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D-Index
53
Citations
11317
World Ranking
1000
National Ranking
412

Brent W. Webb 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 Brent W. Webb sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 196 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brent W. Webb 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 Brent W. Webb sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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

  • 2016 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Brent W. Webb is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States and has a research focus in the field of Engineering, with particular expertise in Computational Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. Their work spans several subfields, including Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Aerospace Engineering.

The primary research topics explored by Webb encompass Radiative Heat Transfer Studies, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory, Heat Transfer and Supercritical Fluids, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Calibration and Measurement Techniques.

Webb has contributed to multiple publications over the years, frequently publishing in specialized journals. The most common venues for their research include:

  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal
  • Fuel

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Webb include:

  • The impact of radiative heat transfer in combustion processes and its modeling - with a focus on turbulent flames, 2020, Fuel
  • Assessment of engineering gas radiative property models in high pressure turbulent jet diffusion flames, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Effect of ground-based environmental conditions on the level of dangerous ultraviolet solar radiation, 2021, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • A simplified ω-ALDF rank-correlated full-spectrum k-distribution model for combustion applications, 2024, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • The ω-absorption line distribution function for rank correlated SLW model prediction of radiative transfer in non-uniform gases, 2022, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Throughout their career, Webb has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Vladimir P. Solovjov
  • Frédéric André
  • M. Pınar Mengüç
  • Pedro J. Coelho
  • Leonid A. Dombrovsky

Webb's academic contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Heat Transfer Memorial Award from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2016 and a fellowship from the same society awarded in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Air jet impingement heat transfer at low nozzle-plate spacings

    D Lytle;B.W Webb

  • Characterization of frictional pressure drop for liquid flows through microchannels

    J. Judy;D. Maynes;B.W. Webb

  • Single-Phase Liquid Jet Impingement Heat Transfer

    B.W. Webb;C.-F. Ma

  • A Spectral Line-Based Weighted-Sum-of-Gray-Gases Model for Arbitrary RTE Solvers

    M. K. Denison;B. W. Webb

  • The Spectral Line-Based Weighted-Sum-of-Gray-Gases Model in Nonisothermal Nonhomogeneous Media

    M. K. Denison;B. W. Webb

  • Local Heat Transfer Coefficients Under an Axisymmetric, Single-Phase Liquid Jet

    J. Stevens;B. W. Webb

  • Laminar flow in a microchannel with superhydrophobic walls exhibiting transverse ribs

    J. Davies;D. Maynes;B. W. Webb;B. Woolford

  • Development and characterization of plasma actuators for high-speed jet control

    M. Samimy;I. Adamovich;B. Webb;J. Kastner

  • Conjugate heat transfer in a channel with staggered ribs

    B.W. Webb;S. Ramadhyani

  • Laminar flow in a microchannel with hydrophobic surface patterned microribs oriented parallel to the flow direction

    D. Maynes;K. Jeffs;B. Woolford;B. W. Webb

  • Soot in coal combustion systems

    Thomas H. Fletcher;Jinliang Ma;James R. Rigby;Alexander L. Brown

  • An absorption-line blackbody distribution function for efficient calculation of total gas radiative transfer

    M.K. Denison;B.W. Webb

  • Particle image velocimetry characterization of turbulent channel flow with rib patterned superhydrophobic walls

    B. Woolford;J. Prince;D. Maynes;B. W. Webb

  • Fully developed electro-osmotic heat transfer in microchannels

    D Maynes;B.W Webb

  • An experimental comparison of liquid jet array and spray impingement cooling in the non-boiling regime

    K. Oliphant;B.W. Webb;M.Q. McQuay

  • The Spectral-Line Weighted-Sum-of-Gray-Gases Model for H2O/CO2 Mixtures

    M. K. Denison;B. W. Webb

  • Local heat transfer to impinging liquid jets in the initially laminar, transitional, and turbulent regimes

    B. Elison;B.W. Webb

  • SLW modeling of radiative transfer in multicomponent gas mixtures

    Vladimir P. Solovjov;Brent W. Webb

  • High Rayleigh Number Laminar Natural Convection in an Asymmetrically Heated Vertical Channel

    B. W. Webb;D. P. Hill

  • Development and application of an absorptionline blackbody distribution function for CO2

    M.K. Denison;B.W. Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Viskanta
R. Viskanta Purdue University West Lafayette
Jean-Louis Consalvi
Jean-Louis Consalvi Aix-Marseille University
Thomas H. Fletcher
Thomas H. Fletcher Brigham Young University
John E. Pearson
John E. Pearson Argonne National Laboratory
J. Kevin Hiers
J. Kevin Hiers Texas A&M University
Shigenao Maruyama
Shigenao Maruyama Tohoku University
W. J. Minkowycz
W. J. Minkowycz University of Illinois at Chicago
Roger D. Ottmar
Roger D. Ottmar US Forest Service
Tracy W. Nelson
Tracy W. Nelson Brigham Young University
Michael F. Modest
Michael F. Modest University of California, Merced

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