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Prof. Pato Kumari
PROFESSOR
pato.kumari@jiit.ac.in
Biography

Dr. Pato Kumari is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India. She is recognized for her expertise in mathematical modeling, with a special focus on seismic wave propagation through complex geomedia. She earned her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, and has authored over 50 research articles in reputed international journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, SAGE, AIP, and ASCE. Her research work has been recognized with awards and has also served as a Visiting Scientist at the Centre for Excellence, Panjab University. Currently, Dr. Kumari leads the DRDO-funded project SEISMAL under the Armament Research Board, Government of India. She has successfully supervised three doctoral theses and one postgraduate dissertation, with another Ph.D. scholar presently under her guidance. An active contributor to the academic community, she has delivered invited and keynote lectures and jointly organized five international conferences in the RAMSA series, editing five Scopus-indexed proceedings in collaboration with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), USA. She is also a reviewer for leading journals from Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and SAGE. Dr. Kumari is associated with several professional bodies, including the Indian Science Congress Association, the Indian Mathematical Society, and the Von Karman Society for Advanced Mathematics.

Research Highlights

Dr. Kumari conducts research in the field of seismic wave propagation, integrating principles from mathematics, physics, and geology to investigate wave behaviour in complex geomedia. Her work contributes to advancing seismological understanding by analyzing wave motion in elastic media with varied material properties, anisotropy, and irregular geometries. She has addressed a broad range of problems, including SH-wave propagation in irregular monoclinic and viscoelastic layers, wave transmission through infinite media, and the dynamics of G-type waves in homogeneous isotropic and viscoelastic layers over non-homogeneous half-spaces. Her studies have also examined stress generation in irregular isotropic half-spaces due to moving loads on rough free surfaces, and the three-dimensional reflection and refraction of quasi-waves in triclinic media with corrugated interfaces. To solve these complex problems, Dr. Kumari employs advanced mathematical techniques such as separation of variables, perturbation methods, Green’s functions, transformation methods, generalized Snell’s law, Fourier and Laplace transforms, and the Wiener–Hopf technique, enabling exact or closed-form solutions. Her investigations extend to layered fluid–solid systems, isotropic media, and self-reinforcing materials, often incorporating intermediate layers with varying anisotropy. Her recent work focuses on wave reflection and transmission in irregular anisotropic media, estimation of ground shock parameters during underground blast, the propagation of SH and torsional waves under varied geophysical conditions, dynamic responses to moving loads in irregular non-homogeneous self-reinforced materials, and crack propagation in magnetoelastic orthotropic strips. Through these studies, Dr. Kumari continues to contribute significantly to the theoretical and applied understanding of seismic wave phenomena in realistic geological settings.

Areas Of Interest
  • Elastodynamics
  • Seismic Wave propagation
  • Underground Blast Modelling
Publications
  1. Kumari P. and Payal, Impact of Electro-Mechanical Interfacial Imperfection on Rayleigh Wave Propagation in Piezo-Self-Reinforced Layered Structure Under Gravity, Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies, 12, 2121-2146, 2024.
  2. Kumari P. and Srivastava R., Parametric study of stresses induced due to moving load on irregular interface of self-reinforced layer over isotropic substratum, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 46, 28, 2024.
  3. Kumari P. and Srivastava R., Coupled impact of irregularity and magnetoelasticity on crack propagation in orthotropic strip, The European Physical Journal Plus, 138 (8), 1-16, 2023.
  4. Kumari P. and Payal, Analysis of integrated effect of irregularity and corrugated interfaces of doubly layered half space on torsional surface wave propagation, Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 46(16), 17557–17580, 2023.
  5. Kumari P. and Neha, On quasi-seismic wave propagation in highly anisotropic triclinic layer between distinct semi-infinite triclinic geomedia, Applied Mathematical Modelling 91, 815-836, 2021