Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.Washington University Endowed Professorships: A Distinguished Tradition (2006) Washington University Press, pp 275. He is also the director of Aerospace Engineering Program, Aerospace Research and Education Center and Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at WashU. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam 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 1981R.K. Agarwal, “A Third-Order-Accurate Upwind Scheme for Navier-Stokes Solutions at High Reynolds Number,” AIAA Paper 81-0112, 1981. for the numerical integration of Navier-Stokes equations and did some of the early calculations of transonic wing-body interactions for aircraft.JE Deese and RK Agarwal (1988) Navier-Stokes calculations of transonic viscous flow about wing-body configurations. J. Aircraft 25(12) 1106. He has also worked in control systemsP 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. and numerical simulation of carbon sequestration.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. He also proposed the Wray-Agarwal one-equation turbulence model in 2015Wray 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 which is a linear eddy viscosity model, derived from a k–omega turbulence model closure.
Recognition Agarwal has been honored with the Reed Aeronautics Award and is a fellow of several professional and honorary societies, including the Royal Aeronautical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.B Miller (2015) Agarwal receives Honorary Fellowship from Royal Aeronautical Society
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