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D. B. Spalding

D. B. Spalding publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Combustion and flame dynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows and Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows.

World rank
#15,643
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,435
of 90,785
Works
113
Citations
994
Citations per work
8.8

What does D. B. Spalding research?

Computational Mechanics: 40.3%Mechanical Engineering: 9.7%Aerospace Engineering: 8.9%Ocean Engineering: 7.3%other fields: 33.8%40%top field
Computational Mechanics40.3%Mechanical Engineering9.7%Aerospace Engineering8.9%Ocean Engineering7.3%other fields33.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computational Mechanics40% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering10% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes6% of their works
  6. 6Applied Mathematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D. B. Spalding's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Chemical Kinetics, Combustion Instabilities, Turbulent Flames, Turbulent Flows, Vortex Dynamics and Particles.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Heat Transfer323 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation272 topics
  3. Chemical Kinetics202 topics
  4. Combustion Instabilities151 topic
  5. Turbulent Flames151 topic
  6. Turbulent Flows121 topic
  7. Vortex Dynamics121 topic
  8. Particles71 topic
  9. Turbulence71 topic
  10. Boltzmann Equation51 topic
  11. Combustion51 topic
  12. Convective Heat Transfer51 topic
  13. Detonation Propulsion51 topic
  14. High-Order Schemes51 topic
  15. Kinetic Theory51 topic
  16. Microchannel51 topic
  17. Pulse Detonation Engines51 topic
  18. Soot Formation51 topic
  19. Turbulence Modeling51 topic

Where does D. B. Spalding work?

D. B. Spalding's main affiliation in the publication record is Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does D. B. Spalding have?

Science Explorer counts 113 works and 994 citations for D. B. Spalding, ranking #15,643 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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