Rajat Mittal
Rajat Mittal is a computational fluid dynamicist and a professor of mechanical engineering in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a secondary appointment in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is known for his work on immersed boundary methods (IBMs) and applications of these methods to the study of fluid flow problems. Biography. Mittal earned his bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1989. He received an MS in aerospace engineering from University of Florida and a PhD in applied mechanics from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign  1991 and 1995, respectively. He completed postdoctoral research at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University, where he conducted research in large-eddy simulation of complex turbulent flows. From 1996 to 2001, he was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florida. From 2001 to 2009, Mittal was on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at George Washington University. He has been a professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University since 2009 and a professor of medicine since 2015. Mittal is the founder and chief technical officer of  HeartMetrics, Inc., a start-up that develops computational tools to help the treatment of coronary artery disease. Research. Mittal leads the Flow Physics and Computation Lab at Johns Hopkins. The focus of Mittal's lab is on fundamental fluid mechanics phenomenon and numerical analysis. In particular, his lab works on computational modeling of fluid flows, biofluid mechanics, bioinspired engineering, biomedical engineering, and flow control. Recent projects have focused on flow control, flow-induced flutter and vibration, biolocomotion, biosensing, bioacoustics, cardiovascular hemodynamics, heart murmurs and thrombosis, gastric fluid mechanics, and the flow physics of COVID-19. During his time at Johns Hopkins , Mittal has made significant contributions to many topics in fluid mechanics, spanning cardiovascular fluid dynamics, fundamental mechanisms of human and animal swimming, development of immersed boundary methods, iterative methods in scientific computing, bioacoustics, and turbulent flows. Mittal is also a holder of multiple patents on image-based analysis of cardiovascular hemodynamics.