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Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions

Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application and development of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) in fluid dynamics, particularly in simulating free-surface flows, fluid-structure interactions, wave impacts, and multi-phase flows. It also explores numerical simulation techniques and the use of particle methods such as the Material Point Method and Incompressible SPH.

  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics
  • SPH Method
  • Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • Free-Surface Flows
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Incompressible SPH
  • Particle Methods
  • Wave Impact
  • Multi-Phase Flows
  • Material Point Method
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions

Which countries lead Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 545 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 545 works
  3. 3 India 407 works
  4. 4 Japan 275 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 209 works
  6. 6 Germany 186 works
  7. 7 France 185 works
  8. 8 South Korea 172 works
  9. 9 Italy 164 works
  10. 10 Iran 148 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: 57.9%United States: 10.0%India: 7.5%Japan: 5.1%6 others listed: 19.6%58%largest
China3,146 · 57.9%United States545 · 10.0%India407 · 7.5%Japan275 · 5.1%6 others listed1,064 · 19.6%

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

Which institutions lead Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harbin Engineering University publishes the most Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research, followed by Dalian University of Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 125 works
  2. 2 Dalian University of TechnologyChina 120 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 114 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 86 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  6. 6 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 69 works
  7. 7 Hohai UniversityChina 66 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65 works
  9. 9 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 64 works
  10. 10 Tongji UniversityChina 57 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Lei Jiang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  4. 4 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  5. 5 William A. Goddard United States 182k 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 Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions?

The most cited paper in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions is "Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces" (Rainer Storn, Kenneth V. Price, 1997), with 29,587 citations. Next come "Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries" (16,098) and "A continuum method for modeling surface tension" (10,368).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Differential Evolution – A Simple and Efficient Heuristic for global Optimization over Continuous Spaces Rainer Storn, Kenneth V. Price · Journal of Global Optimization Dec 1997 29,587
2 Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries C.W. Hirt, B.D. Nichols · Journal of Computational Physics 1981 16,098
3 A continuum method for modeling surface tension Jeremiah U. Brackbill, D.B. Kothe, Ch. Zemach · Journal of Computational Physics Jun 1992 10,368
4 Linear and Nonlinear Waves Gerald Beresford Whitham, Richard Fowler · Physics Today Jun 1975 8,303
5 Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars R. A. Gingold, Joseph J. Monaghan · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Dec 1977 7,263
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Where is Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research done?

The largest centres of Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Wuhan (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhoushan, Dalian and Zhenjiang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 479 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 295 works
  3. 3 WuhanChina 222 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 221 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 205 works
  6. 6 DalianChina 171 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 158 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 107 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 95 works
  10. 10 QingdaoChina 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhoushanCN · 28.1 works21×
  2. DalianCN · 170.9 works9.8×
  3. ZhenjiangCN · 70.6 works9.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology and Hohai 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 18.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hong Kong University…Dalian University of…Hohai UniversityHarbin Engineering U…
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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
1Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 75.535.3%6.5×16 +84.0%
2Dalian University of TechnologyChina 67.816.2%21.4×120 +21.2%
3Hohai UniversityChina 63.216.0%19.0×66 +40.7%
4Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 63.113.6%40.8×125 +13.2%
5Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 62.424.5%4.4×22 +294.1%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 61.714.0%9.9×69 +79.0%
7Tongji UniversityChina 60.517.1%6.3×57 +86.2%
8Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 59.513.4%6.7×114 +8.7%
9Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 59.515.8%9.5×64 +41.2%
10Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.616.3%11.7×56 +128.4%

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 Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions, country by country

Is Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions.

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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 Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Fluid Dynamics Simulations and Interactions 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.

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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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