Preprints

• Rheomergy: Collective behavior mediated by active flow-based recruitment. Ganga Prasath, S., and Mahadevan, L. [arXiv]
• Wetting of an elastic sheet subject to external tension. Gregory Kozyref, Benny Davidovitch, Ganga Prasath, S., Guillaume Palumbo, and Fabian Brau. [arXiv]
• Cooperative escape in ants and robots. Ganga Prasath, S.(+), Souvik Mandal(+), Fabio Giardina(+), Venkatesh Murthy, and Mahadevan, L. [biorXiv]

Published

2022

• Optimal policies for mitigating pandemic costs. M. Serra(+), S. al-Mosleh(+), S. Ganga Prasath(+), V. Raju(+), S. Mantena, J. Chandra, S. Iams, L. Mahadevan. Accepted in Phys. Biol. [arXiv]

2021

• Totimorphic assemblies from neutrally-stable units. Gaurav Chaudhary(+), Ganga Prasath, S(+)., and Mahadevan, L. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 10.1073/pnas.2107003118. [arXiv] [URL] [Harvard Press] [Crimson]

• Shapes of a filament on the surface of a bubble. Ganga Prasath, S., Joel Marthelot, Rama Govindarajan, and Narayanan Menon. Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 10.1098/rspa.2021.0353. [arXiv] [URL]

2020

• Wetting and wrapping of a floating droplet by a thin elastic filament. Ganga Prasath, S., Joel Marthelot, Narayanan Menon, and Rama Govindarajan. Soft Matter, 10.1039/D0SM01863E. [arXiv] [URL]

2019

• Accurate solution method for the Maxey-Riley equation, and the effects of Basset history. Ganga Prasath, S., Vishal Vasan, and Rama Govindarajan. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 10.1017/jfm.2019.194. [arXiv] [URL] [Focus URL] [ICTS News]

  

2016

• Relaxation of a highly deformed elastic filament at a fluid interface. Ganga Prasath, S., Joel Marthelot, Rama Govindarajan, and Narayanan Menon. Physical Review Fluids, 1, 033903. [arXiv] [URL]

Miscellaneous

• Dynamo action by turbulence in absolute equilibrium. Ganga Prasath, S., Stephane Fauve, and Marc Brachet. Europhysics Letters, 106(2), 29002. [URL] (pdf)

• Effects of aspect ratio and orientation on the wake characteristics of low Reynolds number flow over a triangular prism. Ganga Prasath, S., Sudharsan, M., Vinodh Kumar, V., Diwakar, S. V., Sundararajan, T., and Tiwari, S. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 46, 59-76. [URL] (pdf)

In preparation

• Collective phototactic robotectonics. Fabio Giardina(+), Ganga Prasath, S.(+) and Mahadevan, L.
• Branching in soft gels. Ganga Prasath, S.(+), Aditi Chakrabarti(+), and Mahadevan, L.
• Dynamics of control and failure in one-leg balance. Ganga Prasath, S., Owen Berger, and Mahadevan, L.
• Transient dynamics of a moving rigid surface. Divya Jaganathan, Ganga Prasath, S., Rama Govindarajan, and Vishal Vasan.
• Speed-Accuracy tradeoffs in Roulette betting. Siheng Chen, Ganga Prasath, S., and Mahadevan, L.

(+) - Equal contribution

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