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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
42
Citations
7720
World Ranking
1808
National Ranking
688

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the understanding of the breakdown of cross flow vortices in threedimensional boundary layers, attachmentline and hypersonic boundary layer instability including real gas effects, and developing physicsbased methods for the prediction of laminarturbulent transition
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Mujeeb R. Malik is affiliated with Langley Research Center in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work spans several subfields including computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, fluid flow and transfer processes, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics addressed in their research are fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, wind and air flow studies, combustion and flame dynamics, aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research, and rheology and fluid dynamics studies.

Mujeeb R. Malik has published numerous papers, with recent significant works including:

  • High-Fidelity Simulation of Turbulent Flow Past Gaussian Bump, 2021, AIAA Journal
  • Simulation of a turbulent flow subjected to favorable and adverse pressure gradients, 2021, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Quantum Speedup for Aeroscience and Engineering, 2020, AIAA Journal
  • Wall-modeled LES of flow over a Gaussian bump, 2021, AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • Wall-modeled LES of the NASA Juncture Flow Experiment, 2020, AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

Frequent coauthors in Malik's research include Prahladh S. Iyer, Ali Uzun, Roland Bouffanais, and Martin Skote.

Publication venues where Malik has frequently contributed include:

  • AIAA Journal
  • Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
  • AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has been recognized by professional organizations, earning the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2008. The same year, Malik was named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation highlighting contributions to the understanding of cross flow vortices breakdown, boundary layer instabilities, and the development of physics-based methods for predicting laminar-turbulent transition.

Best Publications

  • Numerical methods for hypersonic boundary layer stability

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  • Prediction and control of transition in supersonic and hypersonic boundary layers

    Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Crossflow disturbances in three-dimensional boundary layers: nonlinear development, wave interaction and secondary instability

    M. R. Malik;F. Li;C.-L. Chang

  • Secondary instability of crossflow vortices and swept-wing boundary-layer transition

    Mujeeb R. Malik;Fei Li;Meelan M. Choudhari;Chau-Lyan Chang

  • Application of spectral collocation techniques to the stability of swirling flows

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  • The neutral curve for stationary disturbances in rotating-disk flow

    Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Oblique-mode breakdown and secondary instability in supersonic boundary layers

    Chau-Lyan Chang;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • On the stability of an infinite swept attachment line boundary layer

    Philip Hall;M. R. Malik;D. I. A. Poll

  • Compressible stability of growing boundary layers using parabolized stability equations

    Chau-Lyan Chang;Mujeeb R. Malik;Gordon Erlebacher;M. Y. Hussaini

  • Instability and transition in rotating disk flow

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  • Fundamental and subharmonic secondary instabilities of Görtler vortices

    Fei Li;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Stability experiments in the flow over a rotating disk

    Stephen P. Wilkinson;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Boundary-layer transition on a cone and flat plate at Mach 3.5

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  • Real gas effects on hypersonic boundary-layer stability

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  • A spectral collocation method for the Navier-Stokes equations

    M.R Malik;T.A Zang;M.Y Hussaini

  • On the nature of PSE approximation

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  • On the stability of an infinite swept attachment line boundary layer

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  • On the stability of attachment-line boundary layers. Part 1. The incompressible swept Hiemenz flow

    Ray-Sing Lin;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Hypersonic Flight Transition Data Analysis Using Parabolized Stability Equations with Chemistry Effects

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  • Discrete modes and continuous spectra in supersonic boundary layers

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  • COSAL: A black-box compressible stability analysis code for transition prediction in three-dimensional boundary layers

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  • Travelling disturbances in rotating-disk flow

    P. Balakumar;M. R. Malik

  • On the instability of a three-dimensional attachment-line boundary layer: weakly nonlinear theory and a numerical approach

    Philip Hall;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Secondary instability in rotating-disk flow

    S. Balachandar;C. L. Streett;M. R. Malik

  • Effects of shock on the stability of hypersonic boundary layers

    Chau-Lyan Chang;Mujeeb R. Malik;M. Yousuff Hussaini

  • On the stability of attachment-line boundary layers. Part 2. The effect of leading-edge curvature

    Ray-Sing Lin;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Flow over a Wall-Mounted Hump with Separation and Reattachment

    Ali Uzun;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Simulation of a turbulent flow subjected to favorable and adverse pressure gradients

    Ali Uzun;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Wall-Resolved Large-Eddy Simulations of Transonic Shock-Induced Flow Separation

    Ali Uzun;Mujeeb R. Malik

  • Design and fabrication requirements for low-noise supersonic/hypersonic wind tunnels

    I. Beckwith;F.-J. Chen;M. Malik

  • Computation of hypersonic boundary-layer response to external disturbances

    Mujeeb Malik;Ray-Sing Lin;Raja Sengupta

  • Unsteady Simulation of a Landing-Gear Flow Field

    Fei Li;Mehdi R. Khorrami;Mujeeb R. Malik

Frequent Co-Authors

Meelan M. Choudhari
Meelan M. Choudhari Langley Research Center
Mehdi R. Khorrami
Mehdi R. Khorrami Langley Research Center
Steven A. Orszag
Steven A. Orszag Yale University
Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
Peter J. Schmid
Peter J. Schmid King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dimitri J. Mavriplis
Dimitri J. Mavriplis University of Wyoming
William S. Saric
William S. Saric Texas A&M University
Christopher L. Rumsey
Christopher L. Rumsey Langley Research Center
Sergio Pirozzoli
Sergio Pirozzoli Sapienza University of Rome

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