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My research interests are in developing advanced computational tools for biofluids and fluid-structure interaction problems, which we employ to advance knowledge and gain insights into the physics of important biological/engineering flows.

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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Fish Locomotion, Eel Swimming, Ground Effect, Self-propelled, Simulation

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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4012 Fluid Mechanics And Thermal Engineering

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Networking And Information Technology R&d

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Sharif University of Technology - (Tehran, Iran)

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University of Minnesota - (Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States)

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Georgia Institute of Technology - (Atlanta, Georgia, United States)

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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

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3D RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE FROM FOUR ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS

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High-resolution fluid-structure interaction simulations of flow through a bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve in an anatomic aorta.

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Automated Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Left Ventricle From Multiple-Axis Echocardiography.

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Numerical simulation of 3D flow past a real-life marine hydrokinetic turbine

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A Simple Flow Classification Parameter Can Discriminate Rupture Status in Intracranial Aneurysms.

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Parallel Implementation of Periodic Boundary Conditions for a Curvilinear Immersed Boundary Method

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Hydrodynamics of the bluegill sunfish C-start escape response: three-dimensional simulations and comparison with experimental data.

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VORTEX GENERATION IN TWO INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS

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A Newton-Krylov method with an approximate analytical Jacobian for implicit solution of Navier-Stokes equations on staggered overset-curvilinear grids with immersed boundaries.

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Large Eddy Simulations of Flows with Moving Boundaries

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Mechanisms of Morphing Wall Flow Control by Traveling Waves over an Airfoil

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Simulation of the three-dimensional hinge flow fields of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve under aortic conditions.

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The influence of inertia on the rheology of a periodic suspension of neutrally buoyant rigid ellipsoids

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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SELF-PROPELLED AQUATIC SWIMMING IN UNIFORM AND VORTICAL FLOWS

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A parallel dynamic overset grid framework for immersed boundary methods

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SELF-PROPELLED SWIMMING SIMULATIONS OF SELF-ASSEMBLING SMART BOXES

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Erratum to: Simulation of the Three-Dimensional Hinge Flow Fields of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Under Aortic Conditions

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The functional role of caudal and anal/dorsal fins during the C-start of a bluegill sunfish.

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Left ventricular flow analysis: recent advances in numerical methods and applications in cardiac ultrasound.

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Generation and Optimization of Traveling Vibrating Waves in Self-Assembling Swimming Smart Boxes

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3D FLOW SIMULATIONS IN A SIMPLIFIED RIGHT VENTRICLE MODEL

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A review of fluid-structure interaction simulations of prosthetic heart valves.

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The Role of Shape and Heart Rate on the Performance of the Left Ventricle.

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Visualizing the wake of aquatic swimmers

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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NREL PHASE VI WIND TURBINE MODELING USING AN UNSTEADY PANEL METHOD

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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Fluids in 2018

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Large eddy Simulation of turbulent compressible wavy channels

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Vortex-induced vibrations of two cylinders in tandem arrangement in the proximity-wake interference region.

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Why don't mackerels swim like eels? The role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of undulatory swimming

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Video: Stall Delay of a NACA0018 Airfoil by Traveling Wave Actuations

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FLOW CONTROL with TRAVELING-WAVE SURFACE MORPHING at POST-STALL ANGLES of ATTACK

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Large eddy simulations of a turbulent channel flow with a deforming wall undergoing high steepness traveling waves

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Fluid-structure coupled biotransport processes in aortic valve disease.

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Self-Propelled Swimming Simulations of Self-Assembling Smart Boxes

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How fish schooling improves swimming performance?

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A compressible LES with immersed boundary method

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Curvilinear immersed boundary method for simulating coupled flow and bed morphodynamic interactions due to sediment transport phenomena

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PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATION OF PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR A CURVILINEAR IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD

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A Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Tool for Optimization and Guided Implantation of Biomedical Devices

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Pulsatile flow effects on the hemodynamics of intracranial aneurysms.

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DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE INTRA-VENTRICULAR FLOW USING PATIENT-SPECIFIC ANATOMY

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Interactive slice WIM: navigating and interrogating volume data sets using a multisurface, multitouch VR interface.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Supporting internal visualization of biomedical datasets via 3D rapid prototypes and sketch-based gestures

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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A learning-based, region of interest-tracking algorithm for catheter detection in echocardiography.

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NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine Modeling Using an Unsteady Panel Method

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The hydrodynamic advantages of synchronized swimming in a rectangular pattern.

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The Effects of Implantation Orientation of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve in an Anatomic Left Ventricle-Aorta Configuration.

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GENERATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF TRAVELING VIBRATING WAVES IN SELF-ASSEMBLING SWIMMING SMART BOXES

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Numerical Simulations of Flow around Copepods: Challenges and Future Directions

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Sharp-Interface Immersed-Boundary Method for Compressible Flows with Shock-Particle Interaction

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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A kinematics-based model for the settling of gravity-driven arbitrary-shaped particles on a surface.

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Hemodynamic Effects of the Orientation of a Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Implanted in an Anatomic Aorta

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The fish tail motion forms an attached leading edge vortex.

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The Ground Effect in Anguilliform Swimming.

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Simulations of Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion: From Unsteadiness in Straight-Line Swimming to Fast-Starts.

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A hybrid echocardiography-computational fluid dynamics framework for ventricular flow simulations

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Video: Leading edge vortex formation in aquatic swimming

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Computational Techniques for Biological Fluids: From Blood Vessel Scale to Blood Cells

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A contact model based on the coefficient of restitution for simulations of bio-prosthetic heart valves.

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The effects of irregular shape on the particle stress of dilute suspensions

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Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of anguilliform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes.

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A non-dimensional parameter for classification of the flow in intracranial aneurysms. I. Simplified geometries.

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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A parallel dynamic overset grid framework for immersed boundary methods

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Hydrodynamics of swimming in stingrays: numerical simulations and the role of the leading-edge vortex

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On the role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of self-propelled body/caudal fin swimming.

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Fluid-structure interaction in bi-leaflet mechanical heart valves

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3D Flow Simulations in a Simplified Right Ventricle Model

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On the role of copepod antennae in the production of hydrodynamic force during hopping.

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Fluid-structure interaction, immersed boundary-finite element method simulations of bio-prosthetic heart valves

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A parallel dynamic overset grid framework for immersed boundary methods

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A hybrid echocardiography-CFD framework for ventricular flow simulations.

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Controlling Flow Separation on a Thick Airfoil Using Backward Traveling Waves

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of carangiform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes.

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An Immersed Boundary Method for Calculating the Relative Viscosity of a Suspension of Rigid Particles

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On the scaling of propagation of periodically generated vortex rings

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Disentangling the functional roles of morphology and motion in the swimming of fish.

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Flow-induced vibration of a circular cylinder with an attached elastic plate of high aspect ratio

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A hybrid echocardiography-CFD framework for ventricular flow simulations

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On the structure of vortex rings from inclined nozzles

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Reducing flow separation of an inclined plate via travelling waves

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Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion Simulations: From unsteadiness in straight-line swimming to fast-starts

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Direct Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction of Heart Valve Prosthesis in an Anatomic Aorta

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A review of state-of-the-art numerical methods for simulating flow through mechanical heart valves.

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A Process for Design, Verification, Validation, and Manufacture of Medical Devices Using Immersive VR Environments

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The effect of implantation orientation of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve on kinematics and hemodynamics in an anatomic aorta.

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A parallel overset-curvilinear-immersed boundary framework for simulating complex 3D incompressible flows.

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Aerodynamic Design of Flat Delta Kite Based on Polhamus Concept of Leading Edge Suction Analogy

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Comparison of platelet activation through hinge vs bulk flow in bileaflet mechanical heart valves.

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AN IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE RELATIVE VISCOSITY OF A SUSPENSION OF RIGID PARTICLES

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A numerical study on controlling flow separation via surface morphing in the form of backward traveling waves

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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Platelet activation of mechanical versus bioprosthetic heart valves during systole.

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Hydrodynamics of aquatic swimming: inspiration for flow control

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SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

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Hemodynamic Effects of the Orientation of a Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Implanted in an Anatomic Aorta

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Breaking the symmetry of a wavy channel alters the route to chaotic flow

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Dynamics of non-spherical particles resting on a flat surface in a viscous fluid

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Separating the effects of swimming mode and body shape in undulatory swimming

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Numerical Simulations of the NREL Phase VI Wind Turbine with Low-Amplitude Sinusoidal Pitch

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Vortex-induced vibrations of an elastically mounted sphere with three degrees of freedom at Re=300: hysteresis and vortex shedding modes

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Effects of Reynolds and Womersley Numbers on the Hemodynamics of Intracranial Aneurysms.

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Automatic segmentation of the left ventricle in echocardiographic images using convolutional neural networks.

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AERODYNAMIC DESIGN OF FLAT DELTA KITE BASED ON POLHAMUS CONCEPT OF LEADING EDGE SUCTION ANALOGY

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3D Reconstruction of the Left Ventricle From Four Echocardiographic Projections

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A non-dimensional parameter for classification of the flow in intracranial aneurysms. II. Patient-specific geometries.

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The effect of undulations on the particle stress in dilute suspensions of rod-like particles

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Effect of Reynolds Number on Traveling Wave Flow Control

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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SIMULATIONS OF THE HINGE FLOW FIELDS OF A BILEAFLET MECHANICAL HEART VALVE UNDER PHYSIOLOGIC PULSATILE AORTIC CONDITIONS

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Curvilinear Immersed Boundary Method for Simulating Fluid Structure Interaction with Complex 3D Rigid Bodies.

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Self-propelled swimming simulations of bio-inspired smart structures.

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The Role of Amplitude on Controlling Flow Separation Using Traveling Wave Morphing

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

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CAREER: Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) for biological flows

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Educational videos of the principles of aquatic propulsion and their role in the evolution for Buffalo Science Museum

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American Physical Society - (College Park, Maryland, United States)

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Physics Outreach Grants, New York State Section - American Physical Society

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A new parameter for prediction of intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics and risk of rupture

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National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Hemodynamics & Optimum Placement of Mechanical versus Bio-prosthetic Heart Valves

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American Heart Association - (New York, New York, United States)

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The Effects of Micro-Structure on the Rheology of Heavy Crude Oil

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American Chemical Society - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Advanced Mechanical Performances of Polymer Composites Promoted By Rigid Ladder-Molecules

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Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States)

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CAREER: Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) in Biological Flows

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Fulbright Association - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Controlling Flow Separation via Traveling Wave Actuators

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Researchers Redesigning Mechanical Heart Valves

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Akbarzadeh, Amir Mahdi (2021-10). Flow Control Using Traveling Waves. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Hedayat, Mohammadali (2020-04). Platelet Activation in Artificial Heart Valves. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Aanandh Manjunathan, Sujyesh (2021-11). Flow induced vibration of a circular cylinder with an attached elastic plate of high aspect ratio. Master's Thesis.

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Kim, Taeouk N/A (2020-04). Automatic Segmentation of the Echocardiographic Images Using Machine Learning. Master's Thesis.