters”, Computer Physics Communications, 212 (2017) 189-204
  9. Swarnava Ghosh and Phanish Suryanarayana, “Higher-order finite-difference formulation of periodic Orbital-free Density Functional Theory”, Journal of Computational Physics, 307 (2016), 634-652