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Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Gabriel S. Rocha
Universidade Federal Fluminense
2
Shuhua Zeng
Zhejiang University
3
Donatella Passiatore
University of Salento
4
Yu-shan Meng
Shanghai University
5
Jianan Chen
Nanjing Tech University
6
Tiziana Bräuer
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
7
Peter L. Collen
University of Oxford
8
Aleksander L. Zibitsker
University of Kentucky
9
Marc Henry de Frahan
National Laboratory of the Rockies
10
Piotr Wiśniewski
Silesian University of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
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.
2
Mechanism of active flow control using a novel spike aerodome-channel concept in the hypersonic flow: A numerical study
Physics of Fluids|2024
13 cit.
3
Nonlinear coupled constitutive relations for hypersonic reacting flows with thermal nonequilibrium effect
Physics of Fluids|2025
11 cit.
4
Drag and heat reduction mechanism on a novel combination of spike and micro porous jet concept in supersonic/hypersonic flows
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer|2025
10 cit.
5
Numerical Assessment and Application of Simplified Generalized Hydrodynamic Model in Hypersonic Near-Continuum Flows
AIAA Journal|2024
9 cit.
6
Direct numerical simulation of subharmonic second-mode breakdown in hypersonic boundary layers with finite-rate chemistry
International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow|2024
8 cit.
7
Branch-cut in the shear-stress response function of massless <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mi>λ</mml:mi> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>φ</mml:mi> <mml:mn>4</mml:mn> </mml:msup> </mml:math> with Boltzmann statistics
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.|2024
7 cit.
8
Computational simulation of reentry flows over hypersonic vehicles using nonlinear coupled constitutive relations
AIP conference proceedings|2024
6 cit.
9
Computational Study of Laser-Induced Modes of Ignition in a Coflow Combustor
Flow Turbulence and Combustion|2024
6 cit.
10
Analytical insights into the interplay of momentum, multiplicity, and the speed of sound in heavy-ion collisions
Physical review. C|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Gisu Park
Kyungpook National University
2
Grace Thomas
University of Nottingham
3
Hanyin Chen
Shihezi University
4
Congshan Zhuo
Northwestern Polytechnical University
5
Elena Collado Morata
Safran (France)
6
Fei He
University of Science and Technology of China
7
Jae Gang Kim
Sejong University
8
Stefano Mungiguerra
University of Naples Federico II
9
Hossein Gorji
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
10
Sha Liu
Northwestern Polytechnical University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Experimental study on thermal performance of ultra-thin heat pipe with a novel composite wick structure
International Journal of Thermal Sciences|2023
49 cit.
2
Research progress of protein haze in white wines
Food Science and Human Wellness|2023
28 cit.
3
Analysis of thermal characteristics of the heat pipes with segmented composite wicks
International Journal of Thermal Sciences|2023
28 cit.
4
Interaction of shock train with cavity shear layer in a scramjet isolator
Physics of Fluids|2023
27 cit.
5
Exponential Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook integrator for multiscale particle-based kinetic simulations
Physical review. E|2022
26 cit.
6
Low-frequency shock train oscillation control in a constant area duct
Physics of Fluids|2022
25 cit.
7
Unified gas-kinetic scheme with simplified multi-scale numerical flux for thermodynamic non-equilibrium flow in all flow regimes
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation|2022
23 cit.
8
Numerical simulation of lateral jet interaction with rarefied hypersonic flow over a two-dimensional blunt body
Physics of Fluids|2023
23 cit.
9
Transient heat dissipation performances of transpiration cooling with coolant phase change
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer|2022
22 cit.
10
Critical assessment of various particle Fokker–Planck models for monatomic rarefied gas flows
Physics of Fluids|2023
22 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Chi‐Wang Shu
Brown University
2
Stanley Osher
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Graham V. Candler
University of Minnesota System
4
Iain D. Boyd
University of Colorado Boulder
5
Pierre Lallemand
Cleveland Sleep Research Center
6
Kun Xu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
7
Bram van Leer
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
8
Paul R. Woodward
University of Minnesota
9
Eitan Tadmor
University of Maryland, College Park
10
Moritz Diehl
University of Freiburg

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
Towards the ultimate conservative difference scheme. V. A second-order sequel to Godunov's method
Journal of Computational Physics|1979
7k cit.
3
Efficient Implementation of Weighted ENO Schemes
Journal of Computational Physics|1996
6.5k cit.
4
Lattice BGK Models for Navier-Stokes Equation
Europhysics Letters (EPL)|1992
5.2k cit.
5
Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II
Journal of Computational Physics|1989
4.9k cit.
6
A Level Set Approach for Computing Solutions to Incompressible Two-Phase Flow
Journal of Computational Physics|1994
4.7k cit.
7
Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes
Journal of Computational Physics|1988
4.7k cit.
8
The Split Bregman Method for L1-Regularized Problems
SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences|2009
4.3k cit.
9
The Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) for gas-dynamical simulations
Journal of Computational Physics|1984
4k cit.
10
CasADi: a software framework for nonlinear optimization and optimal control
Mathematical Programming Computation|2018
3.7k cit.

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