Peter Balogh

Assistant Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
About Me
Peter received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. After working in industry for a number of years analyzing fluid/thermal systems of power plants, he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2018 working with Prosenjit Bagchi in the area of computational biofluid dynamics. He then did a postdoc with Amanda Randles at Duke University in the biomedical engineering department, and joined NJIT in the Fall of 2021. Peter developed a new method for modeling flows of 3D biological cells through highly complex geometries, which he has used to provide new and novel insights into the microhydrodynamics of blood flow. He was awarded the 2019 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society, which is an annual award given to one young scientist for outstanding thesis work in the area of fluid dynamics. His work has been featured on the cover of the Biophysical Journal, was selected as a Feature Story for the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and was featured in the press for the National Science Foundation. Peter’s research interests include computational fluid dynamics modeling of biological flows in the microcirculation, numerical methods for complex fluid-structure interfaces, and code development for high performance computing. While a mechanical engineer at heart, his research is highly multidisciplinary, and he thoroughly enjoys learning about and investigating fluid mechanical phenomena using ideas from engineering, physics, and biology via high performance computing.
Education
Ph.D.; Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Mechanical Engineering; 2018
B.S.; University of Notre Dame; Mechanical Engineering; 2004
Awards & Honors
2019 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/balogh-group/
2026 Fall Courses
ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES
ME 407 - HEAT TRANSFER
ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A
ME 491 - MECH ENGR PROJECT B
ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Past Courses
IE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
ME 407: HEAT TRANSFER
ME 618: ST: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND BIO-INSPIRED COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
ME 791: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COLLOQUIUM
Research Interests
Angiogenesis and cellular-scale fluid dynamics

Large-scale simulation of cellular-scale flows

Lymphatic system transport of cancer cells

Numerical methods for flows involving complex interfaces (e.g. deformable, moving)

Code development and parallelization for high performance computing

Multi-phase, particulate, and cellular flows
Journal Article
Peter Balogh, Osama Harraz. 2026. "Integrated experimental and theoretical approaches to microvascular transport and regulation." Microvascular Research, vol. 166.
Mir Md Hossain, Nien Wen Hu, Liam B. Walters, Ali Kazempour, Julia Withrow, Walter L. Murfee, Peter Balogh. 2026. "Estimation of 3D wall shear stress in new blood vessel sprouts using high-fidelity simulations." Biophysical Journal, vol. 125, no. 5, pp. 1230-1246.
Nien-Wen Hu, Mir Md Nasim Hossain, Julia Withrow, Ryan Walker, Ali Kazempour, Nikolaos Tsoukias, Donald G Welsh, Walter L Murfee, Peter Balogh. 2025. "Identification of shear stress as a potential vasoconduction signal across microvascular networks." Microvascular Research / Elsevier, vol. 162.
Mir Md Nasim Hossain, Nien-Wen Hu, Ali Kazempour, Walter Lee Murfee, Peter Balogh. 2024. "Hemodynamic Characteristics of a Tortuous Microvessel Using High-Fidelity Red Blood Cell Resolved Simulations." Microcirculation.
Ali Kazempour, Peter Balogh. 2024. "Margination behavior of a circulating cell in a tortuous microvessel." Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, no. 9.
Nien-Wen Hu, Banks M. Lomel, Elijah W. Rice, Nasim Hossain, Malisa Sarntinoranont, Timothy W. Secomb, Walter L. Murfee, Peter Balogh. 2023. "Estimation of Shear Stress Heterogeneity along Capillary Segments in Angiogenic Rat Mesenteric Microvascular Networks." Microcirculation/Wiley.
Chapter
Nien-Wen Hu, Arinola Lampejo, Ariana D Suarez-Martinez, Nicholas Hodges, Mir Md Nasim Hossain, Peter Balogh, Bing Ren, Yong Huang, Jonathan J Adorno, Shashwat S Agarwal, Jacob C Holter, Elton Y Cao, Jonathan W Song, Dorothy N Beck, Shayn M Peirce, Walter L Murfee. "Biomimetic Models for Investigation of Microvascular Remodeling." "Handbook of Microcirculation," Springer, 2025.
Conference Paper
"Enhancing Adaptive Physics Refinement Simulations Through the Addition of Realistic Red Blood Cell Counts"
Association for Computing Machinery: SC '23: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, November, 2023.
"High Performance Adaptive Physics Refinement to Enable Large-Scale Tracking of Cancer Cell Trajectory"
October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2022.