News:
Exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Augest, 2025 - Jan 25, 2026.
Physics of Fluids, Jan. 31, 2025 — The article "Effect of hydrodynamic wakes in dynamical models of large-scale fish schools" has been featured on the cover of Physics of Fluids
ASME, Jul. 11, 2024 — A School of Fish is Quieter than Just One
It may not be sociability that makes fish swim together. Turns out that moving in unison can help them avoid detection.
BBC Wildlife, Apr. 15, 2024 — Schools of fish can swim as quietly as individuals. How 'acoustic stealth' could inspire next wave of submarines
The way fish move has a significant impact on how noisy the school is, according to a new study. Engineers say the finding could…
Physicsworld, Apr. 14, 2024 — How schooling fish can be quieter than a solitary swimmer
You may remember the recent news that it only takes three fish to make up a school. Well now comes more vertebrata developments…
Good News Network, Apr. 12, 2024 — Fish Swim in Schools for Stealth–as 100 Fish Make Less Noise Than an Individual Swimming Alone
Watching a school of fish move can be hypnotic. The way they turn in near-perfect synchronicity is equal parts beauty and…
Publications :
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Seo, JH., Zhou, J., Mittal, R. Scaling Laws for Caudal Fin Swimmers Incorporating Hydrodynamics, Kinematics, Morphology, and Scale Effects. Journal of Fluid Mechanics (accepted), 2026.
Zhou, J., Seo, JH., Mittal, R. Hydrodynamically beneficial school configurations in carangiform swimmers: insights from a flow-physics informed model. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2025.
Zhou, J., Seo, JH., Mittal, R. Effect of hydrodynamic wakes in dynamical models of large-scale fish schools. [AAM PDF] Physics of Fluids, 2025.
Mittal, R., Seo, JH., Turner, J., Kumar, S., Prakhar, S., Zhou, J., Freeman Scholar Lecture (2021)—Sharp-Interface Immersed Boundary Methods in Fluid Dynamics. Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2024.
Zhou, J., Seo, JH., Mittal, R. Effect of schooling on flow generated sounds from carangiform swimmers. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2024.
Salimi Ashkezari, SF., Detmer, FJ., Mut, F., Chung, BJ., Yu, AK., Stapleton, CJ., See, AP., Amin-Hanjani, S., Charbel, FT., Rezai Jahromi, B., Niemelä, M., Frösen, J., Zhou, J., Maiti, S., Robertson, AM., Cebral, JR. Blebs in intracranial aneurysms: prevalence and general characteristics. Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, 2021.
Oral Presentations:
Jan. 2026 — 2025 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB)
“An Open-Source Flow-Physics Informed Agent-Based Model of Fish Schooling”
Nov. 2024 — 77th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
“Leading-Edge Vortices Predict Efficient Arrangements in Fish Schools”
Jan. 2025 — 2025 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (SICB)
“Impact of Schooling on Flow-Generated Noise in Fish: Fin Synchronization and Spatial Patterns”
Nov. 2024 — 77th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
Nov. 2023 — 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
“Effect of Turbulence on the Hydrodynamics of Fish Schools”Nov. 2022 — 75th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
“Complex Emergent Dynamics in Fish Schools-Insights from a Flow-Physics-Informed Model of Collective Swimming in Fish”Apr. 2022 — Remote Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows (ReCoVor)
“A Flow-Physics-Informed Dynamic Model of Collective Swimming of Fish”Mar. 2022 — Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022 (OSM)
“A Flow-Physics Informed Dynamical Model of Collective Swimming in Fish - Exploring Behavior, Sensing and Flow Interactions in Fish Schools”Nov. 2021 — 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
“A Flow-Physics-Informed Dynamic Model of Collective Swimming in Fish”
Poster Presentations:
Nov. 2023— 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APSDFD)
“Exploring predator interaction with a school of prey fish using a flow-physics informed agent-based model”Oct. 2019 — Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2019 Annual Meeting
“Distribution of Blebs on the Intracranial Aneurysm Walls”Oct. 2019 — Science 2019: The University of Pittsburgh’s annual celebration of science and technology
“Distribution of Blebs on the Intracranial Aneurysm Walls”