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Researcher · University of California, Riverside · United States

Kambiz Vafai

Kambiz Vafai publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Biomedical Engineering, on topics such as Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer, Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media and Heat Transfer and Optimization.

ORCID 0000-0002-9720-3618 OpenAlex
World rank
#50,689
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,578
of 1,627,098
Works
580
Citations
32k
Citations per work
55.7
h-index
79
i10-index 351Top 0.1% in Mechanical Engineering
Kambiz Vafai

What does Kambiz Vafai research?

Kambiz Vafai's work is mostly in Engineering (71%), Energy (3%), Materials Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 441 works · 76.1% of their workEngineering: 411 works · 70.9% of their workMechanical Engineering: 147 works · 25.3% of their workComputational Mechanics: 134 works · 23.1% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 104 works · 18.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 26 works · 4.5% of their workEnergy: 16 works · 2.7% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 16 works · 2.7% of their workMaterials Science: 14 works · 2.5% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 14 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 139 works · 23.9% of their workTHEIR WORKKambiz Vafai580works
Physical Sciences76%

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. Engineering41170.9%
    2. Energy162.7%
    3. Materials Science142.5%
  2. Everything else13923.9%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering25% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics23% of their works
  3. 3Biomedical Engineering18% of their works
  4. 4Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment3% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kambiz Vafai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heat Transfer, Thermal Conductivity, Experimental Investigation, Fluid Flow, Pressure Drop, Convective Transport, Nanofluids and Porous Media.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Heat Transfer7876 topics
  2. Thermal Conductivity4022 topics
  3. Experimental Investigation3612 topics
  4. Fluid Flow3062 topics
  5. Pressure Drop3062 topics
  6. Convective Transport2451 topic
  7. Nanofluids2451 topic
  8. Porous Media2172 topics
  9. Heat Exchangers2062 topics
  10. Metal Foams1571 topic
  11. Packed Beds1571 topic
  12. Convective Heat Transfer1491 topic
  13. Microchannel1491 topic
  14. Friction Factor1161 topic
  15. Solar Air Heater1161 topic
  16. Turbulent Flows631 topic
  17. Vortex Dynamics631 topic
  18. Immersed Boundary Method601 topic
  19. Lattice Boltzmann Method601 topic
  20. Boiling Heat Transfer571 topic
  21. Microchannels571 topic
  22. Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Technology291 topic
  23. Solar Thermal Collectors291 topic

Where does Kambiz Vafai work?

Kambiz Vafai's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Riverside, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kambiz Vafai have?

OpenAlex counts 580 works and 32,294 citations for Kambiz Vafai, an h-index of 79, ranking #50,689 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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