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Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Sarah Krainer
Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis
2
Aaron English
University of Parma
3
Yunus Tansu Aksoy
KU Leuven
4
Shubham Sharma
Jadara University
5
Lubomír Bureš
Energy Foundation
6
Sreya Sarkar
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
7
Mianqi Mao
Lanzhou University
8
Defeng Yan
Nanjing Forestry University
9
Santosh Kumar Panda
Central Manufacturing Technology Institute
10
Isaac M. Jackiw
University of Alberta

Rising Stars Papers

1
Scalable robust photothermal superhydrophobic coatings for efficient anti-icing and de-icing in simulated/real environments
Nature Communications|2024
187 cit.
2
Enhancing water transportation capacity by asymmetrical patterned surface with super-wettability
Applied Physics Letters|2024
64 cit.
3
Drag reduction and antifouling of a spontaneous fast moving air film
Journal of Materials Chemistry A|2024
49 cit.
4
High‐Efficiency Water Collection of Superhydrophobic Condensation Absorber
Advanced Science|2025
46 cit.
5
A coarse grid approach for single bubble boiling simulations with the volume of fluid method
Computers & Fluids|2024
16 cit.
6
Superhydrophobic surface with rice leaf structures fabricated by laser processing
Optics & Laser Technology|2025
16 cit.
7
Experimental study on enhanced heat transfer via nanoparticle depositions using TiO <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" altimg="si19.svg" display="inline" id="d1e148"> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow/> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msub> </mml:math> -water nanofluid sprays
Applied Thermal Engineering|2025
15 cit.
8
Nanofluids for Sustainable Heat Transfer Enhancement: Beyond Thermal Conductivity
Sustainability|2025
13 cit.
9
Influence of a Pair of Unequal Rotational Fluxes on Entrained Gaseous Filament
Journal of Fluids Engineering|2024
8 cit.
10
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics modelling of river flows past bridges
Computers & Fluids|2025
7 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Longquan Chen
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2
Peng-Nan Sun
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)
3
Orlando García-Feal
Universidade da Coruña
4
Guoqiang Li
Southwest University of Science and Technology
5
Srikrishna Sahu
Imperial College London
6
M. Serdar Önses
Erciyes University
7
Xianming Dai
Pennsylvania State University
8
M.W. Baltussen
Eindhoven University of Technology
9
Thomas M. Schutzius
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
10
Zhizhao Che
Tianjin University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Inclusion of an acoustic damper term in weakly-compressible SPH models
Journal of Computational Physics|2023
93 cit.
2
Quasi-Liquid Surfaces for Sustainable High-Performance Steam Condensation
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces|2022
85 cit.
3
Pushing the Limit of Beetle‐Inspired Condensation on Biphilic Quasi‐Liquid Surfaces
Advanced Functional Materials|2023
76 cit.
4
Machine Learning-Assisted Pesticide Detection on a Flexible Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate Prepared by Silver Nanoparticles
ACS Applied Nano Materials|2022
71 cit.
5
Photocatalytically reactive surfaces for simultaneous water harvesting and treatment
Nature Sustainability|2023
67 cit.
6
Hydrophilic reentrant SLIPS enabled flow separation for rapid water harvesting
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
53 cit.
7
Self-Healing of Biocompatible Superhydrophobic Coatings: The Interplay of the Size and Loading of Particles
Langmuir|2023
53 cit.
8
Successive Rebounds of Impinging Water Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Langmuir|2022
42 cit.
9
Coarsening‐induced disappearing droplets contribute to condensation
Droplet|2022
41 cit.
10
Microchannel-elevated micromembrane for sustainable phase-separation condensation
Joule|2022
41 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David Quéré
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2
Lei Jiang
Xiamen University
3
Grétar Tryggvason
Johns Hopkins University
4
Stéphane Zaleski
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
5
Howard A. Stone
Princeton University
6
Cameron Tropea
Technische Universität Darmstadt
7
Detlef Lohse
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
8
Stanley Osher
University of California, Los Angeles
9
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University
10
Issam Mudawar
Purdue University West Lafayette

Current Senior Leaders 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 essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II
Journal of Computational Physics|1989
4.9k cit.
3
A Level Set Approach for Computing Solutions to Incompressible Two-Phase Flow
Journal of Computational Physics|1994
4.7k cit.
4
Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes
Journal of Computational Physics|1988
4.7k cit.
5
The Split Bregman Method for L1-Regularized Problems
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences|2009
4.3k cit.
6
Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity
Nature|2011
4.1k cit.
7
Engineering Flows in Small Devices: Microfluidics Toward a Lab-on-a-Chip
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics|2003
3.6k cit.
8
Superhydrophobic states
Nature Materials|2003
3.3k cit.
9
Wetting and Roughness
Annual Review of Materials Research|2008
2.6k cit.
10
Water-repellent legs of water striders
Nature|2004
2.6k cit.

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