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Wind and Air Flow Studies

Wind and Air Flow Studies is a research topic within Environmental Engineering. Science Explorer counts 57k 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 modeling and simulation of urban wind environments, air quality, and atmospheric dispersion. It covers topics such as CFD simulation, urban microclimate, pedestrian wind comfort, turbulent flow, building ventilation, and boundary layer dynamics.

  • CFD Simulation
  • Urban Microclimate
  • Air Quality
  • Pedestrian Wind Comfort
  • Turbulent Flow
  • Building Ventilation
  • Atmospheric Dispersion
  • Large-Eddy Simulation
  • Street Canyon
  • Boundary Layer
Research works
57k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wind and Air Flow Studies

Which countries lead Wind and Air Flow Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (3.6k and 1.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 3.6k works
  2. 2 United States 1.3k works
  3. 3 India 554 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 431 works
  5. 5 Germany 397 works
  6. 6 France 388 works
  7. 7 Italy 338 works
  8. 8 Japan 331 works
  9. 9 Canada 324 works
  10. 10 Russia 219 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: 45.3%United States: 16.8%India: 7.0%United Kingdom: 5.5%6 others listed: 25.4%45%largest
China3,562 · 45.3%United States1,326 · 16.8%India554 · 7.0%United Kingdom431 · 5.5%6 others listed1,997 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Wind and Air Flow Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Wind and Air Flow Studies research, followed by Tongji University and Southwest Jiaotong University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 124 works
  2. 2 Tongji UniversityChina 111 works
  3. 3 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 89 works
  4. 4 Chongqing UniversityChina 87 works
  5. 5 Central South UniversityChina 80 works
  6. 6 Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 80 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 80 works
  8. 8 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 73 works
  9. 9 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 71 works
  10. 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 67 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wind and Air Flow Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wind and Air Flow Studies include Lídia Morawska, Philippe Ciais and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Ciais France 237k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 Lei Jiang China 214k citations
  5. 5 Michelle Lee Bell United States 197k citations
  6. 6 Olaf Ronneberger Germany 188k citations
  7. 7 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations
  8. 8 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  9. 9 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k 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 Wind and Air Flow Studies?

The most cited paper in Wind and Air Flow Studies is "Two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence models for engineering applications" (Florian R. Menter, 1994), with 21,460 citations. Next come "System identification—Theory for the user" (9,234) and "A new k-ϵ eddy viscosity model for high reynolds number turbulent flows" (6,067).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence models for engineering applications Florian R. Menter · AIAA Journal Aug 1994 21,460
2 System identification—Theory for the user Naresh K. Sinha · Automatica May 1989 9,234
3 A new k-ϵ eddy viscosity model for high reynolds number turbulent flows Tsan-Hsing Shih, William W. Liou, Aamir Shabbir et al. · Computers & Fluids Mar 1995 6,067
4 Numerical study of the turbulent flow past an airfoil with trailing edge separation Chae M. Rhie, W. L. Chow · AIAA Journal Nov 1983 4,478
5 The prediction of laminarization with a two-equation model of turbulence W.P. Jones, Brian E. Launder · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Feb 1972 4,157
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Where is Wind and Air Flow Studies research done?

The largest centres of Wind and Air Flow Studies research in 2022-now 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 Hampton, Golden and Kongens Lyngby.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 618 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 340 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 209 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 208 works
  5. 5 Hong KongChina 169 works
  6. 6 ChangshaChina 167 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 148 works
  8. 8 ChongqingChina 137 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 126 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 126 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HamptonUS · 24.9 works25×
  2. GoldenUS · 35.4 works13×
  3. Kongens LyngbyDK · 55.6 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Wind and Air Flow Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Wind and Air Flow Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Southeast 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%10%20%30%mean 19.28%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Hong Kong Polytechni…Southeast UniversityHong Kong 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 84.725.0%8.7×71 +45.2%
2Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyChina 75.321.6%8.3×32 +46.0%
3Southeast UniversityChina 73.022.3%4.4×62 +90.7%
4National University of SingaporeSingapore 72.526.5%2.9×33 +26.9%
5Chongqing UniversityChina 70.115.4%8.4×87 +62.9%
6Central South UniversityChina 70.116.3%4.4×80 +91.3%
7Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 69.514.8%12.2×89 +59.4%
8Harbin Institute of TechnologyChina 69.017.8%5.2×80 +38.1%
9City University of Hong KongChina 67.619.4%6.6×36 -10.7%
10Tongji UniversityChina 67.313.7%7.7×112 +29.9%

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 Wind and Air Flow Studies, country by country

Is Wind and Air Flow Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Wind and Air Flow Studies.

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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 Wind and Air Flow Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.047% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Wind and Air Flow Studies 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%Wind and Air Flow Studies9.8% 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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