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D-Index
39
Citations
5231
World Ranking
2168
National Ranking
73

Chengwang Lei 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 Chengwang Lei sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 169 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chengwang Lei 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 Chengwang Lei 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: 39 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Chengwang Lei is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their work spans multiple fields within engineering and environmental science, focusing particularly on environmental engineering and computational mechanics.

Their research addresses a variety of topics including:

  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Remote Sensing and Land Use
  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer

Lei frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including Quang Duy Nguyen, Yongling Zhao, Jan Carmeliet, Yuhan Huang, and John L. Zhou.

Their research has been published in several well-known venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • Ocean Engineering
  • International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Building and Environment

Recent papers by Lei include:

  • A review of strategies for mitigating roadside air pollution in urban street canyons, 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Urban Heat Island and Its Interaction with Heatwaves: A Review of Studies on Mesoscale, 2021, Sustainability
  • A CFD based approach for determining the optimum inclination angle of a roof-top solar chimney for building ventilation, 2020, Solar Energy
  • Natural convection over vertical and horizontal heated flat surfaces: A review of recent progress focusing on underpinnings and implications for heat transfer and environmental applications, 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • Field measurement of the urban pedestrian level wind turbulence, 2021, Building and Environment

Lei's publications indicate a focus on practical and theoretical aspects of fluid dynamics and environmental systems with applications in urban environments and energy efficiency.

Best Publications

  • Re-examination of the effect of a plane boundary on force and vortex shedding of a circular cylinder

    C. Lei;Liang Cheng;Kenneth Kavanagh

  • Solar chimney—A passive strategy for natural ventilation

    Rakesh Khanal;Chengwang Lei

  • Vortex shedding suppression for flow over a circular cylinder near a plane boundary

    C. Lei;L. Cheng;S.W. Armfield;K. Kavanagh

  • Unsteady natural convection in a triangular enclosure induced by absorption of radiation

    Chengwang Lei;John C Patterson

  • A finite difference solution of the shear flow over a circular cylinder

    Chengwang Lei;Liang Cheng;Ken Kavanagh

  • Spanwise length effects on three-dimensional modelling of flow over a circular cylinder

    Chengwang Lei;Liang Cheng;Ken Kavanagh

  • Flow reversal effects on buoyancy induced air flow in a solar chimney

    Rakesh Khanal;Chengwang Lei

  • A numerical investigation of buoyancy induced turbulent air flow in an inclined passive wall solar chimney for natural ventilation

    Rakesh Khanal;Chengwang Lei

  • Unsteady natural convection in a water-filled isosceles triangular enclosure heated from below

    Chengwang Lei;Steven W. Armfield;John C. Patterson

  • On numerical modelling of conjugate turbulent natural convection and radiation in a differentially heated cavity

    Ting Wu;Chengwang Lei

  • Unsteady natural convection in a triangular enclosure induced by surface cooling

    Chengwang Lei;John C. Patterson

  • Transient natural convection flows around a thin fin on the sidewall of a differentially heated cavity

    Feng Xu;John C. Patterson;Chengwang Lei

  • Natural convection in a reservoir sidearm subject to solar radiation: experimental observations

    C. Lei;J. C. Patterson

  • An experimental investigation of an inclined passive wall solar chimney for natural ventilation

    Rakesh Khanal;Chengwang Lei

  • A CFD based approach for determining the optimum inclination angle of a roof-top solar chimney for building ventilation

    Jing Kong;Jianlei Niu;Chengwang Lei

  • Transition to a periodic flow induced by a thin fin on the sidewall of a differentially heated cavity

    Feng Xu;John C. Patterson;Chengwang Lei

  • Natural convection in a differentially heated cavity with two horizontal adiabatic fins on the sidewalls

    Yang Liu;Chengwang Lei;John C. Patterson

  • Natural convection in attics subject to instantaneous and ramp cooling boundary conditions

    Suvash C. Saha;John C. Patterson;Chengwang Lei

  • Natural convection and heat transfer in attics subject to periodic thermal forcing

    Suvash C. Saha;John C. Patterson;Chengwang Lei

  • Unsteady natural convection in a triangular enclosure induced by absorption of radiation - a revisit by improved scaling analysis

    Yadan Mao;Chengwang Lei;John C. Patterson

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Patterson
John C. Patterson University of Sydney
Suvash C. Saha
Suvash C. Saha University of Technology Sydney
Steven W. Armfield
Steven W. Armfield University of Sydney
John C. Little
John C. Little Virginia Tech
Gianluca Ranzi
Gianluca Ranzi University of Sydney
Cayelan C. Carey
Cayelan C. Carey Virginia Tech
Wenxian Lin
Wenxian Lin James Cook University
Peng Yu
Peng Yu Southern University of Science and Technology
Alfred Wüest
Alfred Wüest Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Xinping Yan
Xinping Yan Wuhan University of Technology

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