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  1. Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of da Vinci's aerial screw

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  2. Three-Dimensional Simulations of Transonic Shock-Stall on a Sinusoidally Pitching Wing

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  3. How Hydrodynamic Wakes Shape the Movement of Large Fish Schools

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal, Ji Zhou

  4. The Effects of Anisotropic Porous Lattice Substrates on Turbulent Separation Bubbles

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Yang Zhang, Professor Rajat Mittal

  5. Changes in aorta hemodynamics in Left-Right Type 1 bicuspid aortic valve patients after replacement with bioprosthetic valves: An in-silico study

    Article • PLOS One, April 2024, PLOS

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  6. Time-Accurate Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Simulations of Transonic Flutter

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  7. Face masks provide high outward protection despite peripheral leakage: Insights from a reduced-order model of face mask aerodynamics

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  8. Effect of stomach motility on food hydrolysis and gastric emptying: Insight from computational models

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  9. Computational modeling of drug dissolution in the human stomach: Effects of posture and gastroparesis on drug bioavailability

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  10. A method for partitioning the sources of aerodynamic loading noise in vortex dominated flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  11. A mathematical framework for estimating risk of airborne transmission of COVID-19 with application to face mask use and social distancing

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  12. Heat transfer enhancement in laminar flow heat exchangers due to flapping flags

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  13. Aerodynamic Characteristics of Canonical Airfoils at Low Reynolds Numbers

    Article • AIAA Journal, February 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Karthik Menon, Professor Rajat Mittal

  14. Experimental Characterization of the Flow-Induced Flutter of a Suspended Elastic Membrane

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  15. Flutter-enhanced mixing in small-scale mixers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  16. Input-Output Analysis of a Separated Flow Past a Flat Plate

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  17. Vortex shedding from a circular cylinder in shear-thinning Carreau fluids

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  18. Flow Physics and Frequency Scaling of Sweeping Jet Fluidic Oscillators

    Article • AIAA Journal, June 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  19. Matters of the heart

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  20. An Integrated Study of the Aeromechanics of Hovering Flight in Perturbed Flows

    Article • AIAA Journal, March 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal, Tyson Hedrick

  21. Aeromechanics of Hovering Flight in Perturbed Flows: Insights from Computational Models and Animal Experiments

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal, Tyson Hedrick

  22. A Highly Scalable Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Method for Large-Scale Parallel Computers

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  23. Effect of Synthetic Jet Modulation Schemes on the Response of a Separation Bubble

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  24. Computational Modeling and Analysis of Sweeping Jet Fluidic Oscillators

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  25. Identifying Dynamic Modes of Separated Flow Subject to ZNMF-Based Control from Surface Pressure Measurements

    Article • June 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  26. Wall-Modeled Large Eddy Simulation of Laminar and Turbulent Separation Bubble Flows

    Article • June 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  27. Energy harvesting by flow-induced flutter in a simple model of an inverted piezoelectric flag

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  28. Flutter instability of a thin flexible plate in a channel

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  29. Simulation of Boundary Layer flows over Biofouled Surfaces

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  30. Applications of the integral Wall Model in LES of flow over surfaces including resolved and subgrid roughness

    Article • June 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Rajat Mittal

  31. Optimal Flapping Strokes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Rajat Mittal