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Sanjay Mittal
PhD (Minnesota)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research Interest
Aerodynamics, CFD, Aerodynamic Shape Optimization, Bluff Body Flows, Vortex Induced Vibrations, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Transition and Turbulence, Air Intakes, Wind Tunnel Testing, Modeling of Traffic
Research Area
Aerodynamics
Education
PhD (Aerospace Engineering) , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1992
M.S. (Aerospace Engineering), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1990
B.Tech (Aeronautical Engineering), IIT Kanpur, 1988
Selected Publications
Navrose, Sanjay Mittal, 'Free vibrations of a cylinder: 3D computations at Re=1000', doi: 0.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.02.017, Journal of Fluids & Structures, (2013).
Bhaskar Kumar, Sanjay Mittal, 'On the origin of secondary vortex street',doi: 10.1017/jfm.2012.421, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, (2012).
AbhishekVerma and Sanjay Mittal, 'A new unstable mode in the wake of a circular cylinder', Physics of Fluids, 23, 121701, (2011).
Prasanth T.K., Vijay Premchandran, and Sanjay Mittal, 'Hysteresis in vortex-induced vibrations: critical blockage and effect of m*', Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 671, 207-- 225, (2011).
D.N. Srinath and Sanjay Mittal, `An adjoint method for shape optimization in unsteady viscous flows', Journal of Computational Physics, 229, 1994--2008, (2010).
Awards & Fellowships
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Engineering Sciences, 2006 CSIR, New Delhi
JC Bose Fellowship, Department of Science & Technology – 2013
Fellow, Indian National Science Academy (INSA), since 2011
Corresponding Editor, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (CMES), Tech Science Press, since 2011
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, 2007 IAS, Bangalore
Scopus Young Scientist in Engineering, 2007 Elsevier, New Delhi