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Amitabha Ghosh Amitabha Ghosh

Professor
Phone: 585-475-2191
E-mail: ANGeme@rit.edu
Office: 2179 J. Gleason
URL: http://www.rit.edu/~angeme/

Biography:
Dr. Amitabha Ghosh is a licensed Professional Engineer with a Ph.D. in general engineering composite (Major: Aerospace Engineering) from Mississippi State University. He obtained his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is currently a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. However he is also a major contributor in the teaching of the solid mechanics sequence. At RIT he has established a track record of developing externally funded research programs, and has acted as consultant to a variety of US National Laboratories.

Although Dr. Ghosh's primary research focus is in computational fluid dynamics and numerical grid generation, he has been involved with many applied projects in biomechanics and engineering. After joining RIT, he developed a collaborative work with the University of Rochester in three-dimensional reconstruction of echocardiographic images. He has served in the extended Ph.D. faculty of the Center for Imaging Science for many years due to this collaboration. In the past he has served as a consultant to the Naval Underwater Systems Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, NASA-Ames and NASA-Langley Research Centers, and successfully initiated and managed grant proposals with these agencies. His past projects areas involve 3-Dimensional Navier-Stokes calculations for incompressible flows using a body-fitted coordinate system, calculation of boundary layer characteristics of gas-particulate flows, airblast calculations using large commercially available codes such as HULL and SHARC, flow calculations on arbitrary moving boundaries using ABMAC, internal and external flow solutions using PMARC, and wind tunnel wall interference techniques. He specializes in flow diagnostics using computational fluid dynamics.

Dr. Ghosh's current research focus is on the development of multi-disciplinary teams to furnish research support for micro-air vehicles, wind tunnel wall interference correction techniques, and aerospace and automotive wind tunnel testing. He is a member of several departmental committees on curriculum development. In the past he has served in the RIT faculty council and the Eisenhart awards committee. Currently he is an active member of the Institutional Review Board on the research of human subjects. In the past he mentored several Pittsford high school and middle school student groups to compete and win in the Science Congress.