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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
78
Citations
19715
World Ranking
246
National Ranking
119

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
17891
World Ranking
4514
National Ranking
1420

Chih-Jen Sung 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 Chih-Jen Sung sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 306 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Chih-Jen Sung 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 Chih-Jen Sung sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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 United States Leader Award

Overview

Chih-Jen Sung is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and specializes primarily in engineering and chemical engineering. The research conducted spans various subfields, including computational mechanics, fluid flow and transfer processes, biomedical engineering, environmental engineering, and aerospace engineering.

Their work focuses on key topics such as combustion and flame dynamics, advanced combustion engine technologies, wind and air flow studies, biodiesel production and applications, heat transfer and supercritical fluids, catalytic processes in materials science, and vehicle emissions and performance.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chih-Jen Sung include Ruozhou Fang, Xin Hui, Xin Xue, William J. Pitz, and Xinyao Wang.

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, notably:

  • Combustion and Flame
  • Fuel
  • Energy
  • Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute

Recent papers authored under their supervision or collaboration highlight a focus on combustion processes and flame dynamics. These papers include:

  • "Effect of nitric oxide and exhaust gases on gasoline surrogate autoignition: iso-octane experiments and modeling" (2021) published in Combustion and Flame
  • "Fuel molecular structure effect on autoignition of highly branched iso-alkanes at low-to-intermediate temperatures: Iso-octane versus iso-dodecane" (2020) published in Combustion and Flame
  • "Flame structures and thermoacoustic instabilities of centrally-staged swirl flames operating in different partially-premixed modes" (2021) published in Energy
  • "Multi-bifurcation behaviors of stability regimes in a centrally staged swirl burner" (2021) published in Physics of Fluids
  • "The thermoacoustic instability in a stratified swirl burner and its passive control by using a slope confinement" (2020) published in Energy

Best Publications

  • An experimental and detailed chemical kinetic modeling study of hydrogen and syngas mixture oxidation at elevated pressures

    Alan Keromnes;Wayne K. Metcalfe;Karl A. Heufer;Nicola Donohoe

  • Structure, aerodynamics, and geometry of premixed flamelets

    Chung King Law;C. J. Sung

  • A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Marcos Chaos;Joshua S. Heyne

  • The experimental evaluation of a methodology for surrogate fuel formulation to emulate gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Joshua Heyne;Tanvir I. Farouk

  • Skeletal mechanism generation for surrogate fuels using directed relation graph with error propagation and sensitivity analysis

    Kyle E. Niemeyer;Chih-Jen Sung;Mandhapati P. Raju

  • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation

    Chong-Wen Zhou;Yang Li;Eoin O'Connor;Kieran P. Somers

  • Laminar flame speeds of primary reference fuels and reformer gas mixtures

    Y. Huang;C.J. Sung;J.A. Eng

  • Dynamics of weakly stretched flames: quantitative description and extraction of global flame parameters

    C.J. Sun;C.J. Sung;L. He;C.K. Law

  • Using rapid compression machines for chemical kinetics studies

    Chih-Jen Sung;Henry J. Curran

  • An experimental and modeling study of propene oxidation. Part 2: Ignition delay time and flame speed measurements

    Sinead M. Burke;Ultan Burke;Reuben Mc Donagh;Olivier Mathieu

  • Laminar flame speeds and extinction limits of preheated n-decane/O2/N2 and n-dodecane/O2/N2 mixtures

    Kamal Kumar;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Recent development in studies of alternative jet fuel combustion: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

    Chi Zhang;Xin Hui;Xin Hui;Yuzhen Lin;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Heat Transfer of Aviation Kerosene at Supercritical Conditions

    Fengquan Zhong;Xuejun Fan;Gong Yu;Jianguo Li

  • Determination of laminar flame speeds using digital particle image velocimetry: Binary Fuel blends of ethylene, n-Butane, and toluene

    T. Hirasawa;C. J. Sung;A. Joshi;Z. Yang

  • A RAPID COMPRESSION MACHINE FOR CHEMICAL KINETICS STUDIES AT ELEVATED PRESSURES AND TEMPERATURES

    Gaurav Mittal;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Structural response of counterflow diffusion flames to strain rate variations

    C.J. Sung;J.B. Liu;C.K. Law

  • Laminar Flame Speeds of Preheated iso-Octane/O2/N2 and n-Heptane/O2/N2 Mixtures

    K. Kumar;J. E. Freeh;C. J. Sung;Y. Huang

  • Advances in rapid compression machine studies of low- and intermediate-temperature autoignition phenomena

    S. Scott Goldsborough;Simone Hochgreb;Guillaume Vanhove;Margaret S. Wooldridge

  • Aerodynamics inside a rapid compression machine

    Gaurav Mittal;Chih-Jen Sung

  • Experimental studies on the combustion characteristics of alternative jet fuels

    Xin Hui;Kamal Kumar;Chih-Jen Sung;Tim Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Chung King Law
Chung King Law Princeton University
William J. Pitz
William J. Pitz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hai Wang
Hai Wang Stanford University
Marco Mehl
Marco Mehl Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Frederick L. Dryer
Frederick L. Dryer University of South Carolina
Henry J. Curran
Henry J. Curran University of Galway
Yiguang Ju
Yiguang Ju Princeton University
Robert W. Pitz
Robert W. Pitz Vanderbilt University
Thomas A. Litzinger
Thomas A. Litzinger Pennsylvania State University

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