Associate Professor rkoomul@uab.edu
Hoehn Engineering Building 320
(205) 934-0832

Research and Teaching Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Computing, Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Numerical Methods, Biomedical Flow Simulation, and Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics

Office Hours: By appointment

Dr. Koomullil received his doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University (MSU) in 1997. Before joining UAB, he served as an Assistant Research Professor at the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) at MSU and as Berkeley Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. He has over 25 years of experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), moving body simulations, pollutant transport simulations, overset mesh technology, and biomedical flow modeling. He has taught various courses in fluid mechanics, CFD, computer aided engineering, and numerical methods.

In administrative roles, he has served as the Undergraduate Program Director, Graduate Program Director, and Mechanical Engineering Honors Program Director. Dr. Koomullil has received several research projects from various government agencies (such as NASA, DoD, and NIH) and industry, and published articles in leading academic journals. He has also served as reviewer for prestigious journal such as AIAA Journal and served as an Editor of special edition of Electronic Journal of Differential Equations.