ACAniruddha
Chowdhury

Selected work

Questions turned into engineering work.

Research and industrial projects, organized around the challenges they address.

8 projects
FHWA-funded doctoral research

Asphalt–polymer compatibility framework

Identify recycled and commercial polymers that can blend with asphalt without phase separation.

Pavement and Infrastructure TechnologyComputational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced MaterialsMechanical Design Engineering
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Industrial improvement

Distillation process capability

Improve the capability of an industrial distillation unit.

Project and Process ManagementMechanical Design EngineeringHVAC and Building Systems
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Manufacturing quality

HVAC assembly validation

Verify functional integrity of bus HVAC sub-assemblies before release.

HVAC and Building SystemsMechanical Design EngineeringProject and Process Management
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FHWA-funded doctoral research

Revised asphalt oxidation model

Represent how asphalt chemistry and polymer compatibility evolve over a binder’s service life.

Pavement and Infrastructure TechnologyComputational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced Materials
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Multiscale simulation

MARTINI 3 coarse-grained asphalt model

Reach time and length scales inaccessible to all-atom models while retaining meaningful asphalt behavior.

Pavement and Infrastructure TechnologyComputational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced Materials
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International collaboration

Waste-derived asphalt rejuvenators

Explain how waste tallow, tire pyrolysis oil and bio-based polyurethane modifiers interact with asphalt fractions.

Pavement and Infrastructure TechnologyComputational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced Materials
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NASA EPSCoR collaboration

Particle-based computational modeling

Develop transferable interaction models for materials systems studied across multiple institutions.

Computational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced Materials
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Louisiana Board of Regents-funded research

Block-copolymer grafted nanoparticles

Analyze lamellar domain spacing in block-copolymer grafted nanoparticles.

Computational Chemistry and SimulationSemiconductor and Advanced Materials
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