People

Faculty

Rajat Mittal


Professor of
Mechanical Engineering
Whiting School of Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University

Interests

  • Computational fluid dynamics, Turbomachinery flows, Biofluid dynamics, Fluid-structure interaction, flow control.
  • See also: FSAG Group WebPage

Education

  • B. Tech Aero.Engg 1989, IIT Kanpur; MS Aero Engg 1991, University of Florida; Ph.D. Applied Mechanics, 1995, UIUC.

Awards and honors

  • 2006 Lewis F. Moody Award from ASME
  • Pratt Whitney Fellows Lecture, East Hartford, CT, 1999.
  • 1996 Francois Naftali Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics from the Division of Fluid Dynamics of The American Physical Society, 1996.
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University amd NASA Ames Research Center, 1995.

Recent Publications

  • A versatile sharp interface immersed boundary method for incompressible flows with complex boundaries,Journal of Computational Physics, 2008
  • Wake topology and hydrodynamic performance of low-aspect-ratio flapping foils, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 566, pp. 309-343, 2006
  • Formation Criterion for Synthetic Jets, AIAA Journal, Vol.43, No.10, October 2005.
  • Immersed Boundary Methods, Annual Review Of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 37, pp. 239-61, 2005.
  • Computational Modeling in Biohydrodynamics: Trends, Challenges, and Recent Advances, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 595-604, 2004.
  • Computational Methodology for Large-Eddy Simulation of Tip-Clearance Flows, AIAA Journal ,Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 271-279, 2004.
  • Numerical study of pulsatile flow in a constricted channel, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 485, pp. 337–378, 2003.
  • On the Virtual Aero-Shaping Effect of Synthetic Jets, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2002.

Grants

  • "Development of an Integrated Artifical Muscle, High-Lift, Bio-Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Biorobotic Autonomous Autonomous Undersea Vehicles," ONR-MURI
  • "Computational Tools for Medialization Laryngoplasty" NIH
  • "Full Body Analysis of Competetive Swimming" USA Swimming
  • "Computational Modeling and Analysis of Synthetic Jets in Crossflow", NASA
 
Contact: Rajat Mittal, 126 Latrobe, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, 21218
Phone: (410)516-4069 Fax: (410)516-7254