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Researcher · Virginia Tech · United States

W. F. Ng

W. F. Ng publishes mostly in Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows and Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows.

OpenAlex
World rank
#420,064
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#148,374
of 1,627,098
Works
77
Citations
943
Citations per work
12.2
h-index
18
i10-index 28Top 21% in Computational Mechanics
W. F. Ng

What does W. F. Ng research?

W. F. Ng's work is mostly in Engineering (86%).

Physical Sciences: 66 works · 85.8% of their workEngineering: 66 works · 85.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 27 works · 34.6% of their workAerospace Engineering: 22 works · 28.5% of their workMechanical Engineering: 9 works · 11.8% of their workOcean Engineering: 3 works · 4.4% of their workMechanics of Materials: 3 works · 3.9% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 2 works · 2.6% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKW. F. Ng77works
Physical Sciences86%

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. Engineering6685.8%
  2. Everything else1114.2%
  1. 1Computational Mechanics35% of their works
  2. 2Aerospace Engineering28% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering12% of their works
  4. 4Ocean Engineering4% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials4% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. F. Ng's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Film Cooling, Turbine, Turbulent Flows, Vortex Dynamics, Friction Factor 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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Heat Transfer1134 topics
  2. Large-Eddy Simulation1134 topics
  3. Film Cooling391 topic
  4. Turbine391 topic
  5. Turbulent Flows371 topic
  6. Vortex Dynamics371 topic
  7. Friction Factor201 topic
  8. Jet Noise201 topic
  9. Solar Air Heater201 topic
  10. Turbulent Flow201 topic
  11. High-Order Schemes181 topic
  12. Turbulence Modeling181 topic
  13. Combustion Instabilities171 topic
  14. Turbulent Flames171 topic
  15. Particles101 topic
  16. Turbulence101 topic
  17. Boltzmann Equation61 topic
  18. Kinetic Theory61 topic

Where does W. F. Ng work?

W. F. Ng's main affiliation in the publication record is Virginia Tech, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. F. Ng have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 943 citations for W. F. Ng, an h-index of 18, ranking #420,064 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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