Rahul Somasundaram, M.Sc.

Doctoral candidate

• Visitor address
  
  Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)
  Institute for Geotechnical Engineering and Construction Management (B-5)
  Schellerdamm 22 (Channel 7)
  D-21079 Hamburg
  Germany
  
  Room 1.007
• Phone: +49 40 42878 3816
• e-mail: rahul.somasundaram @ tuhh.de
• Consultation hours by appointment

Research activities

• Completed DFG project GR 1024/43-1 “Numerical modelling of water jet induced erosion in saturated sand” (2021-2024, 36 months)
• Ongoing DFG project GR 1024/66-1 "Wheel-Soil Interaction Under Extreme Conditions (WSI-EC)" (2025-2027, 24 months)
• Methods: Numerical simulation of saturated soils based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) with the in-house 2P-SPH code GADGET-Soil, physical modelling (1g model tests), development of traction-controlled strategies for 4-wheel-drive Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) navigating on loosely sand

Educational activities

• Exercise lecture "Advanced Geotechnical Engineering"
• Exercise lecture "Marine Geotechnics" 

Publications

• Somasundaram R., Williams Riquer F. and J. Grabe (2024): Multi-body simulation of a tracked rover on granular soil using SPH framework. In: Proceedings of 18th SPHERIC International Workshop 2024 in Berlin, Germany, pp. 48–58