Varun Shankar portrait
  • Associate Director, Master of Software Development Program, School Of Computing
  • Assistant Professor, School Of Computing
  • Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Department of Mathematics, Boise State University

Publications

  • Raman Sharma & Varun Shankar (2022). Accelerated Training of Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) using Meshless Discretizations. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol. 35, 1034-1046. Published, 12/06/2022.
  • Andrew Kassen, Aaron Barrett, Varun Shankar & Aaron L Fogelson (2022). Immersed boundary simulations of cell-cell interactions in whole blood. Journal of Computational Physics. Vol. 469. Published, 11/15/2022.
  • M Keith Ballard, Endel Iarve, John Whitcomb, Varun Shankar, Hari Sundar, Lauren Ferguson, Mike Kirby & David Mollenhauer (2022). Remaining Challenges in the Application of High-Performance Computing to a Process-to-Performance Pipeline for Textile Composites. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COMPOSITES-THIRTY-SEVENTH TECHNICAL CONFERENCE. Published, 07/01/2022.
  • Andrew Kassen, Varun Shankar & Aaron L Fogelson (2022). A fine-grained parallelization of the immersed boundary method. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Vol. 36. Published, 07/01/2022.
  • Varun Shankar & Grady B. Wright, Aaron L. Fogelson (2021). An efficient high-order meshless method for advection-diffusion equations on time-varying irregular domains. Journal of Computational Physics. Published, 11/15/2021.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
  • Hallie Elich & Aaron Barret, Varun Shankar, Aaron Fogelson (2021). Pump efficacy in a two-dimensional, fluid–structure interaction model of a chain of contracting lymphangions. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. Published, 06/17/2021.
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10237-0...
  • MK Ballard & Roman Amici, Varun Shankar, Lauren Ferguson, Michael Braginsky, Robert M Kirby (2021). Towards an extrinsic, CG-XFEM approach based on hierarchical enrichments for modeling progressive fracture. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. Published, 01/01/2021.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/...
  • Varun Shankar, Grady B. Wright & Akil Narayan (2020). A robust hyperviscosity formulation for stable RBF-FD discretizations of advection-diffusion-reaction equations on manifolds. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Vol. 42. Published, 08/17/2020.
    https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/19M1288747
  • SD Lawley & Varun Shankar (2020). Asymptotic and numerical analysis of a stochastic PDE model of volume transmission. SIAM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. Vol. 18, 29. Published, 05/26/2020.
    https://doi.org/10.1137/18M1230773
  • MK Ballard, Roman Amici, Varun Shankar & Robert M. Kirby (2019). A preliminary assessment of a new XFEM framework for predicting complex fracture. Engineers Australia. Published, 08/16/2019.
  • Varun Shankar & Akil Narayan, Robert M. Kirby (2018). RBF-LOI: Augmenting Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) with Least Orthogonal Interpolation (LOI) for solving PDEs on surfaces. Journal of Computational Physics. Vol. 373, 722-735. Published, 11/15/2018.
  • Varun Shankar & Aaron Fogelson (2018). Hyperviscosity-Based Stabilization for Radial Basis Function-Finite Difference (RBF-FD) Discretizations of Advection-Diffusion Equations. Journal of Computational Physics. Vol. 372, 616-639. Published, 11/01/2018.
  • Varun Shankar & Robert M. Kirby, Aaron L. Fogelson (2018). Robust Node Generation for Mesh-free Discretizations on Irregular Domains and Surfaces. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. Vol. 40, A2584-A2608. Published, 08/21/2018.
  • Varun Shankar & Grady B. Wright (2018). Mesh-free semi-Lagrangian methods for transport on a sphere using radial basis functions. Journal of Computational Physics. Vol. 366, 170-190. Published, 08/01/2018.
  • Santosh Pokhrel & Varun Shankar, Jamesina J. Simpson (2018). 3-D FDTD Modeling of Electromagnetic Wave Propagration in Magnetized Plasma Requiring Singular Updates to the Current Density Equation. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Published, 06/2018.
  • Vidhi Zala & Varun Shankar, Shankar P. Sastry, Robert M. Kirby (2018). Curvilinear Mesh Rectification using Radial Basis Function Interpolation and Smoothing. Journal of Scientific Computing. Published, 04/2018.
  • Santosh Pokhrel & Varun Shankar, Jamesina J. Simpson (2018). Simplified FDTD model of electromagnetic wave propagation in magnetized plasma. Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society Symposium (ACES). Published, 03/2018.