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