Dr. Siva Nasarayya Chari S.

About me

Siva is a simple and friendly person. He is currently working as an Assistant professor, in the Department of physics, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj 211 002. He had his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics, from University of Hyderabad. In addition to Physics, his personal interests include vocal music(filmy, melodious) and yoga.

Research interests

• Statistical Mechanics: Fluctuation theorems, rare events and transient violations of 2nd law
• Boltzmann transport equation, Truncation schemes of BBGKY hierarchy and time reversibility
• Soft Matter: Lennard-Jones binary mixtures of active and passive particles, including glass formers and other related biomolecular systems exhibiting glassy dynamics

Fellowships

• CSIR - JRF conducted by joint UGC & CSIR in June 2008.
• D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellowship in August 2016.

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, University of Hyderabad (2007-15)
  Supervisor: K. P. N. Murthy
  Thesis title: Lattice Boltzmann study of kinetics of ideal and nonideal systems
• Project Assistant at Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc Bangalore (2006-07)
• M.Sc. Physics, University of Hyderabad (2004-06)
• B.Sc.(Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry), Acharya Nagarjuna University (2001-04)

Positions held

• Assistant Professor(on contract) at Department of Physics, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga (Aug 2014 - May 2015)
• Research Associate at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (Apr 2016 - July 2016)
• D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru (Aug 2016 - Aug 2019)
• Research Associate at Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, Bengaluru (Aug 2019 - July 2020)
• Assistant Professor(contractual) at Department of Physics, Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi (Jan 2021 - Apr 2022)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, REVA University, Bengaluru (Apr 2022 - Aug 2022)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj (Aug 2022 - till date)

Publications

1. Study of nonequilibrium work distributions from a fluctuating lattice Boltzmann model ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, K. P. N. Murthy and Ramarao Inguva, Physical Review E 85 (4), 041117 (2012).

2. Study of kinetic equation for non-ideal gases using lattice Boltzmann method: interparticle forces from BBGKY hierarchy ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, Ramarao Inguva and K. P. N. Murthy, Journal of Statistical Physics 157 (1),113-123 (2014).

3. A new truncation scheme for BBGKY hierarchy: conservation of energy and time reversibility ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, Ramarao Inguva and K. P. N. Murthy, arXiv:1608.02338 (2016).

4. Non-equilibrium work distributions from fluctuating lattice Boltzmann model ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari and K. P. N. Murthy, AIP Conference Proceedings 1447 (1),195-196 (2012).

5. Lattice Boltzmann study of kinetic equation derived from BBGKY hierarchy and non-equilibrium work distributions ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari and K. P. N. Murthy, AIP Conference Proceedings 1591 (1), 228-229 (2014).

6. Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Transport Equation, Microscopic Reversibility and Macroscopic Irreversibility ; K. P. N. Murthy and S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, Book Chapter in: Proceedings of international Symposium on Accelerator and Radiation Physics Research (ISARP-2011).

7. Scalar activity induced phase separation and liquid-solid transition in Lennard-Jones system ; S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, Chandan Dasgupta and Prabal K. Maiti, Soft Matter 15, 7275-7285 (2019). DOI: 10.1039/C9SM00962K.

8. Scalar activity induced phase separation and liquid-solid transition in Lennard-Jones system ; Chandan Dasgupta, S. Siva Nasarayya Chari and Prabal K. Maiti, Bulletin of the American Physical Society 65, (2020).

9. Effect of γ-Oryzanol on the LE–LC Phase Coexistence Region of DPPC Langmuir Monolayer; Raghavendra, Bharat Kumar, and S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, The Journal of Membrane Biology , (2023).