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Plant-On-a-Disc (POD): A Phytofluidic platform enabling In Situ Root Analysis
Kaushal Agarwal, Sumit Kumar Mehta, Pranab Kumar Mondal
Phytofluidic platforms have enabled controlled studies of plant roots, however, most existing systems either impose geometric confinement without flow or introduce hydrodynamics in…
Topology-Optimized Pneumatic Soft Actuator: Design and Experimental Validation
Sumit Mehta, Konstantinos Poulios
This paper demonstrates the computational design of soft elastomeric pneumatic actuators using nonlinear topology optimization. An existing density- and porohyperelasticity-based t…
Phytoscale Transport Physics: Insights into Xylem Flow Homeostasis and Drought Stress
Jinmay Kalita, Sumit Kumar Mehta, Suraj Panja +1
We investigate the flow dynamics of nutrient solution through the xylem vessels of Brassica juncea under drought stress. To this end, we perform experiments to obtain morphological…
Unveiling nutrient flow mediated stress in the plant roots using on-chip phytofluidic device
Kaushal Agarwal, Sumit Kumar Mehta, Pranab Kumar Mondal
The initial emergence of the primary root from a germinating seed is a pivotal phase that influences a plant's survival. Abiotic factors such as pH, nutrient availability, and soil…
Wrinkling as a mechanical instability in growing annular hyperelastic plates
Sumit Mehta, Gangadharan Raju, Prashant Saxena
Growth-induced instabilities are ubiquitous in biological systems and lead to diverse morphologies in the form of wrinkling, folding, and creasing. The current work focusses on the…
Instabilities in a compressible hyperelastic cylindrical channel due to internal pressure and external constraints
Sumit Mehta, Gangadharan Raju, Shanmugam Kumar +1
Pressurised cylindrical channels made of soft materials are ubiquitous in biological systems, soft robotics, and metamaterial designs. In this paper, we study large deformation of…
Growth induced instabilities in a circular hyperelastic plate
Sumit Mehta, Gangadharan Raju, Prashant Saxena
In this work, we have explored growth-induced mechanical instability in an isotropic circular hyperelastic plate. Consistent two-dimensional governing equations for a plate under a…