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 Water jet erosion of saturated soils Numerical simulation of saturated soils based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Completed DFG project GR 1024/43-1 “Numerical modelling of water jet induced erosion in saturated sand ” Ongoing DFG project GR 1024/66-1 "Wheel-soil interaction under extreme conditions (WSI-EC)". Applied methods: physical modelling (1g model tests), numerical simulation based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Educational activities Supervised students Publications