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Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Spain
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
13311
World Ranking
841
National Ranking
10

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 226 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation Novel insights, including experiments and theory, for molding fluid jets into micro jets using aerodynamic, hydrodynamic or electrical forces

Overview

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo is affiliated with the University of Seville in Spain and conducts research primarily in the field of engineering. Their work focuses on several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, ocean engineering, and spectroscopy.

Their research covers a number of interrelated topics, with a strong emphasis on fluid dynamics and related phenomena. Main topics include:

  • Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications
  • Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
  • Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
  • Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies

Frequent publication venues for Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo include:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Materials

Frequent co-authors are:

  • J. M. Montanero
  • Miguel A. Herrada
  • José M. López-Herrera
  • Luis B. Modesto-López
  • M. Rubio

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo include:

  • "Electrokinetic modelling of cone-jet electrosprays", 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Diameter and charge of the first droplet emitted in electrospray", 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • "The Natural Breakup Length of a Steady Capillary Jet: Application to Serial Femtosecond Crystallography", 2021, Crystals
  • "Effect of an axial electric field on the breakup of a leaky-dielectric liquid filament", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Megahertz pulse trains enable multi-hit serial femtosecond crystallography experiments at X-ray free electron lasers", 2022, Nature Communications

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo received recognition as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012. The citation for this award noted contributions including experiments and theory for molding fluid jets into microjets using aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, or electrical forces.

Best Publications

  • Current and droplet size in the electrospraying of liquids. Scaling laws

    A.M. Gañán-Calvo;J. Dávila;A. Barrero

  • Perfectly monodisperse microbubbling by capillary flow focusing.

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;José M. Gordillo

  • Generation of Steady Liquid Microthreads and Micron-Sized Monodisperse Sprays in Gas Streams

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Cone-Jet Analytical Extension of Taylor's Electrostatic Solution and the Asymptotic Universal Scaling Laws in Electrospraying

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

    Heng Dong Xi;Hao Zheng;Wei Guo;Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Review on the physics of electrospray: From electrokinetics to the operating conditions of single and coaxial Taylor cone-jets, and AC electrospray

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;José M. López-Herrera;Miguel A. Herrada;Antonio Ramos

  • Active droplet generation in microfluidics

    Zhuang Zhi Chong;Say Hwa Tan;Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;Shu Beng Tor

  • THE SURFACE CHARGE IN ELECTROSPRAYING: ITS NATURE AND ITS UNIVERSAL SCALING LAWS

    Alfonso M Gañán-Calvo

  • Revision of capillary cone-jet physics: electrospray and flow focusing.

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;José M. Montanero

  • On the general scaling theory for electrospraying

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Enhanced liquid atomization: From flow-focusing to flow-blurring

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • On the theory of electrohydrodynamically driven capillary jets

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • THE ELECTROSTATIC SPRAY EMITTED FROM AN ELECTRIFIED CONICAL MENISCUS

    A.M. Gañán-Calvo;J.C. Lasheras;J. Dávila;A. Barrero

  • Perfectly monodisperse microbubbling by capillary flow focusing: an alternate physical description and universal scaling.

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

  • Fuel injection nozzle and method of use

    Alfonso Gañán-Calvo

  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PARTICLE, PARTICLE MANUFACTURED BY THE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID DROP

    Ganan-Calvo Alfonso;Barrero Ripoll Antonio

  • Zeroth-order, electrohydrostatic solution for electrospraying in cone-jet mode

    C. Pantano;A.M. Gañán-Calvo;A. Barrero

  • A new device for the generation of microbubbles

    José M. Gordillo;Zhengdong Cheng;Alfonso M. Ganan-Calvo;M. Márquez

  • Device and method for creating spherical particles of uniform size

    Alfonso Gañan-Cálvo

  • Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit

    Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;Román González-Prieto;Pascual Riesco-Chueca;Miguel A. Herrada

Frequent Co-Authors

José Manuel Gordillo
José Manuel Gordillo University of Seville
Manuel Marquez
Manuel Marquez Arizona State University
Manuel Elices
Manuel Elices Technical University of Madrid
Nam-Trung Nguyen
Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University
Henry N. Chapman
Henry N. Chapman Universität Hamburg
Gustavo V. Guinea
Gustavo V. Guinea Technical University of Madrid
Juan C. Lasheras
Juan C. Lasheras University of California, San Diego
Shu Beng Tor
Shu Beng Tor Nanyang Technological University
Antonio Canals
Antonio Canals University of Alicante
Petra Fromme
Petra Fromme Arizona State University

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