Ramesh K. Agarwal
Born1947 (1947) (age 77)
Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India
NationalityAmerican
AwardsClarence (Kelly) Johnson Aerospace Vehicle and Design Award
Reed Aeronautics Award[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Aeroacoustics
ThesisImprovement of Series with Applications to Fluid-Mechanics (1975)
Doctoral advisorMilton Van Dyke
Doctoral studentsMichael Wendl

Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis.[2] He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory[3] at WUSTL. From 1994 to 1996, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Chair of Aerospace Engineering department at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and the executive director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. Agarwal received Ph.D in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968.

Research work

Agarwal has worked mostly in computational simulation of fluid flows. He developed a third-order upwind scheme in 1981[4] for the numerical integration of Navier-Stokes equations and did some of the early calculations of transonic wing-body interactions for aircraft.[5] He has also worked in control systems[6] and numerical simulation of carbon sequestration.[7] He also proposed the Wray-Agarwal one-equation turbulence model in 2015[8] which is a linear eddy viscosity model, derived from a k–omega turbulence model closure.

Recognition

Dr. Agarwal has been honored with the Reed Aeronautics Award and is a fellow of several professional and honorary societies, including the Royal Aeronautical Society[9]

References

  1. ↑ AIAA Reed Aeronautics Award Recipients
  2. ↑ Washington University Endowed Professorships: A Distinguished Tradition (2006) Washington University Press, pp 275.
  3. ↑ "CFD Lab Homepage Washington university". research.engineering.wustl.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
  4. ↑ R.K. Agarwal, “A Third-Order-Accurate Upwind Scheme for Navier-Stokes Solutions at High Reynolds Number,” AIAA Paper 81-0112, 1981.
  5. ↑ JE Deese and RK Agarwal (1988) Navier-Stokes calculations of transonic viscous flow about wing-body configurations. J. Aircraft 25(12) 1106.
  6. ↑ P Shi, EH Boukas, and RK Agarwal (1999) Control of Markovian jump discrete-time systems with norm bounded uncertainty and unknown delay. IEEE Trans. Auto. Control 44(11) 2139.
  7. ↑ R Safi, RK Agarwal, and S Banerjee (2016) Numerical simulation and optimization of CO2 utilization for enhanced oil recovery from depleted reservoirs. Chem. Eng. Sci. 144, 30.
  8. ↑ Wray T.J., Agarwal R.K., "A New Low Reynolds Number One Equation Turbulence Model Based on a k-omega Closure," AIAA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 8, 2015, pp. 2216-2227
  9. ↑ B Miller (2015) Agarwal receives Honorary Fellowship from Royal Aeronautical Society
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