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Researcher · Brigham Young University · United States

Merrill Beckstead

Merrill Beckstead publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Energetic Materials and Combustion, Rocket and propulsion systems research and Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies.

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World rank
#1,079,068
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#349,827
of 1,627,098
Works
47
Citations
665
Citations per work
14.1
h-index
16
i10-index 21Top 10% in Aerospace Engineering
Merrill Beckstead

What does Merrill Beckstead research?

Merrill Beckstead's work is mostly in Engineering (79%), Chemical Engineering (7%), Materials Science (6%).

Physical Sciences: 43 works · 92.4% of their workEngineering: 37 works · 79.3% of their workAerospace Engineering: 17 works · 35.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 14 works · 29.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 4 works · 8.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 6.2% of their workChemical Engineering: 3 works · 6.9% of their workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 3 works · 6.9% of their workMaterials Science: 3 works · 6.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 3 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMerrill Beckstead47works
Physical Sciences92%

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. Engineering3779.3%
    2. Chemical Engineering36.9%
    3. Materials Science36.2%
  2. Everything else47.6%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering35% of their works
  2. 2Mechanics of Materials29% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes7% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry6% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merrill Beckstead's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Thermal Decomposition, Combustion Instabilities, Energetic Salts, ReaxFF, Hybrid Rocket Propulsion, Regression Rate Behavior, Chemical Kinetics and Combustion.

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. Thermal Decomposition462 topics
  2. Combustion Instabilities382 topics
  3. Energetic Salts381 topic
  4. ReaxFF381 topic
  5. Hybrid Rocket Propulsion301 topic
  6. Regression Rate Behavior301 topic
  7. Chemical Kinetics172 topics
  8. Combustion91 topic
  9. Detonation Propulsion91 topic
  10. Pulse Detonation Engines91 topic
  11. Soot Formation91 topic
  12. Isoconversional Methods81 topic
  13. Kinetic Analysis81 topic
  14. Large-Eddy Simulation81 topic
  15. Turbulent Flames81 topic
  16. Cryogenic Storage41 topic
  17. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)41 topic
  18. Inverse Analysis31 topic
  19. Radiative Heat Transfer31 topic

Where does Merrill Beckstead work?

Merrill Beckstead's main affiliation in the publication record is Brigham Young University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Merrill Beckstead have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 665 citations for Merrill Beckstead, an h-index of 16, ranking #1,079,068 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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