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Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization

Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization is a research topic within Aerospace Engineering. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 aerodynamics and heat transfer phenomena in turbomachinery, with specific emphasis on topics such as turbine performance, film cooling techniques, boundary layer transition modeling, stall and surge control, and separation control. It also includes research on blade tip heat transfer, axial compressor behavior, and the application of large-eddy simulations in understanding complex flow phenomena.

  • Turbine
  • Film Cooling
  • Transition Model
  • Axial Compressor
  • Heat Transfer
  • Stall and Surge
  • Boundary Layer
  • Separation Control
  • Blade Tip
  • Large-Eddy Simulation
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization

Which countries lead Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 379 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 379 works
  3. 3 Germany 225 works
  4. 4 India 205 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 199 works
  6. 6 Italy 127 works
  7. 7 France 83 works
  8. 8 South Korea 77 works
  9. 9 Japan 71 works
  10. 10 Iran 61 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: 53.7%United States: 12.3%Germany: 7.3%India: 6.7%6 others listed: 20.0%54%largest
China1,657 · 53.7%United States379 · 12.3%Germany225 · 7.3%India205 · 6.7%6 others listed618 · 20.0%

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

Which institutions lead Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beihang University publishes the most Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research, followed by Northwestern Polytechnical University and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beihang UniversityChina 149 works
  2. 2 Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 143 works
  3. 3 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 126 works
  4. 4 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 89 works
  5. 5 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 83 works
  6. 6 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 80 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 75 works
  8. 8 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 57 works
  9. 9 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 44 works
  10. 10 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization include Zhong Lin Wang, Kai You Wang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  5. 5 Kang Xu United States 112k 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 Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization?

The most cited paper in Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization is "The 1993 IGTI Scholar Lecture: Loss Mechanisms in Turbomachines" (J. D. Denton, 1993), with 1,646 citations. Next come "A Correlation-Based Transition Model Using Local Variables—Part I: Model Formulation" (1,488) and "Axial Flow Compressor Noise Studies" (1,145).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The 1993 IGTI Scholar Lecture: Loss Mechanisms in Turbomachines J. D. Denton · Journal of Turbomachinery Oct 1993 1,646
2 A Correlation-Based Transition Model Using Local Variables—Part I: Model Formulation Florian R. Menter, Robin Langtry, S. R. Likki et al. · Journal of Turbomachinery Mar 2004 1,488
3 Axial Flow Compressor Noise Studies John M. Tyler, THOMAS G. SOFRIN · SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series Conference paper 1962 1,145
4 The 1991 IGTI Scholar Lecture: The Role of Laminar-Turbulent Transition in Gas Turbine Engines Robert Edward Mayle · Journal of Turbomachinery Oct 1991 1,007
5 The calculation of low-Reynolds-number phenomena with a two-equation model of turbulence W.P. Jones, Brian E. Launder · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Jun 1973 976
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research done?

The largest centres of Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Mianyang and Genoa.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 493 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 294 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 146 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 110 works
  5. 5 HarbinChina 103 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 50 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 48 works
  9. 9 DalianChina 43 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sint-Genesius-RodeBE · 21.0 works487×
  2. MianyangCN · 26.8 works13×
  3. GenoaIT · 24.7 works12×
  4. Xi'anCN · 294.5 works10×
  5. CologneDE · 40.7 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization?

Among universities, judged by research, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an Jiaotong University and Beihang 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 17.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →North China Electric…Northwestern Polytec…Xi'an Jiaotong Unive…Beihang University
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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
1Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina 77.620.4%39.3×143 +15.1%
2Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 75.816.9%22.5×126 +39.1%
3Beihang UniversityChina 75.216.4%42.3×149 +74.5%
4North China Electric Power UniversityChina 72.929.0%11.9×25 +190.3%
5Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 69.916.1%8.7×80 +24.1%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 65.911.0%10.2×75 +43.7%
7Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 65.819.4%10.9×57 +65.3%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 62.617.3%6.1×32 +87.7%
9Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 62.011.5%31.4×89 +63.7%
10Jiangsu UniversityChina 59.715.2%6.1×15 +24.4%

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 Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, country by country

Is Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization.

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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 Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization 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%Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization9.8% 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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