{"id":28,"date":"2014-06-03T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:39:31","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Welcome to the Kulkarni research group. The focus of our research is on understanding the mechanical response of materials from fundamental scales using statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, atomistic simulations and multi-scale modeling approaches. Some current research topics include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Statistical mechanics of active matter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electromechanical behavior of soft materials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statistical mechanics of fluctuating interfaces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time-scaling in atomistic simulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline intermetallics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><br>Yashashree Kulkarni<br>Bill D. Cook Professor<br>Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\u00a0<br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">University of Houston<\/mark><br>4226 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston, TX 77204<br>Email:\u00a0ykulkarni@uh.edu<br>Phone: (713) 743-3657<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Kulkarni research group. The focus of our research is on understanding the mechanical response of materials from fundamental scales using statistical mechanics, continuum mechanics, atomistic simulations and multi-scale modeling approaches. Some current research topics include: Contact:Yashashree KulkarniBill D. Cook ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering\u00a0University of Houston4226 Martin Luther King Boulevard, Houston,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/\"><span>Read More<\/span><i>&#43;<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ykulkarni.me.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}