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Researcher · Langley Research Center · United States

Ponnampalam Balakumar

Ponnampalam Balakumar publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics and Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows.

OpenAlex
World rank
#872,692
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#288,680
of 1,627,098
Works
73
Citations
923
Citations per work
12.6
h-index
18
i10-index 28Top 21% in Computational Mechanics
Ponnampalam Balakumar

What does Ponnampalam Balakumar research?

Ponnampalam Balakumar's work is mostly in Engineering (79%), Mathematics (7%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%).

Physical Sciences: 68 works · 93.7% of their workEngineering: 58 works · 79.1% of their workComputational Mechanics: 42 works · 57.8% of their workAerospace Engineering: 16 works · 21.3% of their workMathematics: 5 works · 7.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 4 works · 5.2% of their workNumerical Analysis: 1 works · 1.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 works · 4.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 4.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 2.8% of their workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 6.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPonnampalamBalakumar73works
Physical Sciences94%

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. Engineering5879.1%
    2. Mathematics57.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences34.7%
    4. Environmental Science22.8%
  2. Everything else56.3%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics58% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering21% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics5% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  5. 5Environmental Engineering3% of their works
  6. 6Numerical Analysis2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ponnampalam Balakumar's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Large-Eddy Simulation993 topics
  2. Turbulent Flows631 topic
  3. Vortex Dynamics631 topic
  4. High-Order Schemes521 topic
  5. Turbulence Modeling521 topic
  6. Turbulent Flow362 topics
  7. Acoustic Sources301 topic
  8. Jet Noise301 topic
  9. Boundary Layer162 topics
  10. Numerical Methods152 topics
  11. Aerodynamic Flow Control121 topic
  12. Plasma Actuators121 topic
  13. Boltzmann Equation111 topic
  14. Kinetic Theory111 topic
  15. Data Assimilation101 topic
  16. Ensemble Kalman Filter101 topic
  17. CFD Simulation61 topic
  18. Urban Microclimate61 topic
  19. Convection-Diffusion Problems41 topic
  20. Singular Perturbation41 topic

Where does Ponnampalam Balakumar work?

Ponnampalam Balakumar's main affiliation in the publication record is Langley Research Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ponnampalam Balakumar have?

OpenAlex counts 73 works and 923 citations for Ponnampalam Balakumar, an h-index of 18, ranking #872,692 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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