Jung Hee Seo

Jung-Hee is an associate research professor at the Johns Hopkins University, department of mechanical engineering. His research is focused on the biological and biomedical fluid flow and his expertise is computational modeling of multiphysics problems including fluid-structure interaction, acoustics, and chemical transport. He received his PhD at the Korea University in 2006 and was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Stanford University, department of aeronautics and astronautics. He joined the Johns Hopkins in 2009 and performed the research projects about human phonation, cardiovascular flow, heart sound, and flying animals.

Education History

• PhD Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Korea University

Work Experience

Associate Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Publications

1. Mittal, R. and Seo, J. H., “Origin and evolution of immersed boundary methods in computational fluid dynamics”, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 8, No. 10, 100501, 2023.
2. Seo, J. H., Zhang, Y., Mittal, R., Cattafesta III, L. N., “Vortex-induced sound prediction of slat noise from time-resolved particle image velocimetry data,” Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 64, No. 5, 99, 2023.
3. Kuhar, S., Seo, J. H., Pasricha, P., Mittal, R., “StomachSim: An in-silico simulator of gastric biomechanics with application to pyloroplasty,” Physiology, Vol. 38, S1, 5729950, 2023.
4. Ni, C., Solano, T., Shoele, K., Seo, J. H., Mittal, R., “Face masks provide high outward protection despite peripheral leakage: Insights from a reduced-order model of face mask aerodynamics,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 35, No. 6, 061911, 2023.
5. Mittal, R., Breuer, K., and Seo, J. H., “The Flow Physics of Face Masks,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 55: 193-211, https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-fluid-120720-035029, 2023.
6. Lee, D. H., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R., “Quantifying the Effect of Body Habitus on Cardiac Auscultation Via Computational Hemoacoustics,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 145, No. 2, 024503, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055513, 2023.
7. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “Improved swimming performance in schooling fish via leading-edge vortex enhancement,” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 17, No. 6, 066020, doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ac9bb4, 2022.
8. Kuhar, S., Lee, J. H., Seo, J. H., Pasricha, P. J., and Mittal, R., “Effect of stomach motility on food hydrolysis and gastric emptying: Insight from computational models,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 34, No. 11, 111909, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0120933, 2022.
9. Lee, J. H., Kuhar, S., Seo, J. H., Pasricha, P. J., and Mittal, R., “Computational Modeling of Drug Dissolution in Human Stomach: Effects of Posture and Gastroparesis on Drug Bioavailability,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 34, 081904, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877, 2022.
10. Eslami, P., Seo, J. H., Rahsepar, A. A., Shafique, A., Rollison, S. F, Lardo, A. C., Mittal, R., and Chen, M. Y., “A Noninvasive Assessment of Flow Based on Contrast Dispersion in Computed Tomography Angiography: A Computational and Experimental Phantom Study,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 9, 091009, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4053997, 2022.
11. Aghaei-Jouybari, M., Seo, J. H., Yuan, J., Mittal, R., Meneveau, C., “Contributions to pressure drag in rough-wall turbulent flows: Insights from force partitioning,” Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 7, No. 8, 084602, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.084602, 2022.
12. Seo, J. H., Menon, K., and Mittal, R., “A Method for Partitioning the Sources of Aerodynamic Loading Noise in Vortex Dominated Flows,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 34, 053607, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0094697, 2022.
13. Bailoor, S., Seo, J.H., Dasi, L., Schena, S., and Mittal, R., “Towards Longitudinal Monitoring of Leaflet Mobility in Prosthetic Aortic Valves via In-Situ Pressure Sensors: In-Silico Modeling and Analysis,” Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13239-022-00635-1, 2022.
14. Wang, Z., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R., “Mitral Valve Regurgitation Murmurs – Insights from Hemoacoustic Computational Modeling,” Fluids, Vol. 7, No. 5, 164, https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7050164, 2022.
15. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “Computational Modeling of Drug Dissolution in the Human Stomach,” Frontiers in Physiology, Vol. 12, https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2021.755997, 2022.
16. Noda, H., Mittal, R., Seo, J.-H., and Menon, K., “Investigation of Aerodynamic Instability Vibration of Rectangular Cylinder Based on Energy Transfer,” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 220, No. 1, 104825, 2022.
17. Zhu, C., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R., “Computational Modeling of Aortic Stenosis with a Reduced Degree-of-freedom Fluid-structure Interaction Valve Model,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 144, No. 3, 031012, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052576, 2021.
18. Bailoor, S., Seo, J. H., Schena, S., and Mittal, R., “Detecting Aortic Valve Anomaly From Induced Murmurs: Insights From Computational Hemodynamic Models,” Frontiers in Physiology, Vol. 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.734224, 2021.
19. Bailoor, S., Seo, J. H., Dasi, L. P., Schena, S., and Mittal, R., “Prosthetic Valve Monitoring via In Situ Pressure Sensors: In Silico Concept Evaluation using Supervised Learning,” Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, available online, DOI: 10.1007/s13239-021-00553-8, 2021.
20. Seo, J. H., Hedrick, T. L., and Mittal, R., “Mosquitoes buzz and fruit flies don’t – a comparative aeroacoustic analysis of wing-tone generation”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 16, No. 4, 046019, DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/ac0120, 2021.
21. Bailoor, S., Seo, J. H., Dasi, L. P., Schena, S., and Mittal, R., “A computational study of the hemodynamics of bioprosthetic aortic valves with reduced leaflet motion,” Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 120, 110350, 2021.
22. Seo, J. H., Zhu, C., Resar, J., and Mittal, R. “Flow physics of normal and abnormal bioprosthetic aortic valves.” International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Vol. 86, 108740, 2020.
23. Mittal, R., Ni, R., and Seo, J. H. “The flow physics of COVID-19,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 894, F2, doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.330, 2020.
24. Hao, Y., Seo, J. H., Hu, Y., Mao, H. Q., and Mittal, R. “Flow physics and mixing quality in a confined impinging jet mixer.” AIP advances, Vol. 10, No. 4, 045105, 2020.
25. Seo, J. H., Hedrick, T. L., and Mittal, R., “Mechanism and scaling of wing tone generation in mosquitoes”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 016008, 2020.
26. Hu, Y. et al., “Kinetic Control in Assembly of Plasmid DNA/Polycation Complex Nanoparticles,” ACS Nano, Vol. 13, No. 9, pp. 10161-10178, 2019.
27. Eslami, P., Seo, J. H., Lardo, A. C., Chen, M. Y., and Mittal, R. “Flow Dynamics in the Aortic Arch and Its Effect on the Arterial Input Function in Cardiac Computed Tomography,” Journal of biomechanical engineering, Vol. 141, No. 10, 2019.
28. Zhu, C., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R. “A Graph-partitioned Sharp-interface Immersed Boundary Solver for Efficient Solution of Internal Flows,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 386, pp. 37-46, 2019.
29. Bailoor, S., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R. “Vortex Shedding from a Circular Cylinder in Shear-thinning Carreau Fluids,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 31, No. 1, 011703, 2019.
30. Zhu, C., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R. “Computational Modeling and Analysis of Murmurs Generated by Modeled Aortic Stenoses,” Journal of biomechanical engineering, Vol. 141, No. 4, 041007, 2019.
31. Zhu, C., Seo, J. H., and Mittal, R., “Computational Modelling and Analysis of Haemodynamics in a Simple Model of Aortic Stenosis,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 851, pp. 23-49, 2018.
32. Seo, J. H., Eslami, P., Caplan, J., Tamargo, R., and Mittal, R., “A Highly Automated Computational Method for Modeling Intracranial Aneurysm Hemodynamics,” Frontiers of Physiology, Vol. 9, pp. 681, 2018.
33. Seo, J. H., Cadieux1, F., Mittal, R., Deem, E. A., and Cattafesta, L. N., “Effect of Synthetic Jet Modulation Schemes on the Reduction of a Laminar Separation Bubble,” Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 3, No. 3, 033901, 2018.
34. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “Flow Physics and Frequency Scaling of Sweeping Jet Fluidic Oscillators,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 56(6), pp. 2208-2219, 2018.
35. Seo, J. H., Bakhshaee, H, Garreau, G., Zhu, C., Andreou, A., and Mittal, R., “A Method for the Computational Modeling of the Physics of Heart Murmurs,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 336, pp. 546-568, 2017.
36. Zhu, C., Seo, J. H., Bakhshaee, H., and Mittal, R., “A Computational Method for Analyzing the Biomechanics of Arterial Bruits,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 139(5), 051008, 2017.
37. Bailoor, S., Annangi, A., Seo, J. H., and Bhardwaj, R., “A Fluid-Structure Interaction Solver for Compressible Flows with Applications in Blast Loading on Thin Elastic Structures,” Applied Mathematical Modelling, Vol. 52, Dec. 2017, pp.470-492, 2017.
38. Harfi, T. T., Seo, J. H., Yasir, H. S., Welsh, N., Mayer, S., Abraham, T. P., George, R. T., and Mittal, R., “The E-Wave Propagation Index (EPI): A Novel Echocardiographic Parameter for Prediction of Left Ventricular Thrombus. Derivation from Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling and Validation on Human Subjects,” International Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 227, pp. 662-667, 2017.
39. Abd, T. T., Shafique, A. I., Yasir, H. S., Seo, J. H., George, R. T., Mittal, R., and Lardo, A. C., “Effect of intravenous infusion of iodinated contrast media on the coronary blood flow in dogs,” IJC Heart & Vasculature, Vol. 12, pp. 11-14, DOI:10.1016/j.ijcha.2016.05.014, 2016.
40. Seo, J. H., Abd, T., George, R. T., and Mittal, R., “A Coupled Chemo-Fluidic Computational Model for Thrombogenesis in Infarcted Left Ventricles,” American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Vol. 310(11), pp. H1567-H1582, DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00855.2015, 2016.
41. Mittal, R., Seo, J. H., Vedula, V., Choi, Y. J., Liu, H., Huang, H., Jain, S., Younes, L., Abraham, T., and George, R, “Computational Modeling of Cardiac Hemodynamics: Current Status and Future Outlook,” Journal of Computational Physics,Vol. 305, pp. 1065-1082, 2016.
42. Vedula, V., Seo, J. H., Lardo, A., and Mittal, R., “Effect of Trabeculae and Papillary Muscles on the Hemodynamics of the Left Ventricle,” Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 30(1-2), pp. 3-21, 2016.
43. Lardo, A. C., Rahsepar, A. A., Seo, J. H., Eslami, P., Korley, F., Kishi, S., Abd, T., Mittal, R., George, R. T., “Estimating Coronary Blood Flow using Computed Tomography Transluminal Attenuation Flow Encoding (TAFE): Formulation, Preclinical Validation and Clinical Feasibility,” Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, Vol. 9(6), pp. 559-566, 2015.
44. Eslami, P., Seo, J. H., Lardo, A. C., George, R., Rahsepar, A., and Mittal, R., “Computational Study of Transluminal Attenuation Gradient in Models of Stenosed Coronary Arteries,” Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 137(9), DOI:10.1115/1.4030891, 2015.
45. Seo, J. H., Vedula, V., Abraham, T., Lardo, A. C., Dawoud, F., Luo, H., and Mittal, R., “Effect of Mitral Valve on the Diastolic Flow Pattern,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 26(12) 121901, 2014.
46. Vedula, V., Fortini, S., Seo, J. H., Querzoli, G., Mittal, R., “Computational Modeling and Validation of Intraventricular Flow in a Simple Model of the Left Ventricle,” Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 28(6) pp. 589-604, 2014.
47. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “Effect of Diastolic Flow Patterns on the Function of the Left Ventricle,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 25(11) 110801, 2013.
48. Seo, J. H., Vedula, V., Abraham, T., and Mittal, R., “Multiphysics Computational Models for Cardiac Flow and Virtual Cardiography,”, Intl J Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 29(8) pp. 850-869, 2013.
49. Bhardwaj, R., Ziegler, K., Seo, J. H., Ramesh, K.T. and Nguyen, T.D. “A Computational Model of Blast Loading on The Human Eye,” Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 13(1) pp. 123-140, 2014.
50. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “A Coupled Flow-Acoustic Computational Study of Bruit from a Modeled Stenosed Artery,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol. 50, pp. 1025-1035, 2012.
51. Zheng, X., Seo, J. H., Vedula, V., Abraham, T., and Mittal, R., “Computational Modeling and Analysis of Intracardiac Flows in Simple Models of the Left Ventricle,” European Journal of Mechanics- B/Fluids, Vol. 35, pp. 31-39, 2012.
52. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “A Sharp-interface Immersed Boundary Method with Improved Mass Conservation and Reduced Spurious Pressure Oscillations,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 230, pp. 7347-7363, 2011.
53. Mittal, R., Zheng, X., Bhardwaj, R., Seo, J. H., Xue, Q., and Beilamowicz, S., “Towards a Simulation-based Tool for the Treatment of Vocal Fold Paralysis,” Frontiers in Physiology Computational Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2, 0019, 2011.
54. Seo, J. H. and Mittal, R., “A High-order Immersed Boundary Method for Acoustic Wave Scattering and Low-Mach Number Flow-Induced Sound in Complex Geometries,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 230, pp. 1000-1019, 2011.
55. Seo, J. H., Lele, S. K., and Tryggvason, G., “Investigation and Modeling of Bubble-Bubble Interaction Effect in Homogeneous Bubbly Flows,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 22, 063302, 2010.
56. Moon, Y. J., Seo, J. H., Bae, Y. M., Roger, M., and Becker, S., “A Hybrid Prediction Method for Low-subsonic Turbulent Flow Noise,” Computers and Fluids, Vol. 39, pp. 1125-1135, 2010.
57. Seo, J. H., Moon, Y. J., and Shin, B. R., “Prediction of Cavitating Flow Noise by Direct Numerical Simulation,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 227, pp. 6511-6531, 2008.
58. Seo, J. H. and Moon, Y. J., “Aerodynamic Noise Prediction for Long-span Bodies,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 306, pp. 564-579, 2007.
59. Seo, J. H. and Moon, Y. J., “Linearized Perturbed Compressible Equations for Low Mach Number Aeroacoustics,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 218, pp. 702-719, 2006.
60. Seo, J. H., Moon, Y. J., “The Perturbed Compressible Equations for Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction at Low Mach Numbers,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp.1716-1724, 2005.
61. Moon, Y. J. and Seo, J. H., “A Splitting Method for Aeroacoustic Noise Prediction of Low Mach Number Viscous Flows,” International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.1-16, 2005.
62. Moon, Y. J., Oh, H. J., Seo, J. H., “Aerodynamic Investigation of Three-Dimensional Wings in Ground Effect for Aero-levitation Electric Vehicle,” Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol.9, pp.485-494, 2005.
63. Moon, Y. J., Seo, J. H., Kho, S. R., and Cho, Y., “Aeroacoustic Tonal Noise Prediction of Open Cavity Flows Involving Feedback,” Computational Mechanics, Vol. 31, pp. 359-366, 2003.

Professional Organizations

American Physical Society