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Peter Balogh

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engr

324A Mechanical Engineering Center (ME)

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/

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 .

Mir Md Nasim Hossain, Nien-Wen Hu, Maram Abdelhamid, Simerpreet Singh, Walter L Murfee, Peter Balogh. 2023. "Angiogenic Microvascular Wall Shear Stress Patterns Revealed Through Three-Dimensional Red Blood Cell Resolved Modeling." Function .

Nien-Wen Hu, Camille D Rodriguez, Julian A Rey, Maximillian J Rozenblum, Connor P Courtney, Peter Balogh, Malisa Sarntinoranont, Walter L Murfee. 2022. "Estimation of shear stress values along endothelial tip cells past the lumen of capillary sprouts." Microvascular Research , vol. 142 , pp. 104360.

Nien‐Wen Hu, Banks Lomel, Peter Balogh, Walter L. Murfee. 2022. "Estimation of Shear Stress Heterogeneity along Capillary Segments in Angiogenic Rat Mesenteric Microvascular Networks." The FASEB Journal , vol. 36 , no. S1 .

Peter Balogh, John Gounley, Sayan Roychowdhury, Amanda Randles. 2021. "A data-driven approach to modeling cancer cell mechanics during microcirculatory transport." Scientific Reports , vol. 11 , no. 1 .

Daniel F. Puleri, Peter Balogh, Amanda Randles. 2021. "Computational models of cancer cell transport through the microcirculation." Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology .

Saman Ebrahimi, Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2021. "Motion of a capsule in a curved tube." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 907 .

Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2019. "Three‐dimensional distribution of wall shear stress and its gradient in red cell‐resolved computational modeling of blood flow in in vivo‐like microvascular networks." Physiological Reports , vol. 7 , no. 9 , pp. e14067.

Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2019. "The cell-free layer in simulated microvascular networks." Journal of Fluid Mechanics , vol. 864 , pp. 768-806.

Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2018. "Analysis of red blood cell partitioning at bifurcations in simulated microvascular networks." Physics of Fluids , vol. 30 , no. 5 , pp. 051902.

Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2017. "Direct Numerical Simulation of Cellular-Scale Blood Flow in 3D Microvascular Networks." Biophysical Journal , vol. 113 , no. 12 , pp. 2815-2826.

Peter Balogh, Prosenjit Bagchi. 2017. "A computational approach to modeling cellular-scale blood flow in complex geometry." Journal of Computational Physics , vol. 334 , pp. 280--307.

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.

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