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Heat Transfer Mechanisms

Heat Transfer Mechanisms is a research topic within Mechanical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 39k 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 heat transfer analysis and performance enhancement of solar air heaters. It includes experimental investigations, numerical modeling, and correlations development for heat transfer and friction factors in solar air heater ducts with various artificial roughness elements. The papers also cover energy and exergy analyses, as well as the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for performance analysis.

  • Solar Air Heater
  • Heat Transfer
  • Friction Factor
  • Artificial Roughness
  • Thermal Performance
  • Impinging Jet
  • Experimental Investigation
  • Numerical Modeling
  • Energy Analysis
  • CFD Analysis
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Heat Transfer Mechanisms

Which countries lead Heat Transfer Mechanisms research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (2.1k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 India 2k works
  3. 3 Pakistan 589 works
  4. 4 Saudi Arabia 556 works
  5. 5 United States 507 works
  6. 6 Iran 329 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 297 works
  8. 8 Iraq 279 works
  9. 9 Egypt 199 works
  10. 10 South Korea 179 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: 30.0%India: 28.5%Pakistan: 8.3%Saudi Arabia: 7.9%6 others listed: 25.3%30%largest
China2,125 · 30.0%India2,021 · 28.5%Pakistan589 · 8.3%Saudi Arabia556 · 7.9%6 others listed1,791 · 25.3%

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

Which institutions lead Heat Transfer Mechanisms research?

By volume in 2022-now, Xi'an Jiaotong University publishes the most Heat Transfer Mechanisms research, followed by Beihang University and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 168 works
  2. 2 Beihang UniversityChina 103 works
  3. 3 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 98 works
  4. 4 King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 93 works
  5. 5 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 88 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 88 works
  7. 7 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 82 works
  8. 8 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 74 works
  9. 9 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 58 works
  10. 10 COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 56 works

Who are the leading researchers in Heat Transfer Mechanisms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Heat Transfer Mechanisms include Kai You Wang, Lei Jiang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 Yuming Guo Australia 175k citations
  5. 5 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k citations
  6. 6 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  7. 7 Yadong Li China 155k citations
  8. 8 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Mechanisms?

The most cited paper in Heat Transfer Mechanisms is "Convective Transport in Nanofluids" (Jacopo Buongiorno, 2005), with 6,980 citations. Next come "On the identification of a vortex" (6,485) and "Turbulence statistics in fully developed channel flow at low Reynolds number" (4,852).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Convective Transport in Nanofluids Jacopo Buongiorno · ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 15 Aug 2005 6,980
2 On the identification of a vortex Jinhee Jeong, Fazle Hussain · Journal of Fluid Mechanics 25 Feb 1995 6,485
3 Turbulence statistics in fully developed channel flow at low Reynolds number John Kim, Parviz Moin, Robert Moser · Journal of Fluid Mechanics Apr 1987 4,852
4 Investigation on Convective Heat Transfer and Flow Features of Nanofluids Yimin Xuan, Qiang Li · ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 29 Jan 2003 4,648
5 Progress in the development of a Reynolds-stress turbulence closure Brian E. Launder, Gordon Reece, W. Rodi · Journal of Fluid Mechanics 15 Apr 1975 4,001
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Heat Transfer Mechanisms research done?

The largest centres of Heat Transfer Mechanisms research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Islamabad (Pakistan) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Davanagere District, Shimoga and Abhā.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 444 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 297 works
  3. 3 IslamabadPakistan 226 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 159 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 140 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 139 works
  7. 7 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 133 works
  8. 8 BaghdadIraq 124 works
  9. 9 TehranIran 118 works
  10. 10 VelloreIndia 100 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Davanagere DistrictIN · 31.3 works117×
  2. ShimogaIN · 21.3 works33×
  3. AbhāSA · 92.7 works27×
  4. MardanPK · 21.9 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Heat Transfer Mechanisms than the world average.

See Heat Transfer Mechanisms on the map

Where is the best place to study Heat Transfer Mechanisms?

Among universities, judged by research, King Khalid University, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology and Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz 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 25.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Babol Noshirvani Uni…King Khalid UniversityCOMSATS University I…Prince Sattam Bin Ab…
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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
1King Khalid UniversitySaudi Arabia 75.024.7%29.8×93 +89.2%
2Babol Noshirvani University of TechnologyIran 65.144.8%42.9×30 -36.7%
3Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia 64.921.0%19.5×42 +157.2%
4COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 63.022.3%28.7×56 +5.1%
5Future University in EgyptEgypt 62.831.9%54.4×24 -
6Davangere UniversityIndia 62.221.8%142.7×31 +105.1%
7Hazara UniversityPakistan 61.030.1%43.5×17 +69.9%
8Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 60.08.2%11.5×168 +31.4%
9Umm al-Qura UniversitySaudi Arabia 59.427.3%9.8×21 +876.1%
10Northern Border UniversitySaudi Arabia 58.724.4%23.4×18 +241.6%

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 Heat Transfer Mechanisms, country by country

Is Heat Transfer Mechanisms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Heat Transfer Mechanisms.

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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 Mechanisms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.043% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Heat Transfer Mechanisms0.034% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Heat Transfer Mechanisms 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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