2026 Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	56	840	768	10	9	226	13311

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

1000
Citations
Perfectly monodisperse microbubbling by capillary flow focusing.

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;José M. Gordillo

801
Citations
Generation of Steady Liquid Microthreads and Micron-Sized Monodisperse Sprays in Gas Streams

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

703
Citations
Cone-Jet Analytical Extension of Taylor's Electrostatic Solution and the Asymptotic Universal Scaling Laws in Electrospraying

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

434
Citations
Active droplet sorting in microfluidics: a review

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

370
Citations
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

303
Citations
Active droplet generation in microfluidics

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

298
Citations
THE SURFACE CHARGE IN ELECTROSPRAYING: ITS NATURE AND ITS UNIVERSAL SCALING LAWS

Alfonso M Gañán-Calvo

297
Citations
Revision of capillary cone-jet physics: electrospray and flow focusing.

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo;José M. Montanero

254
Citations
On the general scaling theory for electrospraying

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

236
Citations
Enhanced liquid atomization: From flow-focusing to flow-blurring

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

233
Citations
On the theory of electrohydrodynamically driven capillary jets

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

223
Citations
THE ELECTROSTATIC SPRAY EMITTED FROM AN ELECTRIFIED CONICAL MENISCUS

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

222
Citations
Perfectly monodisperse microbubbling by capillary flow focusing: an alternate physical description and universal scaling.

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

174
Citations
Fuel injection nozzle and method of use

Alfonso Gañán-Calvo

171
Citations
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING PARTICLE, PARTICLE MANUFACTURED BY THE MANUFACTURING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING LIQUID DROP

Ganan-Calvo Alfonso;Barrero Ripoll Antonio

167
Citations
Zeroth-order, electrohydrostatic solution for electrospraying in cone-jet mode

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

165
Citations
A new device for the generation of microbubbles

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

157
Citations
Device and method for creating spherical particles of uniform size

Alfonso Gañan-Cálvo

156
Citations
Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit

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

152
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

José Manuel Gordillo University of Seville

Manuel Marquez Arizona State University

Manuel Elices Technical University of Madrid

Nam-Trung Nguyen Griffith University

Henry N. Chapman Universität Hamburg

Gustavo V. Guinea Technical University of Madrid

Juan C. Lasheras University of California, San Diego

Shu Beng Tor Nanyang Technological University

Antonio Canals University of Alicante

Petra Fromme Arizona State University

External Links

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