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Philippe Lafon

Philippe Lafon publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Environmental Engineering, on topics such as Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows and Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics.

World rank
#717,754
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#44,250
of 96,116
Works
25
Citations
79
Citations per work
3.2

What does Philippe Lafon research?

Aerospace Engineering: 29.7%Computational Mechanics: 27.0%Environmental Engineering: 8.1%Atmospheric Science: 8.1%other fields: 27.1%30%top field
Aerospace Engineering29.7%Computational Mechanics27.0%Environmental Engineering8.1%Atmospheric Science8.1%other fields27.1%

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

  1. 1Aerospace Engineering30% of their works
  2. 2Computational Mechanics27% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Philippe Lafon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Large-Eddy Simulation, Turbulent Flow, Acoustic Sources, Jet Noise, Turbulent Flows, Vortex Dynamics, Boundary Layer and High-Order Schemes.

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. Large-Eddy Simulation193 topics
  2. Turbulent Flow132 topics
  3. Acoustic Sources101 topic
  4. Jet Noise101 topic
  5. Turbulent Flows61 topic
  6. Vortex Dynamics61 topic
  7. Boundary Layer52 topics
  8. High-Order Schemes41 topic
  9. Turbulence Modeling41 topic
  10. CFD Simulation31 topic
  11. Urban Microclimate31 topic
  12. Data Assimilation21 topic
  13. Ensemble Kalman Filter21 topic
  14. Livestock Farming11 topic
  15. Passive Systems11 topic
  16. Precipitation11 topic
  17. Satellite11 topic
  18. Sustainability11 topic
  19. Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis11 topic

Where does Philippe Lafon work?

Philippe Lafon's main affiliation in the publication record is Électricité de France (France), France.

How many publications and citations does Philippe Lafon have?

Science Explorer counts 25 works and 79 citations for Philippe Lafon, ranking #717,754 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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