Kiran Bhaganagar Assistant Research Scientist Email: kbhagana@umich.edu Telephone: 734-763-6241 Fax: 734-763-0437 Office: 1211 Space Physics Research Building Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kbhagana/index.html Education: Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Research:   Development of Large-scale numerical algorithms to simulate turbulent flow, Numerical algorithms, Parallelization, Turbulence Physics, Direct numerical simulation, Roughness in turbulent flows, Transition to turbulence, Mathematical modeling of fluid phenomena, Application to biomedical problems, Coastal Engineering including sediment transport, Aerodynamic flows.

Numerical algorithms, Parallelization, Turbulence Physics, Direct numerical simulation, Roughness in turbulent flows, Transition to turbulence, Mathematical modeling of fluid phenomena, Application to biomedical problems, Coastal Engineering including sediment transport, Aerodynamic flows.

 
Professional Membership

Member, American Physics Society
Member, American Geophysical Union

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Member, Biomedical Society

1. K. Bhaganagar and T.Hsu Analysis of two-dimensional and three-dimensional ripple-current interaction at high Reynolds number',  Coastal Engineering, (in press) 2008
2. K.Bhaganagar, Direct numerical simulation of unsteady flow in channel with rough walls, Physics of Fluids, 20(10), 2008
3. K.Bhaganagar, R.Beaumont, B.Segee,  B.Ozer, Using fuzzy logic for Morphological Classification of IVUS-based plaques in Coronary artery in the context of hydrodynamics, Journal of Soft-Computing, in press,2008
4. M.Sen. K.Bhaganagar and V.Juttijudata, Proper Orthogonal analysis of Roughwall Turbulent Boundary Layer, Journal of Turbulence , 8(41), 2007
5. K.Bhaganagar, J. Kim and G.Coleman, “Effect of roughness on pressure fluctuations in a turbulent boundary layer”, Physics of Fluids 19(2), 2007
6. K. Bhaganagar, J. Kim and G. Coleman, Effect of Roughness on wall bounded turbulence, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion V 72, 2-4, 463:492 (2004)
7. K. Bhaganagar, D. Rempfer and J.L.Lumley, Direct Numerical Simulation of Spatial Transition to Turbulence using Fourth-Order Vertical Velocity Second-Order Vertical Vorticity Formulation, Journal of Comp.Phys 180,200-228 (2002)
8. K. Bhaganagar, D. Rempfer and J.L.Lumley Mechanisms of Spatial Transition to Turbulence for a Boundary-Layer TH, AIAA:2001-2701 (2001)

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