Selected Publications:

Robert L. Doney and Surajit Sen,

"Shock Mitigation for Blast Protection using Hertzian Tapered Chains"

Proc of 22nd International Symposium on Ballistics (Banff, Alberta, Canada), in press.

Edgar Avalos, T.R. Krishna Mohan and Surajit Sen,

“Impulse backscattering in granular beds:  toy model versus dynamical simulations,”

Physical Review E (under review)

Adam Sokolow, Jan M.M. Pfannes, Robert L. Doney, Masami Nakagawa, Juan H. Agui and Surajit Sen,

“Absorption of short duration pulses in small tapered chains,”

Applied Physics Letters (accepted)

Robert L. Doney and Surajit Sen,

“Impulse absorption by tapered horizontal alignments of elastic spheres,”

Physical Review E 72, pp 041304 (2005)

Surajit Sen, T.R. Krishna Mohan, Donald P. Visco, Jr., Saravanan Swaminathan, Adam Sokolow, Edgar Avalos and Masami Nakagawa

“Using mechanical energy as a probe for the detection and imaging of shallow buried inclusions in dry granular beds”

International Journal of Modern Physics B 19, No. 18, pp 1-23 (2005, in press) [Invited Review]

Surajit Sen,

“A tutorial on solving the Liouville equation: a formalism and an example,”

Physica A. (in press) [Invited Review]

Surajit Sen, Jan M.M. Pfannes and T.R. Krishna Mohan,

“The quasi-equilibrium state: a tale of certain soundless systems,” J. of Korean Physical Society vol. 46, 571-573 (2005). [Invited contribution to Special Issue]

T.R Krishna Mohan and Surajit Sen,

“A new equilibrium phase in discrete nonlinear chains,”

Pramana – J. of Physics vol. 64, 423-431 (2005). [Invited contribution to Special Issue]

Stephane Job, Francisco Melo, Adam Sokolow and Surajit Sen,

“How Hertzian solitary waves interact with boundaries in a 1D granular medium,”

Physical Review Letters vol. 94, 178002-1-178002-4 (2005).

Surajit Sen, T.R. Krishna Mohan and Jan M.M. Pfannes,

“The quasi-equilibrium phase in nonlinear 1D systems”

Physica A   vol. 342, pp. 336-343 (2004). [Invited contribution to Special Issue].

Surajit Sen, S. Chakravarti, D.P. Visco, Jr., M. Nakagawa, J. Agui, Jr. and D.T. Wu,

“Impulse propagation in granular systems,”

Proceedings of PASI on Modern Challenges in Statistical Mechanics, American Inst of Physics Conference Proceedings, vol. 658, pp. 357-379  Eds. V.M. Kenkre and K. Lindenberg (AIP, New York, 2003).

D.P. Visco, Jr., S. Swaminathan, T.R. Krishna Mohan, Adam Sokolow and Surajit Sen,

“Impulse penetration into idealized granular beds: Behavior of cumulative surface kinetic energy,”

Physical Review E vol. 70, pp 051306-1-051306-7(2004).

T.R. Krishna Mohan and Surajit Sen,

“Impulse backscattering in granular beds: Introducing a toy model,”

Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) vol. 67, pp. 060301-1-060301-4 (R)(2003).

Felicia S. Manciu and Surajit Sen,

"Secondary solitary wave formation in generalized Hertz chains,"

Physical Review E 66, pp. 016616-1 -016616-11 (2002).

Surajit Sen,

“A Proposal for a nonlinear top down model of the brain,”

Surajit Sen,

“Relaxation in nonlinear systems, continued fractions and sensitive relaxation processes,”

Physica A 315, pp. 150-155 (2002) [Invited contribution to Special Issue].

Surajit Sen, Felicia S. Manciu and Marian Manciu,

"Thermalizing an Impulse,"

Physica A 299, pp. 551-558 (2001).

Surajit Sen, Marian Manciu and Felicia S. Manciu,

“Ejection of ferrofluid grains using nonlinear acoustic impulses,”

Applied Physics Letters, 75, pp. 1479-1481 (1999).

Surajit Sen, Marian Manciu and James D. Wright,

“Soliton-like pulses in perturbed and driven Hertzian chains and their possible applications in detecting buried impurities,”

Physical Review E vol. 57, pp. 2386-2397 (1998).

Donald P. Visco, Jr. and Surajit Sen,

“A study of the dynamics of a nonlinear oscillator which is coupled to various model heat baths,”

Physical Review E vol. 58, pp. 1419-1424 (1998).

Surajit Sen and Somnath Pal,

“Avalanche dynamics in model 2D grain piles,”

Physical Review E vol. 56, pp. 5759-5763 (1997).

Surajit Sen, Robert S. Sinkovits and Soumya Chakravarti,

“Algebraic relaxation laws for classical particles in anharmonic potentials,”

Physical Review Letters vol. 77, pp. 4855-4859 (1996).

Surajit Sen and R.S. Sinkovits,

“Sound propagation in impure granular columns,”

Physical Review E vol. 54, pp. 6857-6865 (1996).

Robert S. Sinkovits and Surajit Sen,

“Nonlinear dynamics in granular columns,”

Physical Review Letters vol. 74, pp. 2686-2689 (1995).

Zhi-Xiong Cai, Surajit Sen and S.D. Mahanti,

“Long time dynamics via direct summation of infinite continued fractions,”

Physical Review Letters vol. 68, pp. 1637-1640 (1992).

Surajit Sen,

“Exact solution of the Heisenberg equation of motion for the surface spin in a semi-infinite s=1/2 XY chain at infinite temperatures,”

Physical Review B vol. 44, pp. 7444-7450 (1991).