publications

Journal articles and theses in reverse chronological order.

Publications, current through 07/2025. Links point to journal pages, PDFs, or thesis records where available.

Journal Articles

2025

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    Isometric and Isoenergetic Everting Motions of Orientable and Nonorientable Bands
    Vikash Chaurasia and Eliot Fried
    Journal of Nonlinear Science, 2025

2024

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    Stable Mobius Bands from Isometrically Deformed Circular Helicoids
    Vikash Chaurasia and Eliot Fried
    Journal of Elasticity, 2024

2023

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    Coronavirus peplomer charge heterogeneity
    Vikash Chaurasia, Mona A. Kanso, Eliot Fried, and 1 more author
    Physics of Fluids, 2023

2022

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    Coronavirus pleomorphism
    Mona A. Kanso, Mohammad Naime, Vikash Chaurasia, and 3 more authors
    Physics of Fluids, 2022

2021

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    Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity
    Mona A. Kanso, Vikash Chaurasia, Eliot Fried, and 1 more author
    Physics of Fluids, 2021

2020

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    Interacting charged elastic loops on a sphere
    Vikash Chaurasia and Eliot Fried
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2020

2017

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    Effect of a surface tension imbalance on a partly submerged cylinder
    Stijn D. Janssens, Vikash Chaurasia, and Eliot Fried
    Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017

In Progress

BODIESReg registration pipeline overview
BODIESReg: An open-source pipeline for registering 3D body scans using pose-aligned initialization
Vikash Chaurasia et al.
Submitted.

Vikash Chaurasia and Eliot Fried. Inside-out motion of mobile linkages.

Theses

2019

  1. Variational Formulation of Charged Curves Confined to a Sphere
    Vikash Chaurasia
    University of Houston, 2019

2014

  1. On Hamiltonian Dynamics of a Chain of Rigid Bodies
    Vikash Chaurasia
    IIT Kanpur, 2014