Abhi obtained his PhD at the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where he was co-advised by Professor Stefan Luding and Dr. Vanessa Magnanimo investigating the flow behavior of the dense granular material. He moved to the Levich Institute in the City College of New York after finishing his PhD, where he developed the constitutive model for dense frictional suspensions as a part of post-doctoral research co-supervised by Professors Jeff Morris and Morton Denn.
Abhi was recently awarded the 2020 Publication Award for his work entitled ‘A constitutive model for simple shear of dense frictional suspensions.’ JOR 62, 457 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1122/1.4999237
Abhi’s research interests include studying the flow and jamming of particulate systems such as dense suspensions (like cornstarch) and dry grains (like glass beads). He uses numerical simulations to seek the understanding of the observed experimental behavior of non-Newtonian features observed in both dense suspensions and dry grains.
Abhi is currently a joint postdoctoral scholar between Professor Heinrich Jaeger at the JFI and Professor Juan de Pablo at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. His research efforts focus on simulating suspension dynamics. He develops numerical schemes for characterizing, visualizing, and understanding the continuum behavior of particulate flows including dry/wet granular flows, dense suspensions, and emulsions.
Leveraging the Polymer Glass Transition to Access Thermally Switchable Shear Jamming Suspensions
Chuqiao Chen, Michael van der Naald, Abhinendra Singh, Neil D. Dolinski, Grayson L. Jackson, Heinrich M. Jaeger, Stuart J. Rowan*, and Juan J. de Pablo*, ACS Cent. Sci. 2023, 9, 4, 639–647
Shear Thickening and Jamming of Dense Suspensions: The “Roll” of Friction
Shear Thickening and Jamming of Dense Suspensions: The “Roll” of Friction Abhinendra Singh, Christopher Ness, Ryohei Seto, Juan J. de Pablo, and Heinrich M. Jaeger Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248005 – Published 18 June 2020
Structure and dynamics of hydrodynamically interacting finite-size Brownian particles in a spherical cavity: Spheres and cylinders
Li, Jiyuan, Xikai Jiang, Abhinendra Singh, Olle G. Heinonen, Juan P. Hernández-Ortiz, and Juan J. de Pablo. "Structure and dynamics of hydrodynamically interacting finite-size Brownian particles in a spherical cavity: Spheres and cylinders." The Journal of Chemical Physics 152, no. 20 (2020): 204109.
Shape induced segregation and anomalous particle transport under spherical confinement
Singh, Abhinendra, Jiyuan Li, Xikai Jiang, Juan P. Hernández-Ortiz, Heinrich M. Jaeger, and Juan J. de Pablo. "Shape induced segregation and anomalous particle transport under spherical confinement." Physics of Fluids 32, no. 5 (2020): 053307.