Publications

Some of the selected publications are listed as below:

• M Thapa, SB Mulani, "Global Sensitivity Analysis of Discontinuous Responses Using Domain Decomposition," AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 0771, 2026

• C Campbell, SB Mulani, M Thapa, SM Olcmen, "Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for Aircraft Conceptual Design Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion," AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 0770, 2026

• JS Pilakkadan, M Thapa, SB Mulani, "A Stochastic Framework for Multiaxial Fatigue Analysis of Composite Structures Under Variable Amplitude Loading," AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 0768, 2026

• S Kolpuke, F Abushakra, SP Gogineni, M Thapa and D Taylor, "Airborne Dual-Polarized Ku-Band FMCW Synthetic Aperture Radar for Snow Measurements," in IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2025, doi: 10.1109/JMW.2026.3651391

• TD Luong, M Thapa, A Bhandari, JD Larson, SB Mulani, "Design of a Small Uncrewed Platform for Experimental Remote Sensing," AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025, 3486, 2025

• M Thapa, S B. Mulani, S Gupta, V Goyal, "Stochastic Non-Linear Buckling Analysis of Variable Angle Tow Composites,"  American Society for Composites 39th Technical Conference, 2024

• M Thapa, W Zhao, SB Mulani," Stochastic Thermal Buckling Analysis of Variable Angle Tow Composites,"  ASME Aerospace Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 2024

• M Thapa, SB Mulani, A Paudel, S Gupta, RW Walters, "Classifier-based adaptive polynomial chaos expansion for high-dimensional uncertainty quantification," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 422, 116829, 13, 2024

• S Gupta, A Paudel, M Thapa, SB Mulani, RW Walters, "Optimal sampling-based neural networks for uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization," Aerospace Science and Technology, 133, 108109, 12, 2023

• M Thapa, S Missoum," Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis of composite wind turbine blades," Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 222, 108354, 65, 2022

• M Thapa, S Missoum, "Surrogate-based stochastic optimization of horizontal-axis wind turbine composite blades," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 65 (2), 41, 35, 2022

• M Thapa, SB Mulani, RW Walters, "Adaptive weighted least-squares polynomial chaos expansion with basis adaptivity and sequential adaptive sampling," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 360, 112759 49, 2020

• M Thapa, SB Mulani, RW Walters, "Stochastic multi-scale modeling of carbon fiber reinforced composites with polynomial chaos," Composite Structures, 213, 82-97,71, 2019