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Combustion and flame dynamics

Combustion and flame dynamics is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 53k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the dynamics and stability of turbulent combustion systems, including topics such as large-eddy simulation, premixed combustion, flame dynamics, heat transfer, chemical kinetics, and the control of combustion instabilities. It also covers microscale combustion and the impact of swirl-stabilized combustion on thermoacoustic instabilities.

  • Large-Eddy Simulation
  • Turbulent Flames
  • Combustion Instabilities
  • Premixed Combustion
  • Flame Dynamics
  • Microscale Combustion
  • Heat Transfer
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Swirl-Stabilized Combustion
  • Thermoacoustic Instabilities
Research works
53k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Combustion and flame dynamics

Which countries lead Combustion and flame dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.4k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.4k works
  2. 2 United States 1.4k works
  3. 3 India 538 works
  4. 4 Germany 536 works
  5. 5 Russia 437 works
  6. 6 France 367 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 361 works
  8. 8 Japan 288 works
  9. 9 Italy 268 works
  10. 10 South Korea 245 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 43.7%United States: 17.4%India: 6.9%Germany: 6.8%6 others listed: 25.1%44%largest
China3,418 · 43.7%United States1,365 · 17.4%India538 · 6.9%Germany536 · 6.8%6 others listed1,967 · 25.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Combustion and flame dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Combustion and flame dynamics research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 218 works
  2. 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 152 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 143 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 140 works
  5. 5 Beihang UniversityChina 140 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 135 works
  7. 7 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 130 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 106 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 105 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 95 works

Who are the leading researchers in Combustion and flame dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Combustion and flame dynamics include Xiaogang Wang, Donald G. Truhlar and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Combustion and flame dynamics?

The most cited paper in Combustion and flame dynamics is "Turbulence and the dynamics of coherent structures. I. Coherent structures" (Lawrence Sirovich, 1987), with 6,236 citations. Next come "Modeling of swirl in turbulent flow systems" (5,261) and "On sound generated aerodynamically I. General theory" (4,969).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Turbulence and the dynamics of coherent structures. I. Coherent structures Lawrence Sirovich · Quarterly of Applied Mathematics Open access Oct 1987 6,236
2 Modeling of swirl in turbulent flow systems David G. Sloan, Philip J. Smith, L. DOUGLAS SMOOT · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 1986 5,261
3 On sound generated aerodynamically I. General theory Michael James Lighthill · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences 20 Mar 1952 4,969
4 On density effects and large structure in turbulent mixing layers Garry L. Brown, A. Roshko · Journal of Fluid Mechanics 24 Jul 1974 3,393
5 On mathematical modeling of turbulent combustion with special emphasis on soot formation and combustion Bjorn Fossmo Magnussen, Bjørn Helge Hjertager · Symposium (International) on Combustion Conference paper 1977 2,787
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Where is Combustion and flame dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Combustion and flame dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wright-Patterson AFB, Hangzhou and Orléans.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 811 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 294 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 258 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 195 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 157 works
  6. 6 HarbinChina 152 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 145 works
  8. 8 TianjinChina 125 works
  9. 9 HangzhouChina 123 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 119 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Wright-Patterson AFBUS · 23.9 works26×
  2. Hangzhou31.0 works23×
  3. OrléansFR · 29.9 works21×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Combustion and flame dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Combustion and flame dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Canterbury, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 22.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Canter…Huazhong University …King Abdullah Univer…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of CanterburyNew Zealand 70.638.7%12.4×17 +25.2%
2King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 67.618.7%37.6×87 +7.1%
3Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 65.615.3%8.9×130 +34.6%
4Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 64.424.2%5.0×76 +15.7%
5Jiangsu UniversityChina 63.921.5%9.2×61 +75.8%
6Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 63.214.8%6.3×152 +13.7%
7Tianjin UniversityChina 62.419.8%8.7×88 +11.9%
8Dalian University of TechnologyChina 62.226.2%7.1×56 +50.9%
9Beijing University of TechnologyChina 62.234.3%4.8×28 +80.6%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 62.113.8%7.3×140 +15.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Combustion and flame dynamics, country by country

Is Combustion and flame dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Combustion and flame dynamics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Combustion and flame dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.039% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Combustion and flame dynamics0.039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Combustion and flame dynamics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Combustion and flame dynamics9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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