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P.K. Vijayan

P.K. Vijayan publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics, Nuclear reactor physics and engineering and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies.

World rank
#583,154
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#7,725
of 44,512
Works
37
Citations
125
Citations per work
3.4

What does P.K. Vijayan research?

Aerospace Engineering: 47.5%Mechanical Engineering: 18.6%Computational Mechanics: 13.6%Biomedical Engineering: 6.8%other fields: 13.5%48%top field
Aerospace Engineering47.5%Mechanical Engineering18.6%Computational Mechanics13.6%Biomedical Engineering6.8%other fields13.5%

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

  1. 1Aerospace Engineering48% of their works
  2. 2Mechanical Engineering19% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics14% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering7% of their works
  5. 5Materials Chemistry3% of their works
  6. 6Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe P.K. Vijayan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Passive Systems, Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis, Heat Transfer, Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Boiling Heat Transfer, Microchannels and Aerospace Propulsion.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Passive Systems141 topic
  2. Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis141 topic
  3. Heat Transfer133 topics
  4. Molten Salt101 topic
  5. Nuclear Reactor101 topic
  6. Boiling Heat Transfer61 topic
  7. Microchannels61 topic
  8. Aerospace Propulsion51 topic
  9. Supercritical Fluids51 topic
  10. Detonation Propulsion31 topic
  11. Gasification31 topic
  12. Pulse Detonation Engines31 topic
  13. Supercritical Water31 topic
  14. Accident Tolerant Fuels21 topic
  15. Fuel Cladding21 topic
  16. Thermal Separation21 topic
  17. Vortex Tube21 topic

Where does P.K. Vijayan work?

P.K. Vijayan's main affiliation in the publication record is Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India.

How many publications and citations does P.K. Vijayan have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 125 citations for P.K. Vijayan, ranking #583,154 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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