Engineering Soft Earth-Mediated Matter

Shravan Pradeep is a postdoctoral researcher working with Doug Jerolmack (Penn Soft Earth Dynamics or PennSED Lab) and Paulo Arratia (Penn Complex Fluids Lab) at the University of Pennsylvania. Shravan’s research interests lie in the environment-soft matter-manufacturing nexus, where he explores fundamental and applied research in designing soft earth complex fluids.

Recent news
Work on clay rheology modeling published in the Journal of Rheology
Posted 17 Nov 2022 by Shravan
Work exploring suspension rheology approach to debris flows published in PNAS
Posted 24 Oct 2022 by Shravan
Excited to attend the KITP program on geophysical flows
Posted 21 Oct 2022 by Shravan
Postdoctoral Poster Award at the SOR Annual Meeting in Chicago
Posted 12 Oct 2022 by Shravan
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Recent publications
Understanding the rheology of kaolinite clay suspensions using Bayesian inference
Ran, Pradeep et al., J. Rheo. 2023
Published 17 Jan 2023
Phase-separation during sedimentation of dilute bacterial suspensions
Maldonado et al., Phy. Fluids 2022
Published 01 Nov 2022
Rheology of debris-flow materials is controlled by the distance from jamming
Kostynick, Matinpour, Pradeep et al., PNAS 2022
Published 24 Oct 2022
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Posts
Physics of disaster: How mudslides move
Posted 11 Jan 2022 by Shravan
New images lead to better prediction of shear thickening
Posted 07 Oct 2021 by Shravan
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