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Chris Baker is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, particularly focusing on aerospace engineering and related subfields. Their research spans areas such as aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, crop yield, soil fertility, and wind and airflow studies, integrating principles from various scientific disciplines.

The scientist's body of work includes publications in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, where eight of their papers have appeared. Other notable venues include UNC Libraries, the Journal of Vision, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, and Field Crops Research.

Chris Baker collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors, including Mark Sterling, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Gordon Oswald, Robert Rutledge, and Anthony A. Meyer, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary research partnerships.

The scientist's research portfolio encompasses main fields and subfields such as:

  • Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Surgery
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Environmental Engineering

The main topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Railway Engineering and Dynamics
  • Abdominal Trauma and Injuries

Recent papers by Chris Baker illustrate the breadth of their research interests, including:

  • CFD analysis of the aerodynamic effects on the stability of the flight of a quadcopter UAV in the proximity of walls and ground (2020, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics)
  • A comparative study on the running safety of trains subjected to crosswinds simulated with different wind models (2020, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics)
  • On the assessment of pedestrian distress in urban winds (2020, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics)
  • Development and application of a model for calculating the risk of stem and root lodging in maize (2020, Field Crops Research)
  • Influence of the railway vehicle properties in the running safety against crosswinds (2021, Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics)

Best Publications

  • The laminar horseshoe vortex

    C. J. Baker

  • Including the urban heat island in spatial heat health risk assessment strategies: a case study for Birmingham, UK

    Charlie J Tomlinson;Lee Chapman;John E Thornes;Christopher J Baker

  • The flow around high speed trains

    Chris Baker

  • Remote sensing land surface temperature for meteorology and climatology: a review

    Charlie J. Tomlinson;Lee Chapman;John E. Thornes;Christopher Baker

  • The turbulent horseshoe vortex

    C.J. Baker

  • Measurements of the cross wind forces on trains

    C.J. Baker;J. Jones;F. Lopez-Calleja;J. Munday

  • Controlling plant form through husbandry to minimise lodging in wheat

    P.M Berry;J.M Griffin;R Sylvester-Bradley;R.K Scott

  • The simulation of unsteady aerodynamic cross wind forces on trains

    C.J. Baker

  • Derivation of Birmingham's summer surface urban heat island from MODIS satellite images

    Charlie Tomlinson;Lee Chapman;John Thornes;Christopher Baker

  • Cross-wind effects on road and rail vehicles

    Chris Baker;Federico Cheli;Alexander Orellano;Nicolas Paradot

  • Ground vehicles in high cross winds part II: Unsteady aerodynamic forces

    C.J. Baker

  • A simplified analysis of various types of wind-induced road vehicle accidents

    C.J. Baker

  • A calibrated model of wheat lodging compared with field measurements

    P.M. Berry;M. Sterling;C.J. Baker;J. Spink

  • Wind-induced accidents of road vehicles.

    C. J. Baker;Sheila Reynolds

  • An experimental investigation of the lodging of wheat

    M Sterling;C.J Baker;P.M Berry;A Wade

  • The slipstream and wake of a high-speed train:

    Christopher Baker;SJ Dalley;T Johnson;Andrew Quinn

  • Crosswind effects on the stability of a model passenger train—A comparison of static and moving experiments

    F. Dorigatti;M. Sterling;C.J. Baker;A.D. Quinn

  • A fuzzy reasoning and fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process based approach to the process of railway risk information: A railway risk management system

    Min An;Yao Chen;Christopher Baker

  • A study of the slipstreams of high-speed passenger trains and freight trains:

    Mark Sterling;Christopher Baker;Sarah Jordan;T Johnson

  • The development of a theoretical model for the windthrow of plants

    C.J. Baker

  • Train aerodynamic forces and moments from moving model experiments

    C.J Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Hassan Hemida
Hassan Hemida University of Birmingham
Lee Chapman
Lee Chapman University of Birmingham
Karl Woodbridge
Karl Woodbridge University College London
William Powrie
William Powrie University of Southampton
Hugh Griffiths
Hugh Griffiths University College London
Federico Cheli
Federico Cheli Polytechnic University of Milan
David J. Hargreaves
David J. Hargreaves AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Roger Sylvester-Bradley
Roger Sylvester-Bradley Agricultural Development Advisory Service (United Kingdom)
Yuxin Miao
Yuxin Miao University of Minnesota
Christopher D. F. Rogers
Christopher D. F. Rogers University of Birmingham

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