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Researcher · Global Engineering and Materials (United States) · United States

Jim Lua

Jim Lua publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques, Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization and Numerical methods in engineering.

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,298,901
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,155,359
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
186
Citations per work
8.9
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 80% in Computational Mechanics
Jim Lua

What does Jim Lua research?

Jim Lua's work is mostly in Engineering (81%).

Physical Sciences: 17 works · 81.3% of their workEngineering: 17 works · 81.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 6 works · 27.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 23.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 4 works · 16.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 1 works · 5.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 works · 5.1% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 18.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJim Lua21works
Physical Sciences81%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1781.3%
  2. Everything else418.7%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics27% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials24% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering17% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jim Lua's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Finite Elements, NURBS, Radial Basis Functions, Finite Element Method, Fracture, Functionally Graded Materials and Meshless Methods.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Fluid-Structure Interaction112 topics
  2. Finite Elements91 topic
  3. NURBS91 topic
  4. Radial Basis Functions72 topics
  5. Finite Element Method51 topic
  6. Fracture51 topic
  7. Functionally Graded Materials51 topic
  8. Meshless Methods51 topic
  9. Adaptive Mesh Refinement42 topics
  10. Cohesive Zone Models41 topic
  11. Delamination41 topic
  12. High-Order Schemes42 topics
  13. Assembly Planning21 topic
  14. Design for Manufacture21 topic
  15. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods21 topic
  16. Finite Element Methods21 topic
  17. Kinematic Analysis21 topic
  18. Robot Manipulators21 topic
  19. Shock-Wave Interactions21 topic
  20. Turbulence Modeling21 topic

Where does Jim Lua work?

Jim Lua's main affiliation in the publication record is Global Engineering and Materials (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Jim Lua have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 186 citations for Jim Lua, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,298,901 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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