Dr Ankush Aggarwal
- Senior Lecturer (Infrastructure & Environment)
telephone:
01413304857
email:
Ankush.Aggarwal@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
Room 621, Rankine Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8LT
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Engineering and a member of the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (GCEC) at the University of Glasgow. I work in the area of computational biomechanics with application to cardiovascular healthcare. I started my college education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and studied Aerospace Engineering. From there, I moved to the University of California, Los Angeles and obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Cardiovascular Simulation (CCS), part of ICES, at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining University of Glasgow, I was a National Research Network Fellow at the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (ZCCE), Swansea University for three years.
Research interests
More information can be found on Computational Biomechanics Research Group website
Our research focusses on cardiovascular biomechanics using numerical and computational tools. The ongoing projects can be catergorized into four groups as shown below.
Publications
Selected publications
Aggarwal, A. , Mortensen, P., Hao, J., Kaczmarczyk, Ł. , Cheung, A. T., Al Ghofaily, L., Gorman, R. C., Desai, N. D., Bavaria, J. E. and Pouch, A. M. (2023) Strain estimation in aortic roots from 4D echocardiographic images using medial modeling and deformable registration. Medical Image Analysis, 87, 102804. (doi: 10.1016/j.media.2023.102804) (PMID:37060701)
Aggarwal, A. , Jensen, B. S. , Pant, S. and Lee, C.-H. (2023) Strain energy density as a Gaussian process and its utilization in stochastic finite element analysis: application to planar soft tissues. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 404, 115812. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2022.115812)
Aggarwal, A. , Hudson, L. T., Laurence, D. W., Lee, C.-H. and Pant, S. (2023) A Bayesian constitutive model selection framework for biaxial mechanical testing of planar soft tissues: application to porcine aortic valves. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 138, 105657. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105657)
Aggarwal, A. , Lombardi, D. and Pant, S. (2021) An information-theoretic framework for optimal design: analysis of protocols for estimating soft tissue parameters in biaxial experiments. Axioms, 10(2), 79. (doi: 10.3390/axioms10020079)
Aggarwal, A. and Pant, S. (2020) Beyond Newton: a new root-finding fixed-point iteration for nonlinear equations. Algorithms, 13(4), 78. (doi: 10.3390/a13040078)
Mei, Y., Hurtado, D. E., Pant, S. and Aggarwal, A. (2018) On improving the numerical convergence of highly nonlinear elasticity problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 337, pp. 110-127. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2018.03.033)
Aggarwal, A. (2018) Determination of prestress and elastic properties of virus capsids. Physical Review E, 97, 032414. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.032414) (PMID:29776150)
Aggarwal, A. (2017) An improved parameter estimation and comparison for soft tissue constitutive models containing an exponential function. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 16(4), pp. 1309-1327. (doi: 10.1007/s10237-017-0889-3) (PMID:28251368) (PMCID:PMC5511618)
Aggarwal, A. , Pouch, A. M., Lai, E., Lesicko, J., Yushkevich, P. A., Gorman III, J. H., Gorman, R. C. and Sacks, M. S. (2016) In-vivo heterogeneous functional and residual strains in human aortic valve leaflets. Journal of Biomechanics, 49(12), pp. 2481-2490. (doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2016.04.038) (PMID:27207385) (PMCID:PMC5028253)
Aggarwal, A. and Sacks, M. S. (2016) An inverse modeling approach for semilunar heart valve leaflet mechanics: exploitation of tissue structure. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 15(4), pp. 909-932. (doi: 10.1007/s10237-015-0732-7) (PMID:26449480)
Aggarwal, A. , May, E. R., Brooks, C. L. and Klug, W. S. (2016) Nonuniform elastic properties of macromolecules and effect of prestrain on their continuum nature. Physical Review E, 93, 012417. (doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.012417) (PMID:2687111)
Aggarwal, A. , Ferrari, G., Joyce, E., Daniels, M. J., Sainger, R., Gorman, J. H., Gorman, R. and Sacks, M. S. (2014) Architectural trends in the human normal and bicuspid aortic valve leaflet and its relevance to valve disease. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 42(5), pp. 986-998. (doi: 10.1007/s10439-014-0973-0) (PMID:24488233) (PMCID:PMC4364391)
Aggarwal, A. , Chen, J.-S. and Klug, W.S. (2014) A meshfree method for mechanics and conformational change of proteins and their assemblies. CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, 98(18), pp. 69-99.
Aggarwal, A. , Rudnick, J., Bruinsma, R.F. and Klug, W.S. (2012) Elasticity theory of macromolecular aggregates. Physical Review Letters, 109, 148102. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.148102) (PMID:23083291)
All publications
Grants
Principal Investigator (extramural grants)
Principal Investigator (small extramural grants)
Co-Investigator
- KESS II 2017 - 2020
Analysis of mechanisms involved in shear stress induced microparticle generation and microparticle mediated effects - Model2Decision ESPRC Network 2017 - 2018
Do self-expandable artificial valves offer an advantage over balloon-expandable valves in patients with calcified aortic roots?
Supervision
PhD Students
- Alistair McQueen
Frontiers In Revascularisation STrategy: Tailoring Intervention using Modelling and Experiments - André Fensterseifer Schmidt
An in silico assessment of drug-coated balloon technology - Marcia McSwegan
Modelling in vitro host-parasite infection - Jude Mohamed Osman Hussain
An experimental and computational investigation of aortic vessels - Marcell Illyes
Determination of governing equations from data - Claire Rosnel
Aortic growth and remodeling in Marfan patients - Silvia Renon
I am looking for motivated students to work with me towards their PhD in computational cardiovascular mechanics. Details are available here.
If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me.
- McSwegan, Marcia
Modelling in vitro host-parasite infection - Mohamed Osman Hussain, Jude
An experimental and computational investigation of aortic vessels
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Peter Mortensen
- Ross Williams
Bachelors/Masters/Placement Project Students
- Caitlin Owens, Undergraduate Project Student 2022-23
- Nick Skinner, Undergraduate Project Student 2022-23
Previous members
- Shiting Huang, Masters Project Student 2021-22
- Yining Guo, Masters Project Student 2021-22
- Indulekha Pallippurath, Masters Project Student 2021-22
- Emma Reilly, Nuffield Placement Student 2022
- Emma Laird, Nuffield Placement Student 2022
- Sabari Chandra Sekhar, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Zhibo Chen, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Riya Dhruw, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Aurélien Goupilleau, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Kerong Ren, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Yalin Wang, Masters Project Student 2020-21
- Lisa Tran, Nuffield Placement Student 2021
- Ioannis Vrettakos, Undergraduate Project Student 2020-21
- Preslav Aleksandrov, Undergraduate Project Student 2019-20
- Zongchang Li, Masters Project Student 2019-20
- Tsz San Bernard Lai, Masters Project Student 2019-20
- Nowar AlDubaee, Nuffield Placement Student 2020
- Dr. Heleen Fehervary, Postdoctoral Researcher 2019
- Dr. Pradeep Keshavanarayana, Postdoctoral Researcher 2019
- Dr. Yue Mei, Postdoctoral Researcher 2017-18
- Alexander Steele, Masters Project Student 2019
- Kevin Philip James, Masters Project Student 2019
- Bashir Balogun, Undergraduate Project Student 2017-18
- Zainab Abdullah, Undergraduate Project Student 2017-18
- Joseph Pereira, Undergraduate Project Student 2017-18
- Ahmed Al Kindi, Undergraduate Project Student 2016-17
- James Locke, Undergraduate Project Student 2016-17
Additional information
I am looking for motivated PhD students. Details are available here.
If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to email me.