Dr. Raushan Singh received his Ph.D. in 2019 from IIT Delhi, India. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate (2019-2023) at the Institute of Mathematics, EPFL-Lausanne, Switzerland, before joining IIT Madras.
His current research interests include mechanics of rod-like flexible slender structures and sequence-dependent DNA statistical mechanics.
Sequence-Dependent DNA Statistical Mechanics and Modelling
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of DNA and Nucleic Acids
Mechanics of Flexible Slender Structures
High-Performance Computing and High-Throughput Computational Modelling
Awarded the distinction in doctoral research by IIT Delhi (2019)
Best poster award at Indo-German Workshop on Solid Mechanics (2018)
Research Excellence Travel Award by IIT Delhi (2018)
Current Courses
ME5204 - Finite Element Analysis
Previous Courses
ID6023 - Geometry and Mechanics of Materials
ME5204 - Finite Element Analysis
ME2200 - Materials and Design
ME6236 - Mechanics of Slender Structures
ME5201 - Computational Methods in Engineering
ME2200 - Materials and Design
ME5281 - Mechanical Design Laboratory
cgNA+ min: computation of sequence-dependent dsDNA energy-minimizing minicircles. Singh, R., Glowacki, J., Beaud, M., Padovano, F., Manning, R. S., Maddocks, J. H. Nucleic Acids Research 54, no. 9: gkag398 (2026).
Singh, R., Arora, A., & Kumar, A. (2022). A computational framework to obtain nonlinearly elastic constitutive relations of special Cosserat rods with surface energy. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 398, 115256.
Corazza, G., & Singh, R. (2022). Unraveling looping efficiency of stochastic Cosserat polymers. Physical Review Research, 4(1), 013071.
Singh, R., Tiwari, J., & Kumar, A. (2021). Self-contact in closed and open Kirchhoff rods. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 137, 103786.
Singh, R., & Kumar, A. (2020). A singularity free approach for Kirchhoff rods having uniformly distributed electrostatic charge. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 367, 113133.
Singh, R., Singh, P., & Kumar, A. (2019). Unusual extension–torsion–inflation couplings in pressurized thin circular tubes with helical anisotropy. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 24(9), 2694-2712.
Singh, R., Abhishek, D., & Kumar, A. (2018). An asymptotic numerical method for continuation of spatial equilibria of special Cosserat rods. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 334, 167-182.
Singh, R., Kumar, S., & Kumar, A. (2017). Effect of intrinsic twist and orthotropy on extension–twist–inflation coupling in compressible circular tubes. Journal of Elasticity, 128(2), 175-201.
