2026 Dan S. Henningson: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	79	222	200	2	2	490	24134

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Sweden Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Sweden Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Sweden Leader Award
2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to linear and nonlinear hydrodynamic stability and numerical simulations of transitional and turbulent flows, including indepth understanding of the concept of receptivity, bypass transition and flows over complex surfaces, as well as feedback control of these flows

Overview

Dan S. Henningson is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of engineering with a significant emphasis on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows.

The main fields of study in which Dan S. Henningson contributes include:

Engineering

Within this broad field, their subfields of study cover:

Computational Mechanics
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Control and Systems Engineering

The research topics extensively explored by Dan S. Henningson include:

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Wind and Air Flow Studies
Wind Energy Research and Development
Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization

Dan S. Henningson has published numerous papers, with many appearing in reputable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Fluid Mechanics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Physics of Fluids
Physical Review Fluids
Journal of Physics Conference Series

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Dan S. Henningson includes:

Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition and resolvent analysis of near-wall coherent structures in turbulent pipe flows, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Spanwise-coherent hydrodynamic waves around flat plates and airfoils, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Resolvent modelling of near-wall coherent structures in turbulent channel flow, 2020, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Transition in an infinite swept-wing boundary layer subject to surface roughness and free-stream turbulence, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Non-iterative vortex-based smearing correction for the actuator line method, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Frequent co-authors with whom Dan S. Henningson has collaborated include:

Ardeshir Hanifi
Philipp Schlatter
André V. G. Cavalieri
Jan O. Pralits
Thales Fava

Dan S. Henningson was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012. The citation recognized contributions to linear and nonlinear hydrodynamic stability, numerical simulations of transitional and turbulent flows, and work on receptivity, bypass transition, flows over complex surfaces, and feedback control of these flows.

Best Publications

Stability and Transition in Shear Flows. Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 142

PJ Schmid;DS Henningson;DF Jankowski

3102
Citations
Stability and Transition in Shear Flows

Peter J. Schmid;Dan S. Henningson

3057
Citations
Spectral analysis of nonlinear flows

Clarence Rowley;Igor Mezic;Shervin Bagheri;Philipp Schlatter

2559
Citations
Spectral analysis of nonlinear flows

Clarence W. Rowley;Igor Mezić;Shervin Bagheri;Philipp Schlatter

2557
Citations
Energy growth in viscous channel flows

Satish C. Reddy;Dan S. Henningson

921
Citations
Optimal disturbances and bypass transition in boundary layers

Paul Andersson;Martin Berggren;Dan S. Henningson

744
Citations
Pseudospectra of the Orr-Sommerfeld operator

Satish C. Reddy;Peter J. Schmid;Dan S. Henningson

595
Citations
On the breakdown of boundary layer streaks

Paul Andersson;Luca Brandt;Alessandro Bottaro;Dan S. Henningson

515
Citations
Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence

Luca Brandt;Philipp Schlatter;Dan S. Henningson

453
Citations
Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping

Espen Åkervik;Luca Brandt;Dan S. Henningson;Jéro^me Hœpffner

401
Citations
On stability of streamwise streaks and transition thresholds in plane channel flows

Satish C. Reddy;Peter J. Schmid;Jeffrey S. Baggett;Dan S. Henningson

385
Citations
Optimal energy density growth in Hagen-Poiseuille flow

Peter J. Schmid;Dan S. Henningson

358
Citations
Transient growth in compressible boundary layer flow

Ardeshir Hanifi;Peter J. Schmid;Dan S. Henningson

333
Citations
Turbulent boundary layers up to Reθ=2500 studied through simulation and experiment

P. Schlatter;R. Örlü;Q. Li;G. Brethouwer

329
Citations
Flow structures around a high-speed train extracted using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Dynamic Mode Decomposition

Tomas W. Muld;Gunilla Efraimsson;Dan S. Henningson

308
Citations
Global stability of a jet in crossflow

Shervin Bagheri;Philipp Schlatter;Peter J. Schmid;Dan S. Henningson

290
Citations
SIMSON : A Pseudo-Spectral Solver for Incompressible Boundary Layer Flows

Mattias Chevalier;Philipp Schlatter;Anders Lundbladh;Dan S. Henningson

286
Citations
A mechanism for bypass transition from localized disturbances in wall-bounded shear flows

Dan S. Henningson;Anders Lundbladh;Arne V. Johansson

285
Citations
Formation of turbulent patterns near the onset of transition in plane Couette flow

Yohann Duguet;Philipp Schlatter;Dan S. Henningson

240
Citations
Simulation of wind turbine wakes using the actuator line technique

Jens Nørkær Sørensen;Robert Flemming Mikkelsen;Dan S. Henningson;Stefan Ivanell

238
Citations
The Fringe Region Technique and the Fourier Method Used in the Direct Numerical Simulation of Spatially Evolving Viscous Flows

Jan Nordström;Niklas Nordin;Dan Henningson

237
Citations
Linear feedback control and estimation of transition in plane channel flow

Markus Högberg;Thomas R. Bewley;Dan S. Henningson

226
Citations
Stability analysis of the tip vortices of a wind turbine

Stefan Ivanell;Robert Mikkelsen;Jens N. Sørensen;Dan Henningson

214
Citations
Direct numerical simulation of a separated turbulent boundary layer

Martin Skote;Dan S. Henningson

189
Citations
The global stability of the jet in crossflow

Shervin Bagheri;Philipp Schlatter;Dan Henningson

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology

Luca Brandt Polytechnic University of Turin

Peter J. Schmid King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Robert Flemming Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark

Arne V. Johansson Royal Institute of Technology

André V. G. Cavalieri Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica

Jens Nørkær Sørensen Technical University of Denmark

Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg

Paul Fischer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Clarence W. Rowley Princeton University

External Links

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