Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1950. 19.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the dynamics of drop impact on surfaces, including phenomena such as drop splashing, spreading, and coalescence. It explores topics related to surface tension, multiphase flow, level set methods, spray cooling, and the Leidenfrost phenomenon.
- Drop Impact
- Surface Tension
- Fluid Dynamics
- Multiphase Flow
- Level Set Method
- Spray Cooling
- Interface Reconstruction
- Liquid Jet Instability
- Coalescence of Drops
- Leidenfrost Phenomenon
- Research works
- 29k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 5.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 19.6% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +35% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.2k and 567 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 2.2k works
- 2 United States 567 works
- 3 India 381 works
- 4 Russia 267 works
- 5 France 263 works
- 6 Germany 238 works
- 7 Japan 214 works
- 8 United Kingdom 171 works
- 9 South Korea 129 works
- 10 Canada 115 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research, followed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 82 works
- 2 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 71 works
- 3 Tsinghua UniversityChina 60 works
- 4 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 50 works
- 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 48 works
- 6 Beihang UniversityChina 47 works
- 7 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 46 works
- 8 Jiangsu UniversityChina 44 works
- 9 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 40 works
- 10 Tianjin UniversityChina 40 works
Who are the leading researchers in Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer include Lei Jiang, Rolf D. Reitz and Parviz Moin.
- 1 Lei Jiang China 3.8k citations
- 2 Rolf D. Reitz United States 2.5k citations
- 3 Parviz Moin United States 2.4k citations
- 4 Issam Mudawar United States 2.4k citations
- 5 D.D. Ganji Iran 2.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research done?
The largest centres of Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Xi'an (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tomsk, Darmstadt and Novosibirsk.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- TomskRU · 34.0 works12×
- DarmstadtDE · 30.2 works11×
- NovosibirskRU · 66.6 works10×
- ZhenjiangCN · 58.8 works9.9×
- MianyangCN · 28.6 works9.5×
- KharagpurIN · 24.3 works9.0×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer?
Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Engineering University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and City University of Hong Kong 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbin Engineering UniversityChina | 72.0 | 31.5% | 16.2× | 46 | +70.0% |
| 2 | Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina | 70.2 | 24.1% | 9.4× | 82 | +61.5% |
| 3 | City University of Hong KongHong Kong | 68.8 | 31.3% | 5.8× | 18 | +257.1% |
| 4 | Dalian University of TechnologyChina | 68.6 | 29.3% | 9.8× | 50 | +32.6% |
| 5 | Jiangsu UniversityChina | 66.8 | 22.6% | 10.8× | 44 | +82.7% |
| 6 | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgGermany | 66.6 | 37.4% | 11.9× | 11 | +83.3% |
| 7 | Indian Institute of Technology MadrasIndia | 64.0 | 14.2% | 12.3× | 30 | +202.2% |
| 8 | Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina | 62.9 | 25.4% | 6.1× | 71 | +93.9% |
| 9 | Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina | 62.0 | 25.3% | 6.3× | 40 | +163.9% |
| 10 | Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong | 61.2 | 37.5% | 2.8× | 13 | +245.2% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 35% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer.
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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.