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D-Index
55
Citations
10497
World Ranking
911
National Ranking
53

Brian Straughan 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 Brian Straughan sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 268 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian Straughan 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 Brian Straughan sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brian Straughan is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with a focus on several subfields including computational mechanics, biomedical engineering, computational theory and mathematics, mechanics of materials, and fluid flow and transfer processes.

The scholar's work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • Nanofluid flow and heat transfer
  • Fluid dynamics and turbulent flows
  • Heat and mass transfer in porous media
  • Advanced mathematical modeling in engineering
  • Rheology and fluid dynamics studies
  • Thermoelastic and magnetoelastic phenomena
  • Advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics

Recent publications by Brian Straughan include:

  • Thermosolutal Convection with a Navier-Stokes-Voigt Fluid, 2020, Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • Instability thresholds for thermal convection in a Kelvin-Voigt fluid of variable order, 2021, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo Series 2
  • Competitive Double Diffusive Convection in a Kelvin-Voigt Fluid of Order One, 2021, Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • Continuous dependence and convergence for a Kelvin-Voigt fluid of order one, 2021, ANNALI DELL UNIVERSITA DI FERRARA

Other notable work includes a paper coauthored with Maurizio Gentile titled Bidispersive Thermal Convection with Relatively Large Macropores, published in 2020 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Brian Straughan has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • A. Barletta
  • Maurizio Gentile
  • Franca Franchi
  • Roberta Nibbi
  • Giulia Giantesio

The researcher's publications have appeared in various scientific venues, with notable frequent publication outlets being:

  • ANNALI DELL UNIVERSITA DI FERRARA
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Applied Mathematics & Optimization
  • The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Transport in Porous Media

In addition to journal articles, Brian Straughan has contributed to scholarly books. One recent book published by Springer Nature in 2024 is titled Thermal Convection with a Cattaneo Flux Law.

Best Publications

  • The Energy Method, Stability, and Nonlinear Convection

    Brian Straughan

  • Stability and wave motion in porous media

    B. Straughan

  • Thermal convection with the Cattaneo–Christov model

    B. Straughan

  • Chebyshev tau-QZ algorithm methods for calculating spectra of hydrodynamic stability problems

    J. J. Dongarra;J. J. Dongarra;B. Straughan;D. W. Walker

  • Explosive instabilities in mechanics

    Brian Straughan

  • Uniqueness and structural stability for the Cattaneo–Christov equations

    M. Ciarletta;B. Straughan

  • Analysis of the boundary condition at the interface between a viscous fluid and a porous medium and related modelling questions

    L.E. Payne;B. Straughan

  • A sharp nonlinear stability threshold in rotating porous convection

    B Straughan

  • A Nonlinear Analysis of the Stabilizing Effect of Rotation in the Benard Problem

    G. P. Galdi;B. Straughan

  • Convergence and Continuous Dependence for the Brinkman–Forchheimer Equations

    L. E. Payne;B. Straughan

  • Exchange of stabilities, symmetry, and nonlinear stability

    Giovanni P. Galdi;Brian Straughan

  • Convection with Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium and Microfluidic Effects

    Brian Straughan

  • Poiseuille flow in a fluid overlying a porous medium.

    Antony A. Hill;Brian Straughan

  • Continuous dependence and convergence results for Brinkman and Forchheimer models with variable viscosity

    L. E. Payne;J. C. Song;B. Straughan

  • Global nonlinear stability in porous convection with a thermal non-equilibrium model

    B Straughan

  • Convection in a porous medium with internal heat source and variable gravity effects

    S. Rionero;B. Straughan

  • Instability of Poiseuille flow in a fluid overlying a porous layer

    Min-Hsing Chang;Falin Chen;Brian Straughan

  • Two Very Accurate and Efficient Methods for Computing Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions in Porous Convection Problems

    B. Straughan;D.W. Walker

  • Stability and uniqueness in double porosity elasticity

    B. Straughan

  • Growth and uniqueness in thermoelasticity

    R. Quintanilla;B. Straughan

  • A note on discontinuity waves in type III thermoelasticity

    R. Quintanilla;B. Straughan

  • Convection in Porous Media

    Brian Straughan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramón Quintanilla
Ramón Quintanilla Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Lawrence E. Payne
Lawrence E. Payne Cornell University
Giovanni P. Galdi
Giovanni P. Galdi University of Pittsburgh
David W. Walker
David W. Walker Cardiff University
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Howard A. Levine
Howard A. Levine Iowa State University
Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Díaz
Jesús Ildefonso Díaz Díaz Complutense University of Madrid
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Roy A. Quinlan
Roy A. Quinlan Durham University

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