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Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics

Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the modeling, simulation, and optimization of cyclone separators, including cyclone geometry, gas and particle flow patterns, pressure drop, and collection efficiency. It covers topics such as CFD simulations, multiphase flows, vortex finder dimensions, and performance optimization of cyclone separators.

  • Cyclone Separator
  • CFD Simulation
  • Particle Flow
  • Pressure Drop
  • Multiphase Flow
  • Hydrocyclone
  • Performance Optimization
  • Gas-Solid Flow
  • Vortex Finder
  • Collection Efficiency
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
55% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics

Which countries lead Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 294 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 294 works
  3. 3 Russia 282 works
  4. 4 India 188 works
  5. 5 Germany 94 works
  6. 6 Japan 89 works
  7. 7 South Korea 62 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 61 works
  9. 9 Iran 57 works
  10. 10 Canada 57 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: 54.5%United States: 11.3%Russia: 10.8%India: 7.2%6 others listed: 16.1%55%largest
China1,420 · 54.5%United States294 · 11.3%Russia282 · 10.8%India188 · 7.2%6 others listed420 · 16.1%

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

Which institutions lead Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research, followed by China University of Mining and Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 54 works
  2. 2 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 45 works
  3. 3 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 44 works
  4. 4 China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 41 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 38 works
  6. 6 Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 38 works
  7. 7 Jiangsu UniversityChina 35 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 34 works
  9. 9 Zhejiang UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics include Lídia Morawska, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Guangming Zeng China 204k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k 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 Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics is "Modeling of swirl in turbulent flow systems" (David G. Sloan, Philip J. Smith, L. DOUGLAS SMOOT, 1986), with 5,261 citations. Next come "Types of gas fluidization" (3,461) and "A Study of Two-Phase Flow in Inclined Pipes" (1,474).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Types of gas fluidization Derek Geldart · Powder Technology May 1973 3,461
3 A Study of Two-Phase Flow in Inclined Pipes D.H. Beggs, James P. Brill · Journal of Petroleum Technology May 1973 1,474
4 Nucleation, growth and breakage phenomena in agitated wet granulation processes: a review S.M. Iveson, James D. Litster, Karen Hapgood et al. · Powder Technology Open access Jun 2001 1,283
5 Theoretical model for drop and bubble breakup in turbulent dispersions He’an Luo, Hallvard F. Svendsen · AIChE Journal May 1996 1,247
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Where is Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Qingdao (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kazan’, Xuzhou and Zhenjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 275 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 89 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  4. 4 QingdaoChina 76 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 73 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 57 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 54 works
  8. 8 XuzhouChina 46 works
  9. 9 HarbinChina 45 works
  10. 10 Kazan’Russia 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kazan’RU · 45.0 works20×
  2. XuzhouCN · 46.0 works15×
  3. ZhenjiangCN · 40.0 works11×
  4. NovosibirskRU · 30.1 works7.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology and Jiangsu 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 19.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Shandong University …China University of …Jiangsu UniversityXi'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
1Shandong University of Science and TechnologyChina 90.931.5%26.6×38 +45.4%
2China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 76.918.7%19.5×45 +18.9%
3Jiangsu UniversityChina 74.818.7%15.0×35 +94.9%
4Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 70.712.5%8.5×44 +15.7%
5China University of Petroleum, BeijingChina 67.611.5%35.8×42 +34.4%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.714.4%4.9×34 +24.8%
7Zhejiang Sci-Tech UniversityChina 65.624.9%20.7×18 +228.4%
8Southeast UniversityChina 65.122.8%4.3×19 +7.3%
9East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.920.8%14.9×22 -0.3%
10Northeastern UniversityChina 59.614.7%8.0×21 +109.6%

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 Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics, country by country

Is Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Cyclone Separators and Fluid 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 Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cyclone Separators and Fluid 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%Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics10.2% 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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