Publications

BOOKS

K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo: Basics, ISRP/TD-3, XI+66 pages; 16 figures; 9 tables; Indian Society for Radiation Physics, February, 2000. K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics Universities Press (India) Private Limited,distributed by Orient Longmann Private Limited. ISBN 81 7371 499 1 XV+128 pages; 12 figures; 6 tables; pbk; Rs. 195/- First Published 2004. K. P. N. Murthy, Excursion in Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Universities Press (India) Private Limited, 2009 D.Jayasri, K. P. N. Murthy and V. S. S. Sastry, Monte Carlo Studies of Liquid Crystalline Systems : Application of non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo methods to complex liquid crystalline models Lambert Academic Publishing (2012).

REPORTS

K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar Singh, Fission Product Decay Power after Fast Neutron Fissions in U235, U238 and Pu239: Calculations and Comparison with Experiments, Report RRC-15, Reactor Research Centre (1976). R. Indira and K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo Simulation of Benchmark Experiments on Neutron Transport through thick Sodium, Report RRC - 48, Reactor Research Centre (1981).

JOURNALS

M.S. Kalyan, K. P. N. Murthy Force induced melting of DNA hairpin: A Monte Carlo study, AIP Conference Proceedings 1512 , 144 (2013). S. S. N Chari, K. P. N. Murthy, R. Inguva Study of nonequilibrium work distributions from a fluctuating lattice Boltzmann model Physical Review E 85 (4), 041117 (2012). N. Shankaraiah, K. P. N. Murthy, T. Lookman, S. R. Shenoy Athermal Martensites, Temperature-Time-Transformation Diagrams and Thermal Hysteresis: Monte Carlo Simulations of Strain Pseudospins Diffusion and Defect Data-Solid State Data-Part B-Solid State Phenomena 1664 (2012) (in Press) Available online 17 March 2012. N. Shankaraiah, K. P. N. Murthy, T. Lookman, S. R. Shenoy Athermal Martensites, Temperature-Time-Transformation Diagrams and Thermal Hysteresis: Monte Carlo Simulations of Strain Pseudospins Diffusion and Defect Data-Solid State Data-Part B-Solid State Phenomena 1664 (2012). K. P. N. Murthy, GM Schtz Mean bubble formation time in DNA denaturation ,Europhysics Letters 96 (6), 68003 (2011). D Jayasri, T Sairam, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Liquid crystal films on curved surfaces: An entropic sampling study, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 4549 (2011). G S Preeti, K. P. N. Murthy, V S S Sastry, C Chiccoli, P Pasini, R Berardi, and C Zannoni, Does the isotropicbiaxial nematic transition always exist? A new topology for the biaxial nematic phase diagram, Soft Matter 7 11483 (2011). N Shankaraiah, K. P. N. Murthy, T Lookman, and S R Shenoy, Monte Carlo simulations of strain pseudo-spins: Athermal martensites, incubation times, and entropy barriers, Physical Review B84 64119 (2011). C Sandhya, K H Bindu, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry Phase Transition in a Bond Fluctuating Linear Homo Polymer, AIP Conference Proceedings 1349 117 (2011). S C R Roshan, L Kunduru, R Jose, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Azimuthal Bistability in Patterened Nematic Liquid Crystal Films: A Monte Carlo Study, AIP Conference Proceedings 1349, 178 (2011). L Kunduru, S C R Roshan, B K Latha, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Polymer Network Induced Ordering in Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals: A Monte Carlo Study, AIP Conference Proceedings 1349 182 (2011). R Jose, D Jayasri, S Dhara, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Effect of External Field on the Nematic to Isotropic Transition: An Entropic Sampling Study, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 545 (1), 168/[1392]-175/[1399] (2011). B K Latha, G S Preeti, N Satyavathi, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Anchoring Transitions in Biaxial Nematic Droplets: A Monte Carlo Study, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 545 (1), 230/[1454]- 241/[1465] (2011). M Ponmurugan, V Sridhar, S L Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, flatIGW - an inverse algorithm to compute the Density of States of lattice Self Avoiding Walks, Physica A 390 1258 (2011). M Suman Kalyan, G Anjan Prasad, V S S Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, A Note on Non-Equilibrium Work Fluctuations, Physica A 390 1240 (2011). N Shankaraiah, K. P. N. Murthy, T. Lookmann and S R. Shenoy, Incubation times and entropy barrier in martensitic kinetics : Monte Carlo quench simulations of strain pseudo spins, Europhysics Letters, 92 36002 (2010). Samrat L. Sabat, Siba K. Udgata and K. P. N. Murthy, Small Signal Parameter Extraction of MESFET using Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization, Microelectronics Reliability 50, 199 (2010). M Suman Kalyan, G Anjan prasad, V S S Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Equilibrium Free Energies, Solid State Physics (India) 54, 525 (2009). G. Sai Preeti, N Satyavathi, K. P. N. Murthy and V S S Sastry, Anchoring Transition and Influence of Director Fluctuations in Liquid Crystal Droplets, Liquid Crystals 36, 1379 (2009) C. Chiccoli, S. P. Gouripeddi (G. Sai Preeti), P. Pasini , K. P. N. Murthy, V.S.S. Sastry, and C. Zannoni, Hybrid Nematic Films: A detailed Monte Carlo investigation, Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 500 118 (2009). S. Mandal, P. V. Sivaprasad, S. Venugopal and K. P. N. Murthy, Artificial Neural Network Modeling to evaluate and predict the deformation behaviour of stainless steel type AISI304L during hot torsion, Applied Soft Computing, 9 237 (2009) D Jayasri, N Satyavathi, V S S Sastry, K. P. N. Murthy Phase transition in liquid crystal elastomersA Monte Carlo study employing non- Boltzmann sampling Physica A388 385 (2009) S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, M. Ponmurugan, and K. P. N. Murthy, A growth walk model for estimating canonical partition function of interacting self avoiding walk, Journal Chemical Physics 128 14105 (2008). M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, A flat histogram method for interacting self avoiding walks, Computational Materials Science, 44 36 (2008). D. Jayasri, V. S. S. Sastry, and K. P. N. Murthy, Effect of crosslink density on the nematic - isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal elastomers Computational Materials Science, 44, 185 (2008). G. Sai Preeti, V. Vijay Kumar, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo study of radial and axial ordering in cylindrical films of liquid crystal, Computational Materials Science, 44, 180 (2008). S. Mandal, P. V. Sivaprasad, S. Venugopal, K. P. N. Murthy and Baldev Raj, Artificial neural network modeling of composition-process- property correlations in austenitic stainless steels, Materials science and Engineering A 485, 571 (2008). D. Jayasri, T. Sairam, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Surface Anchoring in Thin Nematic Films: A Multi-Canonical Monte Carlo Study, Solid State Physics (India) 52, 191 (2007). G. Sai Preeti, N. Satyavathi, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Anchoring Transition and Director Fluctuations in Liquid Crystal Droplets, Solid State Physics (India) 52, 227 (2007). K. P. N. Murthy, Josiah Willard Gibbs and his Ensembles, Resonance 12, 12 (2007). M. Ponmurugan, S. L. Narasimhan P. S. R. Krishna and K. P. N. Murthy, Coil-Globule transition of a single short polymer chain - an exact enumeration study, Journal Chemical Physics, 126, 144906 (2007) T. Pramananda Perumal, V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy, K. S. Easwarakumar and S. Ramasamy, Molecular dynamics simulations of oxygen ion diffusion and super-ionic conduction in ytterbia-stabilized zirconia, Computational Materials Science, 38, 865 (2007). T. Karthikeyan, Arup Dasgupta, P. Magudapathy, S. Saroja, M. Vijayalakshmi, K. G. M. Nair, K. P. N. Murthy, and Baldev Raj, Micro-structure, micro-chemistry and prediction of long term diffusion behaviour of chloride in concrete, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 15, 581 (2006) M. Ponmurugan, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, Is Kinetic Growth Walk equivalent to canonical Self Avoiding Walk ? Physica A 371, 171 (2006). Sumantra Mandal, P.V. Sivaprasad, K. P. N. Murthy and Baldev Raj, Modeling the hot deformation behavior of a 15Cr-15Ni-2.2Mo-Ti modified austenitic stainless steel using artificial neural network, Metals, Materials & Processes, 18 169 (2006). Sumantra Mandal, P. V. Sivaprasad, S. Venugopal and K. P. N. Murthy, Constitutive flow behaviour of austenitic stainless steels under hot deformation: artificial neural network modeling to understand, evaluate and predict, Modeling and Simulations in Materials Science and Engineering, 14, 1053 (2006) S. L. Narasimhan, Joseph A. Nathan, P. S. R. Krishna and K. P. N. Murthy, A formalism for studying long range correlations in many alphabets sequences, Physica A 367, 252 (2006) M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, Entropy of Interacting Self Avoiding Walks, Solid State Physics (India), 51, 97 (2006) T. Pramananda Perumal, V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy, K. S. Eswarakumar and S. Ramasamy, Molecular dynamics simulations of oxygen ion diffusion in samaria-stabilized zirconia, Solid State Physics (India), 51, 703 (2006) K. P. N. MurthyMonte Carlo techniques in statistical physics Statistical Mechanics of Plasticity and Related Instabilities 1, 18 D. Jayasri, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Wang-Landau Monte Carlo Simulation of isotropic - nematic transition in liquid crystals, Physical Review E 72, 036702 (2005). K. P. N. Murthy, R. Harish and S. V. M. Sathyanarayana, Statistical methods in nonlinear dynamics, Pramana-Journal of Physics 64, 353 (2005). S. L. Narasimhan, Joseph A. Nathan, and K. P. N. Murthy, Can coarse-graining introduce long-range correlations in a symbolic sequence ? Europhysics Letters 69, 22 (2005). M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, Study of Phase Transition through Contact Scaling of Interacting Growth Walk, Solid State Physics (India) 50, 77 (2005). T. Pramananda Perumal, V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy, K. S. Eswarakumar and S. Ramasamy, Molecular dynamics Simulations of the onset of Super-ionic Conduction in Yttebia-stabilized Zirconia, Solid State Physics (India) 50, 617 (2005). A. K. Chakravarthy, K. Venu, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Multicanonical Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation of nematic-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystals, Proceedings - SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 5565, 179 (2004). M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Re-weighting - a technique based on importance sampling, Solid State Physics (India) 47, 113 (2004). K.-H. Herrmann, S. V. M. Satyanarayana, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo simulation of actin ?lament based cell motility, International Journal of Modern Physics B 17, 5597 (2003). S. Chitra, K. P. N. Murthy and K. Ramachandran, Monte Carlo study on the structural phase transition in Gd-Mg Alloy, International Journal of Modern Physics C 14, 613 (2003). S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, A. K. Rajarajan and K. P. N. Murthy, Interacting growth walk - a model for hyper-quenched homo- polymer glass?, Physical Review E 67, 011802 (2003) S. L. Narasimhan, V. Sridhar, and K. P. N. Murthy, Interacting growth walk on a Honeycomb lattice, Physica A 320, 51 (2003). M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, A Hybrid Monte Carlo for calculating Canonical Ensemble Averages, Solid State Physics (India)46 43 (2003). K. Venu, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Nematic - isotropic transition in porous media - a Monte Carlo study, Europhysics Letters, 58, 646 (2002). R. Harish, S. Rajasekar and K. P. N. Murthy, Diffusion in periodically driven damped and and undamped pendulum, Physical Review E 65, 046214 (2002). T. Pramananda Perumal, V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy, K. S. Easwarakumar and S. Ramasamy, Molecular dynamics simulations of oxygen ion diffusion in yttria-stabilized zirconia, Physica A 309, 35 (2002). K. P. N. Murthy and S. L. Narasimhan, Interacting Growth walks - a model for a glassy polymer ?, Solid State Physics (India) 45, 55 (2002). S. Chitra, K. P. N. Murthy and K. Ramachandran, Phase transition Gd-Mg alloy - Monte Carlo simulation, Solid State Physics (India) 45, 7 (2002). S L Narasimhan, P S R Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy, Entropy barriers in a one dimensional Sticky Sphere system Solid State Physics 44, 145 (2002) S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy and M. Ramanadham, Interacting growth walk: a new model for generating compact self avoiding walks, Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 65, 010801 (2001). V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, Persistence and life time distribution in coarsening phenomena, Physica A 297, 411 (2001). S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, and K. P. N. Murthy, Sticky spheres, entropy barriers and non-equilibrium phase Transition, Physical Review E 64 , 011103 (2001). S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, and K. P. N. Murthy, Entropy Barriers in a One Dimensional Sticky Spheres Model, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 145 (2001). S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy, M. Ramanadham and R. Chidambaram, Interacting Growth Walk: An Algorithm for Protein Folding Simulations, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 73 (2001). S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy and M. Ramanadham, Interacting Growth Walk on a Honey Comb Lattice, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 53 (2001). R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Intermittency in random maps, Physica A 287, 161 (2000). V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Persistence and Life Time Distribution in Coarsening Phenomena, Solid State Physics (India) 43, 268 (2000). K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo Simulation of Statistical Mechanical Systems, Solid State Physics (India) 43, 80 (2000). K. W. Kehr and K. P. N. Murthy, Slow Energetic Relaxation Processes, Solid State Physics (India) 42 358 (1999). K. W. Kehr, K. P. N. Murthy and H. Ambaye, Connection between dispersive transport and statistics of extreme events, Physica A 253, 9 (1998). K. P. N. Murthy and G. M. Sch¨utz, Aging in two- and three-particle annihilation processes, Physical Review E 57, 1388 (1998). S. Rajasekar and K. P. N. Murthy, Dynamical evolution of escape probability in the presence of Sinai disorder, Physical Review E 57, 1315 (1998). K. P. N. Murthy, Aging Scaling in Relaxation Phenomena, Solid State Physics (India) 41 xxx (1998). K. P. N. Murthy and K. W. Kehr, Relaxation at late stages in an entropy barrier model for glassy systems, Journal of Physics A: Mathe- matical and General 30, 6671 (1997). K. P. N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr, K. Mussawisade and G. M. Sch¨utz, Aging in Random Walk Models, Solid State Physics (India) 40C 403 (1997). K. P. N. Murthy, L. K. Galos, P. Argyrakis and K. W. Kehr, Number of Distinct Sites Visited on a Percolation Cluster: Characteri- zation of Fluctuations, Physical Review E 54, 6922 (1996). S. Revathi, V. Balakrishnan, S. Lakshmibala and K. P. N. Murthy, Validity of the Mean-Field Approximation for Diffusion on a Random Comb, Physical Review E 54, 2298 (1996). S. Venkadesan, M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and S. Rajasekar, Evidence for chaos in an experimental time series from serrated plastic ?ow, Physical Review E 54, 611 (1996). Achille Giacometti and K. P. N. Murthy, Diffusion and trapping on a one-dimensional lattice, Physical Review E 53, 5647 (1996). S. Rajasekar, S. Venkadesan and K. P. N. Murthy, Experimental observation and characterization of chaos in the unstable plastic ?ow during tensile testing, Journal of Materials Science Letters 15, 597 (1996). K. W. Kehr, K. P. N. Murthy and H. Ambaye, Connection between dispersive transport and statistics of extreme events, Physica A 253, 9 (1998). K. P. N. Murthy and G. M. Sch¨utz, Aging in two- and three-particle annihilation processes, Physical Review E 57, 1388 (1998). S. Rajasekar and K. P. N. Murthy, Dynamical evolution of escape probability in the presence of Sinai disorder, Physical Review E 57, 1315 (1998). K. P. N. Murthy, Aging Scaling in Relaxation Phenomena, Solid State Physics (India) 41 xxx (1998). K. P. N. Murthy and K. W. Kehr, Relaxation at late stages in an entropy barrier model for glassy systems, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 30, 6671 (1997). K. P. N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr, K. Mussawisade and G. M. Sch¨utz, Aging in Random Walk Models, Solid State Physics (India) 40C 403 (1997). K. P. N. Murthy, L. K. Galos, P. Argyrakis and K. W. Kehr, Number of Distinct Sites Visited on a Percolation Cluster: Characterization of Fluctuations, Physical Review E 54, 6922 (1996). S. Revathi, V. Balakrishnan, S. Lakshmibala and K. P. N. Murthy, Validity of the Mean-Field Approximation for Diffusion on a Random Comb, Physical Review E 54, 2298 (1996). S. Venkadesan, M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and S. Rajasekar, Evidence for chaos in an experimental time series from serrated plastic flow, Physical Review E 54, 611 (1996). Achille Giacometti and K. P. N. Murthy, Diffusion and trapping on a one-dimensional lattice, Physical Review E 53, 5647 (1996). S. Rajasekar, S. Venkadesan and K. P. N. Murthy, Experimental observation and characterization of chaos in the unstable plastic flow during tensile testing, Journal of Materials Science Letters 15, 597 (1996). K. P. N. Murthy, Achille Giacometti and K. W. Kehr, Multifractal scaling in Sinai diffusion, Physica A 224, 232 (1996). K. P. N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr and Achille Giacometti, Multifractal scaling of moments of mean first passage time in the Presence of Sinai disorder, Physical Review E 53, 444 (1996). S. Koka, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Multiscaling of Grain growth in Polycrystalline Matrix, Solid State Physics (India) 39C 380 (1996). Thomas Witchmann, Achille Giacometti and K. P. N. Murthy, Iterated functions system and diffusion in the presence of disorder and traps, Physical Review E 52, 481 (1995). M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and S. Venkadesan, Time series analysis - a review, Key Engineering Materials 103, 141 (1995). S. Venkadesan, M. C. Valsakumar and K. P. N. Murthy, Chaotic flow in Al - Mg alloy, Key Engineering Materials 103, 287 (1995). K. N. Ramakrishnan, K. P. N. Murthy and S. Venkadesan, Fractal description of grain boundaries in a sintered powder metallurgical sample, Scripta Metallurgica Materialia 32, 685 (1995). K. P. N. Murthy, S. Rajasekar and K. W. Kehr, Fractal measures of mean first passage time in the presence of Sinai disorder, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 27, L107 (1994). S. Venkadesan, K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, Chaos in Experimental Serrated Plastic Flow, Solid State Physics(India) 37 C, 461 (1994). K. P. N. Murthy, M. C. Valsakumar and R. Indira, Diffusion Disorder and Dynamics, Solid State Physics(India) 37 C, 280 (1994). S. V. M. Sathyanarayana, K. Subbaravamma, V. Sridhar, M. C. Valsakumar and K. P. N. Murthy, Lyapunov Spectrum and Fractal Dimensions of a Model for Serrated Flow, Solid State Physics(India) 37 C, 460 (1994). K. P. N. Murthy, S. Rajasekar, M. C. Valsakumar, V. Sridhar and R. Krishnan, Fractal measures of first passage time of a simple random walk, Physica A 199, 55 (1993). H. K. Sahu, M. C. Valsakumar, and K. P. N. Murthy, Random Walks, Long Tails, Devil's Staircase, and Fractal Measures, Solid State Physics(India) 36C 331 (1993). K. P. N. Murthy, S. Rajasekar, and K. W. Kehr, Multifractal Analysis of Mean First Passage Time on a Sinai Lattice, Solid State Physics (India) 36C 271 (1993). V. Sridhar, K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, First passage time on a multifurcating hierarchical structure, Pramana - Journal of Physics 38, 219 (1992). K. P. N. Murthy, V. Sridhar, and M. C. Valsakumar, Ultradiffusion on a Multifurcating Hierarchical Structure, Solid State Physics(India) 34 C 236 (1991). M. C. Valsakumar and K. P. N. Murthy, Diffusion controlled multiplicative process - typical versus average behaviour, Pramana - Journal of Physics 35, 461 (1990). K. W. Kehr and K. P. N. Murthy, Distribution of mean first passage time in random chains due to disorder, Physical Review (Rapid Communications) A 41, 5728 (1990). K. P. N. Murthy and K. W. Kehr, Mean first passage time of random walks on a random lattice, Physical Review A 40, 2082 (1989); Physical Review A 41(2), 1160(E) (1990). C. P. Reddy and K. P. N. Murthy, A random walk technique to analyze noise and detect malfunction in a reactor, Progress in Nuclear Energy 21, 645 (1987). K. P. N. Murthy and S. R. Shenoy, Monte Carlo evidence for non- Arrhenius barrier-dependence of metastable life times, Physical Review A 36, 5087 (1987). T. Balasubramanian and K. P. N. Murthy, Treatment of correlations in stochastic coagulation process, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 119, 294 (1987). T. M. John and K. P. N. Murthy, A study of correlated exponential random walks, Journal of Statistical Physics 45, 753 (1986). K. P. N. Murthy and R. Indira, Analytical results on variance reduction characteristics of biased Monte Carlo for deep penetration problems, Nuclear Science and Engineering 92, 482 (1986). K. P. N. Murthy and S. Dattagupta, Monte Carlo calculations of switching-time statistics of a two mode laser, Physical Review A 32, 3481 (1985). K. P. N. Murthy, Asymptotic survival probability of random walks on a semi-infinite line, Pramana - Journal of Physics 25, 231 (1985). G. Ananthakrishna and K. P. N. Murthy, Influence of scattering anisotropy on optimal exponential biasing in Monte Carlo radiation transport: a correlated random walk model, Annals of Nuclear energy 12, 195 (1985). R. Indira and K. P. N. Murthy, Effect of scattering anisotropy on optimal choice of parameters for tracklength biassing , Annals of Nuclear energy 12, 97 (1985) G. S. Agarwal, S. Dattagupta and K. P. N. Murthy, Relaxation of single domain magnetic particles, Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 17, 6869 (1984). R. Indira, M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and G. Ananthakrishna, Diffusion in a bistable potential: a Comparative study of different methods of solution, Journal of Statistical Physics 33, 181 (1983). K. P. N. Murthy, Optimal choice of parameters for tracklength biassing in Monte Carlo deep penetration problems, Annals of Nuclear energy 10, 375 (1983). M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and G. Ananthakrishna, On the linearization of nonlinear Langevin type stochastic differential equations, Journal of Statistical Physics 30, 617 (1983). K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, Asymptotic results on occupancy times of random walks, Journal of Statistical Physics 29, 773 (1982). K. P. N. Murthy, A comparative study of different tracklength biasing schemes, Annals of Nuclear Energy 7, 389 (1980). R. Indira, M. M. Ramanathan and K. P. N. Murthy, Random sampling of scattering angle in neutron transport, Atomkernenergie.Kerntechnik 33, 199 (1979). K. P. N. Murthy, R. Indira and R. Shankar Singh, Albedo Monte Carlo technique for neutron streaming through ducts, Atomkernenergie.kerntechnik 34, 28 (1979). K. P. N. Murthy, Tracklength biasing in Monte Carlo radiation transport, Atomkernenergie.kerntechnik 34, 125 (1979).

CONFERENCE Published

Ch Sandhya, K Hima Bindu, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Phase Transition in a bond fluctuating linear homo polymer, Fifty Fifth DAE - Solid State Physics Symposium, December 26 - 30, 2010 Book of Abstracts: Abstract A 32, p.131 S C R Roshan, Lavanya Kundu, Regina Jose, K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Azimuthal Bistability in Patterned Nematic Liquid Crystal Films : A Monte Carlo Study, Fifty Fifth DAE - Solid State Physics Symposium, December 26 - 30, 2010 Book of Abstracts: Abstract: B34, p.134 Lavanya Kundu, S C R Roshan, B. K. Latha,K. P. N. Murthy, and V S S Sastry, Polymer Network Induced Ordering in Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals : A Monte Carlo Study, Fifty Fifth DAE - Solid State Physics Symposium, December 26 - 30, 2010 Book of Abstracts: Abstract: B36, p.134 K. P. N. Murthy, Random Walk, Radiation Transport and Statistical Thermodynamics, Third Dr. A. K. Ganguly Memorial Oration Lecture, in Eighteenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics (NSRP-18), Udaipur, 19 - 21, Novemer 2009. S. Sivakumar, S. Kanmani and K. P. N. Murthy, Chaotic dynamics in coupled adiabatic piston problem, in Eds. M Daniel and S. Rajasekar, Nonlinear Dynamics Narosa (2009) Invited talk at the International Conference on Recent Developments in Nonlinear Dynamics, Bharathidasan University, Trichirapalli, India, 13-16, February (2008). G. Sai Preeti, V. Vijay Kumar, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo Study of thin Cylindrical Hybrid Films, in International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2007 (ICMAT-2007), Singapore, 1 - 6, July 2007. D. Jayasri, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Effect of crosslink density on the nematic-isotropic phase transition in liquid crystal elastomers, in International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2007(ICMAT- 2007), Singapore, 1- 6, July 2007. M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narsimhan and K. P. N. Murthy A flat histogram method for interacting self avoiding walks, in International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies 2007 (ICMAT- 2007), Singapore, 1 - 6, July 2007. G. Sai Preeti, N. Satyavathi, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Anchoring Transition and Director Fluctuations in Liquid Crystal Droplets, in Fifty Second DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Mysore, Mysore, 27 -31, December 2007. D. Jayasri, T. Sairam, V. S. S. Sastry, and K. P. N. Murthy, Surface Anchoring in Thin Nematic Films: A Multi-Canonical Monte Carlo Study, in Fifty Second DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Mysore, Mysore, 27 - 31, December 2007. Sumantra Mandal, P. V. Sivaprasad and K. P. N. Murthy, Modeling the correlation between chemical composition and tensile properties in a 15Cr-15Ni-2.2Mo-Ti modi?ed austenitic stainless steel using artificial neural network, Proc. International Workshop on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm in Materials Science and Engineering (NGMS), edited by N.R. Bandyopadhyay et al., BESU, Howrah, India, January 11-13, 2006, pp.385-396. P.V. Sivaprasad, S. Venugopal and K. P. N. Murthy, Capability of a feed-forward artificial neural network to predict constitutive behavior of type 304L stainless steel during hot torsion, Proc. International Workshop on Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm in Materials Science and Engineering (NGMS), edited by N.R. Bandyopadhyay et al., BESU, Howrah, India, January 11-13, 2006, pp. 370-384. R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Intermittency and diffusion in chaotic pendulum, in Eds. M. Lakshmanan and R. Sahadevan, Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics, Proceedings of National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics (NCNSD-2006), Ramanujam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University opf Madras, Chennai, 6-8, February 2006, Allied Publishers, Chennai (2006)p.43 K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Ludwig Boltzmann, transport equation and the Second law, Invited talk at the Sixteenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics, Meenakshi College for Women, Chennai, 16-18 January 2006. Proceedings edited by A. K. Jena, R. Mathiyarasu and V. Gopalakrishnan, Indian Society for Radiation Physics (2006)p1. M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar, S. L. Narasimhan and K. P. N. Murthy, Study of phase transition through contact scaling in Interacting Growth Walk (IGW), Solid State Physics (India) 48, 77 (2005). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 26 - 30 December 2005. T Karthikeyan, S Saroja, M Vijayalakshmi and K. P. N. Murthy, Application of Intergranular Crack Percolation to a 3D Poisson- Voronoi Polyhedral Grain Structure, in Frontiers in the Design of Materials, (Eds.) Baldev Raj, S. Ranganathan, S. L. Mannan, K.Bhanu Sankara Rao, M. D. Mathew, P. Shankar, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press (2006). K. P. N. Murthy and V. S. S. Sastry, Invited talk : Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics, in Eds. S. Dattagupta, Anter El-Azab, S. B. Krupanidhi, Silvester Noronha, S. A. Shivashankar and Michael Zaiser, Proceedings of the International conference on Statistical Mechanics of Plasticity and Related Instabilities, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2005, PoS(SMPRI2005)018 http://pos.sissa.it/ Sumantra Mandal, P. V. Sivaprasad, K. P. N. Murthy and Baldev Raj, Modeling constitutive behaviour of a 15Cr-15Ni-2.2Mo-Ti modified stainless steel under hot compression using arti?cial neural net- work, in Eds. S. Dattagupta,Anter El-Azab, S. B. Krupanidhi, Silvester Noronha, S. A. Shivashankar and Michael Zaiser, Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Mechanics of Plasticity and Related Instabilities, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Aug. 29 - Sep. 2, 2005,PoS(SMPRI2005)059 http://pos.sissa.it/ M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Re-weighting - a technique based on importance sampling, Solid State Physics (India) 47, 113 (2004). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 26 - 30 December 2004. K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Bayesian Restoration of Digital Images Employing Ising and Potts Priors, in the National Seminar on Recent Trends in Digital Image Processing and Applications : DIPA 04, Yadava College, Madurai, 28 - 29 October 2004. K. P. N. Murthy, R. Harish and S. V. M. Sathyanarayana, Invited talk : Statistical Methods in Nonlinear Dynamics, Pramana - Journal of Physics 64 353 (2005): Invited talk in Perspectives in Nonlinear Dynamics, Chennai July 12-15 2004. A. Kalyan Chakravarthy, K. Venu, V. S. S. Sastry and K. P. N. Murthy, Multicanonical Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulation of Nematic-Isotropic phase transition in liquid crystals, XV Conference on Liquid Crystals (Chemistry, Physics and Applications), Zakopane, Poland, 13 - 17 October (2003). Proceedings - SPIE The International society for Optical engineering, XV Conf. Liquid Crystals, Ed. Jozef Zmija, ISSU 5565, 179 (2004). M. Ponmurugan, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, A Hybrid Monte Carlo for calculating Canonical Ensemble Averages, Solid State Physics (India) 46 43 (2003). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Jiwaji University, Gwalior, December 26-30 (2003). K.-H. Herrmann, S. V. M. Satyanarayana, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Monte Carlo Simulation of actin ?lament based Cell Motility, International Journal of Modern Physics B17 5597 (2003). Discussion Meeting on Statistical Mechanics of Threshold Activated Systems, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C.I.T. Campus, Taramani, Chennai, March 24-26 (2003). R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Anomalous diffusion and current generation in a driven Hamiltonian system, Proceedings of the First National Conference on Nonlinear System and Dynamics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 28 - 30 December (2003) K. P. N. Murthy and S. L. Narasimhan, Interacting Growth walks - a model for a glassy polymer ?, Solid State Physics (India) 45, 55 (2002). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Punjab University, Chandigargh, 26-30, December (2002). S. Chitra, K. P. N. Murthy and K. Ramachandran, Phase transition Gd-Mg alloy - Monte Carlo simulation, Solid State Physics (India) 45, 7 (2002). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Punjab University, Chandigargh, 26-30, December (2002). S. Rajasekar, R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Diffusion in periodically driven undamped and damped pendulums, Nonlinear Systems (Eds.) R. Sahadevan and M. Lakshmanan, Narosa Publishing House (2002)p.329; VIII Ramanujan Symposium on Recent Developments in Nonlinear Systems, Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Madras University Chennai, February 14 - 16, 2001. R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Intermittency and Multifractality in Iterated Functions System, Nonlinear Systems (Eds.) R. Sahadevan and M. Lakshmanan, Narosa Publishing House (2002)p.361; VIII Ramanujan Symposium on Recent Developments in Nonlinear Systems, Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Madras University, Chennai, February 14 - 16, 2001. S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, and K. P. N. Murthy, Entropy Barriers in a One Dimensional Sticky Spheres Model, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 145 (2001). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, BARC, Mumbai, 27-31, December 2001. S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy, M. Ramanadham and R. Chidambaram, Interacting Growth Walk: An Algorithm for Protein Folding Simulations, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 73 (2001). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, BARC, Mumbai, 26-30, December 2001. S. L. Narasimhan, P. S. R. Krishna, K. P. N. Murthy and M. Ramanadham, Interacting Growth Walk on a Honey Comb Lattice, Solid State Physics (India) 44, 53 (2001). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, BARC, Mumbai, 26-30, December 2001. V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Persistence and Life Time Distribution in Coarsening Phenomena, Solid State Physics (India) 43, 268 (2000). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, December 27-31, 2000. R. Harish and K. P. N. Murthy, Intermittency in Random Maps, Solid State Physics (India) 43, 494 (2000). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, December 27-31, 2000. K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Invited tutorial talk and demonstration: Monte Carlo Simulation of Statistical Mechanical Systems, Solid State Physics (India) 43, 80 (2000). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur, December 27-31, 2000. K. P. N. Murthy, Basic Issues in the Modeling of Aging Dynamics, Proceedings of International Symposium on Materials Aging and Life Management, October 3-6, 2000, Kalpakkam, India. (Eds. Baldev Raj, K. Bhanu Sankara Rao, T. Jayakumar and R. K. Dayal, Allied Publishers Limited, Chennai (2000)p620 K. W. Kehr and K. P. N. Murthy, Slow Energetic Relaxation Processes, Solid State Physics (India) 42 358 (1999). K. P. N. Murthy, Aging Scaling in Relaxation Phenomena, Solid State Physics (India) 41 xxx (1998). S. Koka, P. V. Sivaprasad, V. Sridhar, S. Venkadesan and K. P. N. Murthy, Multiscaling in Normal Grain Growth - A Monte Carlo Study, Proceedings of Conference on Frontiers in Materials Modeling and Design, Kalpakkam, Aug. 20-23, 1996; Springer Verlag (1997)p.404 K. P. N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr, K. Mussawisade and G. M. Sch?tz, Aging in Random Walk Models, Solid State Physics (India) 40C 403 (1997). K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Exponential Biasing - An Update, Invited talk in the National Conference on Radiation Shielding and Protection (RASP - 96), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, kalpakkam, June 26 - 28, 1996. See Proceedings, Eds. L. V. Krishnan, S. M. Lee and Om Pal Singh, Allied Publishers Ltd. (1996)p.70 C. R. Venkatasubramanian and K. P. N. Murthy, Calculations and Comparison with Measurements of Select Fission Products in a Thermal Reactor, National Conference on Radiation Shielding and Protection (RASP - 96), Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, kalpakkam, June 26 - 28, 1996. See Proceedings, Eds. L. V. Krishnan, S. M. Lee and Om Pal Singh, Allied Publishers Ltd. (1996)p.249 S. Koka, V. Sridhar and K. P. N. Murthy, Multiscaling of Grain growth in Polycrystalline Matrix, Solid State Physics (India) 39C 380 (1996). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, December 27 -31 (1996). K. P. N. Murthy, Achille Giacometti and K. W. Kehr, Invited talk : Multifractal Scaling in Sinai Di?usion, Physica A224 232 (1996). International Meeting on the Dynamics of Complex Systems, Calcutta, India, Aug. 6 - 12 (1995). R. Indira, T. M. John, and K. P. N. Murthy, A Study of Biased Monte Carlo in Radiation Transport Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Radiation Shielding, Texas, USA, April 24 - 28 (1994)p.1135 M. C. Valsakumar, K. P. N. Murthy and S. Venkadesan, Time Series Analysis - A Review, Non Linear Phenomena in Materials Science III - Instabilities and Patterning, Indo-French Workshop on Instabilities and Patterning and International Meeting on Non Linear Phenomena in Materials Science, Bangalore, India, December, (1994)p.141 S. Venkadesan, K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, Chaotic Flow in Al-Mg Alloy, Non Linear Phenomena in Materials Science III - Instabilities and Patterning, Indo-French Workshop on Instabilities and Patterning and International Meeting on Non Linear Phenomena in Materials Science, Bangalore, India, December, (1994)p.287 K. P. N. Murthy, K. W. Kehr, and S. Rajasekar, Diffusion in Disordered Systems, Indo-US Workshop on Ordering Disorder: Prospects and Retrospects in Condensed Matter Physics, Dec. 29, 1992 - Jan. 5, 1993; Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad; see AIP Conference Proceedings 286, Eds. Vipin Srivatsava, Anil K. Bhatnagar, and Donald G. Naugle, American Institute of Physics, New York (1994)p.243 S. Venkadesan, K. P. N. Murthy and M. C. Valsakumar, Chaos in Experimental Serrated Plastic Flow, Solid State Physics(India) 37C 461 (1994). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Dec. 27- 31, (1994). K. P. N. Murthy, M. C. Valsakumar and R. Indira, Diffusion Disorder and Dynamics, Solid State Physics(India) 37C 280 (1994). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Dec. 27- 31,(1994). S. V. M. Sathyanarayana, K. Subbaravamma, V. Sridhar, M. C. Valsakumar and K. P. N. Murthy,, Solid State Physics(India) 37 C 460 (1994). Lyapunov Spectrum and Fractal Dimensions of a Model for Serrated Flow, DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Dec. 27- 31, (1994). P. V. Sivaprasad, K. P. N. Murthy,, S. Venkadesan and S. L. Mannan, A Monte Carlo Study on the Nucleation and Grain Growth of a Polycrystalline Matrix, ?umerical predictions of deformation processes and behaviour of materials? Proceedings of Fifteenth RISO International Symposium Materials Science, Rosskilde, Denmark, Sep. 5 - 9, (1994)p.545 A. John Arul, and K. P. N. Murthy,, Fractal Measures of Fluctuations in a Critical System, Tenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics (NSRP-10) Kalpakkam, and Madras, Aug. 17-20 (1993)p.111 K. P. N. Murthy,, R. Indira, and T. M. John, Fractal Measures in a Deep Penetration Problem, Tenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics (NSRP-10), Kalpakkam, and Madras, Aug. 17-20 (1993)p.81 H. K. Sahu, M. C. Valsakumar, and K. P. N. Murthy,, Random Walks, Long Tails, Devil's Staircase, and Fractal Measures, Solid State Physics(India) 36C 331 (1993). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Dec. 27- 31, (1993). K. P. N. Murthy,, S. Rajasekar, and K. W. Kehr, Multifractal Analysis of Mean First Passage Time on a Sinai Lattice, Solid State Physics (India) 36C 271 (1993). DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Dec. 27- 31, (1993). K. P. N. Murthy,, V. Sridhar, and M. C. Valsakumar, Ultra-diffusion on a Multifurcating Hierarchical Structure, Solid State Physics(India) 34 C 236 (1991). Solid State Physics Symposium, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Dec. 21 - 24, 1991. C.P. Reddy and K. P. N. Murthy, A Random Walk Technique to Analyse Noise and Detect Malfunction in a Reactor, Progress in Nuclear Energy 21 645 (1987). SMORN V Conference, Munich (1987). K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Asymptotic Survival Probability of Random Walks on a Semi Infinite Line, Sixth Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Theory of Probability and Applications, Trivandrum; Dec.27-29, (1984). See Proceedings Published by the University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Dec. (1984)p.93 K. P. N. Murthy and R. Indira, Invited talk : An Importance Sampling Scheme for Monte Carlo Radiation Transport, Matscience Conference on Probability Theory and Monte Carlo Methods, Ootacamund, Sep. 15-20 (1983). A. K. Jena, R. Indira, K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar Singh, Studies on the design of bulk shields for a large fast breeder reactor, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Reactor Shielding, Tokyo, Japan; May 13 - 18, 1983, published by JAERI, Tokyo (1983)p.602 R. Indira, A. K. Jena, K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar Singh, Analysis of Fast Reactor Shielding Benchmarks, Sixth International Confer- ence on Reactor Shielding, Tokyo, Japan; May 13 - 18, 1983, published by JAERI, Tokyo (1983)p.411 K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talks : Monte Carlo Method for Solution of Nonlinear Langevin Equations-I and II, Invited Talks given at the Winter School on Stochastic Processes - Formalism and Applications, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad; Dec. 15-24 (1982); Lecture Notes in Physics, No.184, (Eds.) G.S.Agarwal and S.Dattagupta, pp 116 - 121, Springer-Verlag, 1982. K. P. N. Murthy, Invited talk : Tracklength Biasing in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport - A Review, Proceedings of Workshop on Monte Carlo Methods, Bombay; Jan. 10-20 1982. Ed. S. R. Dwivedi BARC, Bombay (1982)p.120 R. Indira, A. K. Jena, K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar Singh, Shielding Benchmark Experiments and Analysis, Workshop on Nuclear Data Evaluation, Processing and Testing, Kalpakkam; Aug. 4 - 5 (1981). See Proceedings Published by RRC, Kalpakkam K. P. N. Murthy, Direction dependent exponential biassing in Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport in thick shields, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Reactor Shielding, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, April 18 - 23, 1977, Science Press, Princeton (1977)p.598 K. P. N. Murthy, M. M. Ramanathan, R. Indira and R. Shankar Singh, Random sampling of neutron elastic scattering angle in Monte Carlo radiation transport calculations, Proceedings of the National Symposium on Radiation Physics, Mysore University, Mysore, June 10 - 12, 1976. Journal of the Mysore University, Section B: Science vol. XXV (1977)p.209 M. L. Sharma, K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar Singh, Fission product group constants for fast reactors, Symposium on Reactor Physics, BARC, Bombay Mar. 1 -3, (1976); see Proceedings published by BARC M. M. Ramanadhan, K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar singh, Equi-Probability table method for Monte Carlo simulation, Symposium on Reactor Physics, BARC, Bombay Mar. 1 - 3, (1976); see Proceedings published by BARC K. P. N. Murthy and R. Shankar singh, Decay Power for fast reactors, Symposium on Reactor Physics, BARC, Bombay Mar. 1 -3, (1976); see Proceedings published by BARC K. P. N. Murthy, R. Vaidyanathan and R. Shankar Singh, Gamma Ray Streaming through Annular Cylindrical Ducts, International Symposium on Radiation Physics, Bose Institute, Calcutta; Nov. 30 - Dec. 4 (1974).