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Heat transfer and supercritical fluids

Heat transfer and supercritical fluids is a research topic within Computational Mechanics. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 heat transfer characteristics and behaviors of supercritical fluids, particularly in the context of aerospace propulsion, thermal management, and hydrocarbon pyrolysis. It covers experimental measurements, numerical simulations, convective heat transfer, turbulent flows, and cooling applications for various supercritical fluids such as carbon dioxide and water. The research also delves into regenerative cooling methods and their application in advanced aeroengines.

  • Supercritical Fluids
  • Heat Transfer
  • Aerospace Propulsion
  • Thermal Management
  • Hydrocarbon Pyrolysis
  • Turbulent Flows
  • Cooling Applications
  • Numerical Simulation
  • Regenerative Cooling
  • Convective Heat Transfer
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Heat transfer and supercritical fluids

Which countries lead Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.5k and 392 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 United States 392 works
  3. 3 India 320 works
  4. 4 Russia 188 works
  5. 5 South Korea 106 works
  6. 6 Germany 105 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 84 works
  8. 8 Italy 73 works
  9. 9 France 73 works
  10. 10 Japan 72 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: 52.2%United States: 13.3%India: 10.8%Russia: 6.4%6 others listed: 17.4%52%largest
China1,542 · 52.2%United States392 · 13.3%India320 · 10.8%Russia188 · 6.4%6 others listed513 · 17.4%

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

Which institutions lead Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research?

By volume in 2022-now, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 148 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 81 works
  3. 3 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 65 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 56 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 56 works
  6. 6 Harbin Engineering UniversityChina 49 works
  7. 7 Beihang UniversityChina 49 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 47 works
  9. 9 North China Electric Power UniversityChina 39 works
  10. 10 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Heat transfer and supercritical fluids?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Heat transfer and supercritical fluids include Kai You Wang, Avelino Corma and Shu Li.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Avelino Corma Spain 176k citations
  3. 3 Shu Li France 169k citations
  4. 4 Tasawar Hayat Pakistan 135k citations
  5. 5 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  6. 6 Richard Smith United States 115k citations
  7. 7 George Em Karniadakis United States 113k 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 Heat transfer and supercritical fluids?

The most cited paper in Heat transfer and supercritical fluids is "Biofuels (alcohols and biodiesel) applications as fuels for internal combustion engines" (Avinash Kumar Ágarwal, 2006), with 3,157 citations. Next come "Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output" (2,333) and "Correlating equations for laminar and turbulent free convection from a horizontal cylinder" (1,411).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Biofuels (alcohols and biodiesel) applications as fuels for internal combustion engines Avinash Kumar Ágarwal · Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 28 Nov 2006 3,157
2 Efficiency of a Carnot engine at maximum power output Frank L. Curzon, B. Ahlborn · American Journal of Physics 1975 2,333
3 Correlating equations for laminar and turbulent free convection from a horizontal cylinder Stuart W. Churchill, Humbert H.S. Chu · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Sep 1975 1,411
4 Effect of biodiesel on engine performances and emissions Jinlin Xue, Tony E. Grift, Alan C. Hansen · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 17 Dec 2010 1,303
5 Bio-fuels from thermochemical conversion of renewable resources: A review Hari Bhagwan Goyal, Diptendu Seal, Richa Saxena · Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 10 Oct 2006 1,242
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Where is Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research done?

The largest centres of Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Harbin (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Xi'an and Harbin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 348 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 215 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 126 works
  4. 4 HarbinChina 110 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 71 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 69 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 50 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 49 works
  9. 9 ChengduChina 44 works
  10. 10 TianjinChina 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Xi'anCN · 214.7 works7.4×
  2. HarbinCN · 110.3 works7.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Heat transfer and supercritical fluids than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Heat transfer and supercritical fluids?

Among universities, judged by research, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 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%10%20%mean 17.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Jiangsu UniversityHarbin Institute of …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
1Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 73.021.4%8.7×47 +95.1%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 72.713.5%25.8×148 +31.6%
3King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia 66.319.2%12.3×11 +32.8%
4Jiangsu UniversityChina 65.923.3%5.8×15 +60.9%
5North China Electric Power UniversityChina 65.819.4%17.9×39 +42.1%
6Northeast Electric Power UniversityChina 64.522.6%35.2×15 +186.6%
7Beihang UniversityChina 62.915.9%13.7×49 +132.0%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 61.119.5%4.3×32 +126.3%
9Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 60.612.2%7.0×66 +28.2%
10Tsinghua UniversityChina 60.111.8%7.4×56 +22.7%

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 Heat transfer and supercritical fluids, country by country

Is Heat transfer and supercritical fluids research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Heat transfer and supercritical fluids.

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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 Heat transfer and supercritical fluids as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Heat transfer and supercritical fluids 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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