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D-Index
46
Citations
7448
World Ranking
1460
National Ranking
100

D. A. S. Rees 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 D. A. S. Rees sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 231 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

D. A. S. Rees 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 D. A. S. Rees sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

D. A. S. Rees is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom and focuses on research in engineering, particularly in the areas of computational mechanics and fluid dynamics. Their work spans several subfields including biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, fluid flow and transfer processes, and mechanical engineering.

The scientist's research topics prominently include fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, nanofluid flow and heat transfer, Navier-Stokes equation solutions, phase equilibria and thermodynamics, rheology and fluid dynamics studies, heat and mass transfer in porous media, and fluid dynamics and thin films.

Rees has published papers in notable journals with a strong focus on convection and porous media flow. Some of the recent papers include:

  • A weakly nonlinear analysis of the effect of vertical throughflow on Darcy-Bénard convection, 2022, Physics of Fluids
  • On the Use and Misuse of the Oberbeck-Boussinesq Approximation, 2023, Physics
  • Pattern selection for Darcy-Bénard convection with local thermal nonequilibrium, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Darcy-Bénard-Bingham convection, 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • On the Stability of Parallel Flow in a Vertical Porous Layer with Annular Cross Section, 2020, Transport in Porous Media

Rees frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Transport in Porous Media
  • Physics
  • Fluids

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Rees's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • A. Barletta
  • Michele Celli
  • Jacopo A. Gianfrani
  • Pedro Vayssière Brandão
  • Beatrice Pulvirenti

In addition to journal articles, Rees has contributed to book publications under WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks, such as the "Handbook on Mechanics of Inelastic Solids" (2021) and the "Handbook on Engineering Plasticity" (2023).

Best Publications

  • The effect of radiation on free convection from a porous vertical plate

    M.A. Hossain;M.A. Alim;D.A.S. Rees

  • Onset of Darcy-Benard convection using a thermal non-equilibrium model

    Nurzahan Banu;D.A.S. Rees

  • The Blasius boundary-layer flow of a micropolar fluid

    D.A.S. Rees;Andrew P. Bassom

  • Free convection boundary-layer flow of a micropolar fluid from a vertical flat plate

    D. A. S. Rees;I. Pop

  • Crack imaging by scanning pulsed laser spot thermography

    Teng Li;Darryl P. Almond;D.Andrew S. Rees

  • Local thermal non-equilibrium in porous medium convection

    D.A.S. Rees;I. Pop

  • Combined heat and mass transfer in natural convection flow from a vertical wavy surface

    M. A. Hossain;D. A. S. Rees

  • The effect of surface mass transfer on mixed convection flow past a heated vertical flat permeable plate with thermophoresis

    A. Selim;M.A. Hossain;D.A.S. Rees

  • Crack imaging by scanning laser-line thermography and laser-spot thermography

    T Li;D P Almond;D A S Rees

  • The onset of Darcy–Brinkman convection in a porous layer: an asymptotic analysis

    D.A.S. Rees

  • Local thermal non-equilibrium effects arising from the injection of a hot fluid into a porous medium

    D. Andrew S. Rees;Andrew P. Bassom;Pradeep G. Siddheshwar

  • A note on free convection along a vertical wavy surface in a porous medium

    D. A. S. Rees;I. Pop

  • Vertical free convective boundary-layer flow in a porous medium using a thermal nonequilibrium model

    D. Andrew S. Rees;Ioan Pop

  • Free Convection Induced by a Vertical Wavy Surface With Uniform Heat Flux in a Porous Medium

    D. A. S. Rees;I. Pop

  • Flow of viscous incompressible fluid with temperature dependent viscosity and thermal conductivity past a permeable wedge with uniform surface heat flux

    Md.Anwar Hossain;Md.Sazzad Munir;David Andrew S. Rees

  • Natural convection heat transfer enhancement using adiabatic block: Optimal block size and Prandtl number effect

    Prasad Bhave;Arunn Narasimhan;D.A.S. Rees

  • The onset of Darcy–Brinkman convection in a porous layer using a thermal nonequlibrium model—part I:stress-free boundaries

    A. Postelnicu;D.A.S. Rees

  • Composite dielectrics and conductors: simulation, characterization and design

    Darryl P Almond;C R Bowen;D A S Rees

  • Buoyancy and thermocapillary driven convection flow of an electrically conducting fluid in an enclosure with heat generation

    M. Anwar Hossain;M.Z. Hafiz;D.A.S. Rees

  • The Effect of Local Thermal Nonequilibrium on the Stability of Convection in a Vertical Porous Channel

    D. Andrew S. Rees

  • Numerical study of the combined free-forced convective laminar boundary layer flow past a vertical isothermal flat plate with temperature-dependent viscosity

    N. G. Kafoussias;D. A. S. Rees;J. E. Daskalakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Ioan Pop
Ioan Pop Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Md. Anwar Hossain
Md. Anwar Hossain University of Dhaka
Darryl P Almond
Darryl P Almond University of Bath
Michael T. Wilson
Michael T. Wilson University of Essex
Steve Dixon
Steve Dixon University of Warwick
Christopher R. Bowen
Christopher R. Bowen University of Bath
Donald A. Nield
Donald A. Nield University of Auckland
Rama Subba Reddy Gorla
Rama Subba Reddy Gorla Cleveland State University
Andrey V. Kuznetsov
Andrey V. Kuznetsov North Carolina State University
Harmindar S. Takhar
Harmindar S. Takhar Manchester Metropolitan University

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