Education

BTech Civil Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras (July 1998)

MS Applied Mechanics

California Institute of Technology (June 1999)

PhD Applied Mechanics

California Institute of Technology (January 2004)

Honours

Publications

A generalised Cahn-Hilliard equation incorporating geometrically linear elasticity (2011)
Thomas Blesgen, Isaac V. Chenchiah
Interfaces and Free Boundaries vol: 13 , Issue: 1 , Pages: 1 - 27
DOI: 10.4171/IFB/246
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The relaxation of two-well energies with possibly unequal moduli (2008)
Isaac V. Chenchiah, Kaushik Bhattacharya
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis vol: 187 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 409 - 479
DOI: 10.1007/s00205-007-0075-3
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Research Interests

Mathematical problems in solid mechanics and materials science

Statics and dynamics of microstructures and phase transitions in solids

Applications of non-convex calculus of variations and partial differential equations

Research Themes

• Materials Science
• Analysis and Partial Differential Equations