FSAG Group - Mittal

Rajat Mittal

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Director of GW Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering (COBRE)

Computational fluid dynamics, Turbomachinery flows, Biofluid dynamics, Fluid-structure interaction, flow control.
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B. Tech Aero.Engg 1989, IIT Kanpur; MS Aero Engg 1991, University of Florida; Ph.D. Applied Mechanics, 1995, UIUC.

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.

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.

"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