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Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Prasanth P. Nair
Purdue University West Lafayette
2
Shuhua Zeng
Zhejiang University
3
Chihiro Fujio
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
4
Elizabeth K. Benitez
United States Air Force Research Laboratory
5
Yu-shan Meng
Shanghai University
6
Francesco Duronio
University of L'Aquila
7
Pratikkumar Raje
University of Michigan
8
Alessandro Ceci
Sapienza University of Rome
9
Xianliang Chen
Ocean Park Conservation Foundation
10
Tiangang Luo
National University of Defense Technology

Papers

1
Publication in Physics of Fluids (2025) [34 citations, W4408446994]
Physics of Fluids|2025
34 cit.
2
Publication in Combustion and Flame (2025) [25 citations, W4406781621]
Combustion and Flame|2025
25 cit.
3
CFD analysis of hydrogen and methane turbulent transitional under-expanded jets
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow|2024
24 cit.
4
Active control devices of spiked body for drag and heat flux reduction in supersonic/hypersonic flows: State-of-the-art review
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer|2024
21 cit.
5
Effect of jet splitting using passive strut on the performance and thermoacoustic characteristics of a scramjet combustor
Physics of Fluids|2024
18 cit.
6
Influence of passive strut on the mixing and combustion performance enhancement
Acta Astronautica|2024
17 cit.
7
An improved Baldwin–Lomax algebraic wall model for high-speed canonical turbulent boundary layers using established scalings
Journal of Fluid Mechanics|2024
17 cit.
8
Optimization and data mining for shock-induced mixing enhancement inside scramjet using stochastic deep-learning flowfield prediction
Aerospace Science and Technology|2024
17 cit.
9
Publication in Physical Review Fluids (2024) [14 citations, W4396691688]
Physical Review Fluids|2024
14 cit.
10
CFD unified approach under Eulerian–Lagrangian framework for methanol and gasoline direct injection sprays in evaporative and flash boiling conditions
International Journal of Multiphase Flow|2024
14 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Houman Babazadeh
Ton Duc Thang University
2
Silong Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology
3
Pitambar Randive
National Institute Of Technology Silchar
4
Ahmad Shafee
Information Technology Laboratory
5
Zun Cai
National University of Defense Technology
6
James R. Maddison
Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
7
Huangwei Zhang
National University of Singapore
8
Xiaoqiang Tian
China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center
9
Xinguo Dong
Marine Design & Research Institute of China
10
Xianxu Yuan
China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center

Papers

1
Inducing the Preferential Growth of Zn (002) Plane for Long Cycle Aqueous Zn‐Ion Batteries
Advanced Energy Materials|2022
342 cit.
2
Enhancement of blowout limit in a Mach 2.92 cavity-based scramjet combustor by a gliding arc discharge
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute|2022
111 cit.
3
Critical review on local thermal equilibrium and local thermal non-equilibrium approaches for the analysis of forced convective flow through porous media
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer|2022
110 cit.
4
Effect of channel configurations on the thermal management of fast discharging Li-ion battery module with hybrid cooling
Energy|2022
56 cit.
5
Fast sparse flow field prediction around airfoils via multi-head perceptron based deep learning architecture
Aerospace Science and Technology|2022
54 cit.
6
Lithium–sulfur pouch cells with 99% capacity retention for 1000 cycles
Energy & Environmental Science|2024
46 cit.
7
End-gas autoignition and knocking combustion of ammonia/hydrogen/air mixtures in a confined reactor
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy|2022
41 cit.
8
Implications of novel cold plate design with hybrid cooling on thermal management of fast discharging lithium-ion battery
Journal of Energy Storage|2022
40 cit.
9
Structure and dynamics of spray detonation in n-heptane droplet/vapor/air mixtures
Combustion and Flame|2023
38 cit.
10
Semi-confined layered kerosene/air two-phase detonations bounded by nitrogen gas
Combustion and Flame|2023
38 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Chi‐Wang Shu
Brown University
2
Stanley Osher
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Parviz Moin
Flow Analysis (United States)
4
Eitan Tadmor
University of Maryland, College Park
5
Thomas J.R. Hughes
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Graham V. Candler
University of Minnesota System
7
Christer Fureby
Lund University
8
Antony Jameson
Mitchell Institute
9
Miguel R. Visbal
United States Air Force Research Laboratory
10
Joaquim R. R. A. Martins
University of Michigan

Papers

1
Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: Algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations
Journal of Computational Physics|1988
13.9k cit.
2
Efficient Implementation of Weighted ENO Schemes
Journal of Computational Physics|1996
6.5k cit.
3
Isogeometric analysis: CAD, finite elements, NURBS, exact geometry and mesh refinement
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering|2005
6.2k cit.
4
Streamline upwind/Petrov-Galerkin formulations for convection dominated flows with particular emphasis on the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering|1982
5.3k cit.
5
A tensorial approach to computational continuum mechanics using object-oriented techniques
Computers in Physics|1998
5.3k cit.
6
Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II
Journal of Computational Physics|1989
4.9k cit.
7
A Level Set Approach for Computing Solutions to Incompressible Two-Phase Flow
Journal of Computational Physics|1994
4.7k cit.
8
Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes
Journal of Computational Physics|1988
4.7k cit.
9
The Split Bregman Method for L1-Regularized Problems
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences|2009
4.3k cit.
10
Spectral Methods in Fluid Dynamics.
Mathematics of Computation|1991
3.1k cit.

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