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Textbook

Introduction to Mechanics of Solid Materials
Lallit Anand, Ken Kamrin, and Sanjay Govindjee
Oxford University Press (2022)

Journal Articles

A hybrid discrete and continuum framework for multiscale modeling of granular media
Maytee Chantharayukhonthorn, Peter Yichen Chen, Yonghao Yue, Eitan Grinspun, and Ken Kamrin
Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., 441, 117936 (2025)

Experimentally validated DEM for large deformation powder compaction: Mechanically-derived contact model and screening of non-physical contacts
William Zunker, Sachith Dunatunga, Subhash Thakur, Pingjun Tang, and Ken Kamrin
Powder Tech., 459, 120972 (2025)

A Study Demonstrating That Using Gravitational Offset to Prepare Extraterrestrial Mobility Missions Is Misleading
Wei Hu, Pei Li, Arno Rogg, Alexander Schepelmann, Samuel Chandler, Ken Kamrin, and Dan Negrut
J. Field Robotics (2025)

Discrete simulations of fluid‐driven transport of naturally shaped sediment particles
Qiong Zhang, Eric Deal, J Taylor Perron, Jeremy G Venditti, Santiago J Benavides, Matthew Rushlow, and Ken Kamrin
J. Geophys. Res.: Earth Surface, 130:5, e2024JF007937 (2025)

Unified Eulerian method for fluid-immersed self-and multi-body solid contact
Teo Lara and Ken Kamrin
Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., 437, 117745 (2025)

Clarifying the representation of isotropic symmetric tensor-valued functions of two symmetric tensors
Ken Kamrin and Sanjay Govindjee
Math. and Mech. of Solids, 10812865251340424 (2024)

Transient stress and fabric model for quasi-static granular flows in three dimensions
Eduardo Rojas and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 21:15, 2896-2908 (2025)

Mixed material point method formulation, stabilization, and validation for a unified analysis of free-surface and seepage flow
Bodhinanda Chandra, Ryota Hashimoto, Ken Kamrin, and Kenichi Soga
J. Comp. Phys., 519, 113457 (2024)

Stabilized mixed material point method for incompressible fluid flow analysis
Bodhinanda Chandra, Ryota Hashimoto, Shinnosuke Matsumi, Ken Kamrin, and Kenichi Soga
Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., 419, 116644 (2024)

A mechanically-derived contact model for adhesive elastic-perfectly plastic particles, Part II: Contact under high compaction—modeling a bulk elastic response
William Zunker and Ken Kamrin
J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 183, 105493 (2024)

A mechanically-derived contact model for adhesive elastic-perfectly plastic particles, Part I: Utilizing the method of dimensionality reduction
William Zunker and Ken Kamrin
J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 183, 105492 (2024)

Advances in modeling dense granular media
Ken Kamrin, Kimberly Hill, Dan Goldman, and Jose Andrade
Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 56:1, 215-240 (2024)

Analysis and mitigation of spatial integration errors for the material point method
Aaron Baumgarten and Ken Kamrin
Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 124:11, 2449-2497 (2023)

How fast or how many? Sources of intermittent sediment transport
Santiago J Benavides, Eric Deal, Jeremy G Venditti, Ryan Bradley, Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and J Taylor Perron
Geophys. Res. Lett., 50:9, e2022GL101919 (2023)

Detecting hidden structures from a static loading experiment: topology optimization meets physics-informed neural networks
Saviz Mowlavi and Ken Kamrin
arXiv e-prints, 2303:09280

Mechanistic framework for reduced-order models in soft materials: Application to three-dimensional granular intrusion
Shashank Agarwal, Dan Goldman, and Ken Kamrin
PNAS 120:4, e2214017120 (2023)

A second-order non-local model for granular flows
Seongmin Kim and Ken Kamrin
Front. Phys., 11, 1092233 (2023)

Grain shape effects in bed load sediment transport
Eric Deal, Jeremy G Venditti, Santiago J Benavides, Ryan Bradley, Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and J Taylor Perron
Nature, 613:7943, 298-302 (2023)

Fluid‐driven transport of round sediment particles: From discrete simulations to continuum modeling
Qiong Zhang, Eric Deal, Taylor Perron, Jeremy Venditti, Santiago Benavides, Matthew Rushlow, and Ken Kamrin
J. Geophys. Res.: Earth Surface, 127:7, e2021JF006504 (2022)

Modelling silo clogging with non-local granular rheology
Sachith Dunatunga and Ken Kamrin
J. Fluid Mech., 940, A14 (2022)

The impact of intermittency on bed load sediment transport
Santiago J Benavides, Eric Deal, Matthew Rushlow, Jeremy G Venditti, Qiong Zhang, Ken Kamrin, and J Taylor Perron
Geophys. Res. Lett., 49:5, e2021GL096088 (2022)

An incompressible Eulerian method for fluid–structure interaction with mixed soft and rigid solids
Xiaolin Wang, Ken Kamrin, and Chris Rycroft
Physics of Fluids, 34:3, 033604 (2022)

Interplay Between Hysteresis and Nonlocality During Onset and Arrest of Flow in Granular Materials
Saviz Mowlavi and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 17, 7359-7375 (2021)

Modeling Granular Material Dynamics and its Two-Way Coupling with Moving Solid Bodies Using a Continuum Representation and the SPH Method
Wei Hu, Milad Rakhsha, Lijing Yang, Ken Kamrin, and Dan Negrut
CMAME, 385, 114022 (2021)

Surprising Simplicity in the Modeling of Dynamic Granular Intrusion
Shashank Agarwal, Andras Karsai, Dan Goldman, and Ken Kamrin
Science Advances, 7:17, eabe0631 (2021)

A Coupled Finite Volume and Material Point Method for Two-Phase Simulation of Liquid-Sediment and Gas-Sediment Flows
Aaron Baumgarten, Ben Couchman, and Ken Kamrin
CMAME, 384, 113940 (2021)

Efficacy of Simple Continuum Models for Diverse Granular Intrusions
Shashank Agarwal, Andras Karsai, Dan Goldman, and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 17, 7196-7209 (2021)

Hybrid Discrete-Continuum Modeling of Shear Localization in Granular Media
Peter Chen, Maytee Chantharayukhonthorn, Yonghao Yue, Eitan Grinspun, and Ken Kamrin
J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 153, 104404 (2021)

Contact Model for Elastically Anisotropic Bodies and Efficient Implementation into the Discrete Element Method
Saviz Mowlavi and Ken Kamrin
Gran. Mat., 23:2, 129 (2021)

Expanded Scaling Relations for Locomotion in Sloped or Cohesive Granular Beds
Qiong Zhang, Stephen Townsend, and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. Fluids, 5, 114301 (2020)

Power-Law Scaling in Granular Rheology across Flow Geometries
Seongmin Kim and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. Lett. (Editor’s Suggestion), 125, 088002 (2020)

Reference Map Technique for Incompressible Fluid-Structure Interaction
Chris Rycroft, Chen-Hung Wu, Yue Yu, and Ken Kamrin
J. Fluid Mech., 898, A9 (2020)

Quantitative Rheological Model for Granular Materials: The Importance of Particle Size
Ken Kamrin
Book Chapter: Handbook of Materials Modeling, Volume 2, 153-176 (2020)

Mitigating Memory Effects During Undulatory Locomotion on Hysteretic Materials
Perrin Schiebel, Henry Astley, Jennifer Rieser, Shashank Agarwal, Christian Hubicki, Alex Hubbard, Kelimar Diaz, Joseph Mendelson III, Ken Kamrin, Daniel I Goldman
Elife, 9, e51412 (2020)

Modeling Stress Relaxation in Dense, Fine-Particle Suspensions
Aaron Baumgarten and Ken Kamrin
J. Rheology, 64:2, 367-377 (2020)

A General Constitutive Model for Fine-Particle Suspensions Validated in Many Flow Regimes
Aaron Baumgarten and Ken Kamrin
PNAS, 116:42, 20828-20836 (2019)

A Conservative and Non-Dissipative Eulerian Formulation for the Simulation of Soft Solids in Fluids
Suhas Jain, Ken Kamrin, and Ali Mani
J. Comput. Phys., 399, 1008922 (2019)

Capturing Transient Granular Rheology with Extended Fabric Tensor Relations
Eduardo Rojas and Ken Kamrin
Gran. Mat., 21, 89 (2019)

Modeling the Interaction of Rigid Wheels with Dry Granular Media
Shashank Agarwal, Carmine Senatore, Tingnan Zhang, Mark Kingsbury, Karl Iagnemma, Dan I. Goldman, Ken Kamrin
J. Terramechanics, 85,1-14 (2019)

Non-locality in Granular Flow: Phenomenology and Modeling Approaches
Ken Kamrin
Front. Phys., 7,116 (2019)

Dissipation Potentials from Elastic Collapse
Joe Goddard and Ken Kamrin
Proc. Roy. Soc. A., 475, 20190144 (2019)

A Buckling Flexure-Based Force-Limiting Mechanism,
Jonathan Slocum, Ken Kamrin, and Alex Slocum
J. Mechanisms Robotics., 11, 041004 (2019)

A General Fluid-Sediment Mixture Model and Constitutive Theory Validated in Many Flow Regimes
Aaron Baumgarten and Ken Kamrin
J. Fluid Mech., 861, 721-764 (2019)

Hybrid Grains: Adaptive Coupling of Discrete and Continuum Simulations of Granular Materials
Yonghao Yue, Breannan Smith, Peter Yichen Chen, Maytee Chantharayukhonthorn, Ken Kamrin, Eitan Grinspun
ACM Trans. Graph., 37:6, 283:1-283:19, (2018)

Resolving Force Indeterminacy in Contact Dynamics Using Compatibility Conditions
Tyler Olsen and Ken Kamrin
Gran. Mat., 20, 69 (2018)

Simulation Technique for Slurries Interacting with Moving Parts and Deformable Solids with Applications
Patrick Mutabaruka and Ken Kamrin
Comp. Part. Mech., 5(2), 239-267 (2018)

General Scaling Relations for Locomotion in Granular Media
James Slonaker, D. Carrington Motley, Qiong Zhang, Stephen Townsend, Carmine Senatore, Karl Iagnemma, and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. E, 95, 052901 (2017)

A Microscopic Description of the Granular Fluidity Field in Nonlocal Flow Modeling
Qiong Zhang and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 058001 (2017)

A Hierarchy of Granular Flow Models: Why Flowing Grains are Both Simple and Complex
Ken Kamrin
EPJ Web of Conferences, 140, 01007 (2017)

Continuum Modeling of Projectile Impact and Penetration in Dry Granular Media
Sachith Dunatunga and Ken Kamrin
 J. Mech. Phys. Solids., 100, 45-60 (2017)

Intrusion Rheology in Grains and Other Flowable Materials
Hesam Askari and Ken Kamrin
Nature Materials, 15, 1274-1279 (2016)

Coupled Dynamics of Flow, Microstructure, and Conductivity in Sheared Suspensions
Tyler Olsen, Ahmed Helal, Gareth McKinley, and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 12, 7688-7697 (2016)

Mechanistic Origin of the Ultra Strong Adhesion between Graphene and a-SiO2: Beyond van der Waals
Sandeep Kumar, David Parks, and Ken Kamrin
ACS Nano, 10(7), 6552-6562 (2016)

CASL Structural Mechanics Modeling of Grid to Rod Fetting
Wei Lu, M. D. Thouless, Zupan Hu, Hai Wang, Ramin Ghelichi, Chen-Hung Wu, Ken Kamrin, and David Parks
JOM, 68(11), 2922-2929, (2016)

A Finite-Element Implementation of the Nonlocal Granular Rheology
David Henann and Ken Kamrin
Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 108, 273-302 (2016)

Modeling Growth Paths of Interacting Crack Pairs In Elastic Media
Ramin Ghelichi and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 11, 7995 (2015)

Continuum Modelling and Simulation of Granular Flows Throuh Their Many Phases
Sachith Dunatunga and Ken Kamrin
J. Fluid. Mech., 779, 483-513 (2015)

Modeling Tensorial Conductivity of Particle Suspension Networks
Tyler Olsen and Ken Kamrin
Soft Matter, 11, 3875-3883 (2015)

Eulerian Method for Multiphase Interactions of Soft Solid Bodies in Fluids
Boris Valkov, Chris Rycroft, and Ken Kamrin
J. Appl. Mech., 82:4, 041011 (2015)

Nonlocal Modeling of Granular Flows Down Inclines
Ken Kamrin and David Henann
Soft Matter, 11:1, 179-185 (2015)

Two-Temperature Continuum Thermomechanics of Deforming Amorphous Solids
Ken Kamrin and Eran Bouchbinder
J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 73, 269-288 (2014)

Symmetry Relations In Vicoplastic Drag Laws
Ken Kamrin and Joe D. Goddard
Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 470:2172, 20140434 (2014)

Continuum Modeling of Secondary Rheology in Dense Granular Materials
David Henann and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. Lett., 113, 178001 (2014)

Continuum Thermomechanics of the Nonlocal Granular Rheology
David Henann and Ken Kamrin
Int. J. Plasticity, 60, 145-162 (2014)

Effect of Particle Surface Friction on Nonlocal Constitutive Behavior of Flowing Granular Media
Ken Kamrin and Georg Koval
Comp. Part. Mech., 1:2, 169-176 (2014)

Small-Amplitude Acoustics in Bulk Granular Media
David Henann, John Valenza, David Johnson, and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Rev. E, 88, 042205 (2013)

A Predictive, Size-Dependent Continuum Model for Dense Granular Flows
David Henann and Ken Kamrin
PNAS, 110:17, 6730-6735 (2013)

Some Exact Properties of the Effective Slip Over Surfaces with Hydrophobic Patternings
Pierre Six and Ken Kamrin
Phys. Fluids, 25, 021703 (2013)

Reference Map Technique for Finite-Strain Elasticity and Fluid-Solid Interaction
Ken Kamrin, Chris H. Rycroft, and Jean-Christophe Nave
J. Mech. Phys. Solids  60, 1952-1969 (2012)

Nonlocal Constitutive Relation for Steady Granular Flow
Ken Kamrin and Georg Koval
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 178301 (2012)

Soft Catenaries
Ken Kamrin and L. Mahadevan
J. Fluid Mech., 691, 165-177 (2012)

The Symmetry of Mobility Laws for Viscous Flow Along Arbitrarily Patterned Surfaces
Ken Kamrin and Howard A. Stone
Phys. Fluids, 23, 031701 (2011)

Effective Slip Boundary Conditions for Arbitrary Periodic Surfaces:  The Surface Mobility Tensor
Ken Kamrin, Martin Z. Bazant, and Howard A. Stone
J. Fluid Mech., 658, 409-437 (2010)

Nonlinear Elasto-Plastic Model for Dense Granular Flow
Ken Kamrin
Int. J. Plasticity, 26, 167-188 (2010)

Assessing Continuum Postulates in Simulations of Granular Flow
Chris H. Rycroft, Ken Kamrin, Martin Z. Bazant
J. Mech. Phys. Solids  57:5, 828-839 (2009)

Stochastic and Deterministic Models for Dense Granular Flow
Ken Kamrin, PhD Thesis, MIT, June 2008

The Stochastic Flow Rule: A Multi-Scale Model for Granular Plasticity
Ken Kamrin, Chris H. Rycroft, and Martin Z. Bazant
Modelling Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 15, S449-S464 (2007)

Stochastic Flow Rule for Granular Materials
Ken Kamrin and Martin Z. Bazant
Phys. Rev. E 75, 041301 (2007)

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