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Sanjay Mittal is a Professor of
computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate th ...
in the Department of
Aerospace Engineering Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is si ...
at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur,
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.Sanjay Mittal
at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur


Early life and education

After doing his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...
,
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for M.S. program. He then received his Ph.D. and worked as a research associate under
Tayfun Tezduyar Tayfun E. Tezduyar is a mechanical engineer. He is known for his studies on the techniques of stabilizing the finite element methods. Tezduyar obtained his master's degree and doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1982, re ...
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Career

After working for two years at Army High Performance Computing center he returned to India and joined IIT Kanpur in the year of 1994 as an assistant professor.


Awards

Mittal has been the recipient of various awards. * 2006 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology * 2015 G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research


References

Indian aerospace engineers IIT Kanpur alumni Computational fluid dynamicists Academic staff of IIT Kanpur IIT Kanpur Living people University of Minnesota alumni Indian fluid dynamicists Year of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science {{India-academic-bio-stub