Nationality American Name Ramesh Agarwal | Doctoral advisor Milton Van Dyke | |
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Born 1947
Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, India ( 1947 ) Fields Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Aeroacoustics, Computational Electromagnetics and Magnetohydrodynamics, Rarefied Gas Dynamics and Hypersonic Flow, Energy Systems (Wind, Biomass, Solar-thermal) Known for Application of CFD to the analysis and design of all categories of aerospace vehicles Notable awards Clarence (Kelly) Johnson Aerospace Vehicle and Design Award
Reed Aeronautics Award Education University of Minnesota, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Stanford University | ||
Doctoral students Michael Christopher Wendl | ||
Ramesh k agarwal to receive the aiaa 2015 reed aeronautics award
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. He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education 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. 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. Agarwal developed a third-order upwind scheme in 1981 for the numerical integration of Navier-Stokes equations.