Doctor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Education
1968 Bachelor of Technology (Bachelor of Science), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
1969 Master of Science (Mississippi), Aeronautical Engineering,, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1975 Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy), Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Career
He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory 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. Over a period of 35 years, Professor Agarwal has worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Computational Magnetohydrodynamics (magnetohydrodynamic), Computational Aeroacoustics, Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flows, Flow Control, and Renewable Energy.
While at MDRL, Doctor Agarwal and his colleagues developed advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics codes that were used in the aerodynamic analysis and design of all categories of aerospace vehicles (transport and military aircraft, missile and launch vehicles, helicopters, and hypersonic space configurations).
These codes were developed on state of the art supercomputers and SIMD and MIMD parallel computing platforms available at the time. Foreign past ten years, he has devoted some of his efforts to renewable energy systems (wind, solar-thermal and biomass), energy efficient buildings and issues related to sustainable ground and air transportation.
Doctor Agarwal developed the third-order accurate upwind scheme in 1981 (has also been called the "Agarwal Algorithm") for the solution of Navier-Stokes equations, which for the first time showed the existence of multiple vortices in the corner regions of a 2-Doctorate lid-driven laminar cavity flow at high Reynolds numbers (~10,000). Doctor Agarwal is the co-developer of the Rahman-Agarwal-Siikonen (RAS) one-equation turbulence model.
Doctor Agarwal is the author and coauthor of over 450 publications and serves on the editorial board of twenty two journals.
1968 Bachelor of Technology (Bachelor of Science), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.