Prof. Rajat Mittal
(BT/AE/1989)
A leading expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dr. Rajat Mittal is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, United States, with a secondary appointment at its School of Medicine.
Profile
He received his B.Tech. in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1989, followed by an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Florida in 1991, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. His research spans computational fluid dynamics, low Reynolds number aerodynamics, biomedical flows, and active flow control, along with advanced simulation techniques such as Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and direct numerical simulation (DNS), Immersed boundary methods, fluid dynamics of locomotion (swimming and flying), biomimetics and bioinspired engineering and turbomachinery flows. He serves as an associate editor for several leading peer-reviewed journals, including Frontiers in Computational Physiology and Medicine, Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Computational Physics, and the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. He has also been a technical consultant to several organizations, including the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Alaska Sealife Center
Achievements and Honors
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2026
- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2025
- Stanley Corrsin Awards from the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, 2022
- Freeman Scholar Awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2011
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
- Lewis F. Moody Award, ASME, 2006
- Pratt & Whitney Fellows Lecture, 1999
- Francois Naftali Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 1996
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University & NASA Ames, 1995