Chitrarth Prasad

Dr. Chitrarth Prasad is an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU), serving as Director of the Flow Physics Simulation Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (2019) and previously worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Ohio State University's High-Fidelity Multi-Physics Laboratory (2019–2023). His research focuses on aeroacoustics, hypersonics, unsteady aerodynamics, turbulence modeling, and computational fluid dynamics, with applications to jet noise reduction, high-speed flows, and flow-structure interactions.

• Education:
  • PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (2016–2019)
  • M.Tech, Computational Mechanics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (2014–2016)
  • B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad (2009–2013)
• Labs: Director of the Flow Physics Simulation Lab (website)
• Grants: Principal Investigator for the NASA Oklahoma EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development grant (2022–2025)

His research explores mechanisms governing noise generation in high-speed jets, turbulence modeling for complex 3D flows, and flow physics using large-eddy simulations (LES) and advanced modal decomposition techniques like Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD). He collaborates on projects involving shock-boundary layer interactions, fluid-thermal control strategies, and experimental data analysis from high-speed schlieren imaging.

Teaching includes courses on fundamental fluid dynamics, computational methods, and doctoral dissertation supervision. His work bridges numerical simulation, physics-based analysis, and experimental validation to address challenges in aerodynamic design and noise mitigation.