Contact
You can reach me at avik.mondal.2014@gmail.com.
About Me
I am a physics Ph.D student at the University of Michigan interested in pursuing a career as a physical oceanographer. I am particularly interested in leveraging my training in theoretical and computational physics to study how interactions between the ocean and atmosphere drive climate variability.
I began graduate school studying the physics of developing organisms. I developed simple models to understand how developing multicellular organisms leverage physical principles to robustly develop organs with specific size, shapes, or patterns. I primarily worked with vertex models and fly wing data (see Biophysics section). I first encountered physical oceanography and fluid mechanics projects about halfway through my Ph.D. I found the two topics fascinating, and jumped at the opportunity to work on a project studying the air-sea interface in NASA's MITgcm/GEOS5 coupled climate model. My graduate school work focused on developing spectral methods designed to study air-sea interactions in global, coupled climate models (see Physical Oceanography and Fluid Mechanics ).
Research
Physical Oceanography and Fluid Mechanics
- Spatio-Temporal Spectral Transfers in fluid dynamics
- Mesoscale Eddies and Air-Sea Interactions...
Biophysics
- Patterns of Scaled Area in Fly Wings
- Compression Induced Fluidization in Vertex Models of Epithelial Tissue
- How to Anisotropically Grow a Vertex Model under Constant External Stress
- Network models for characterization of trabecular bone
Publications
- Avik Mondal, Chantal Nguyen, Xiao Ma, Ahmed E. Elbanna, and Jean M. Carlson. “Network models for characterization of trabecular bone.” Phys. Rev. E 99, 042406 (2019)
In Development
- Avik Mondal*, Andrew J. Morten*, Brian K. Arbic, Glenn R. Flierl, and Robert B. Scott. “Spatio-temporal spectral transfers in fluid dynamics.” Manuscript Under Review at Phys. Rev. Fluids. Arxiv
- Dalmiro Blanco-Obregon, Avik Mondal, Pierre Leopold, David K. Lubensky, Daniel McCusker, Etorre De Giorgio. "Manuscript on imaging Drosophila wing hairs and consequent pattern analysis." Manuscript in Development.