2026 Doyle Knight: 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	45	1543	1429	600	522	348	7098

Doyle Knight 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 Doyle Knight sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 659+

This scientist: 348 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Doyle Knight 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 Doyle Knight sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Doyle Knight is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily centers on the field of Engineering, with a significant concentration in Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, and Applied Mathematics. Their work also extends into Ocean Engineering and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist's publications focus on several interconnected topics. These include:

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research

Doyle Knight has contributed to various scholarly venues, notably:

AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum
AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
Physics of Fluids
Journal of Burn Care & Research
Energies

Recent published works authored or coauthored by Doyle Knight include:

"Review of Energy Deposition for High-Speed Flow Control," 2022, published in Energies
"Large Eddy Simulation of Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers," 2021, published in Fluids
"Hypersonic Flow Control of Kinzhal Missile via Off-Axis, Pulsed Energy Deposition," 2021, published in Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets
"A review of Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes modeling for hypersonic large cone-flares," 2025, published in Physics of Fluids
"Large Eddy Simulation of Hypersonic Cold Wall Flat Plate," 2021, published in AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM

Frequent collaborators of Doyle Knight include:

Nadia Kianvashrad
Partth A. Laad
O. A. Azarova
O. V. Kravchenko
Jimmy-John O. E. Hoste

Best Publications

Advances in CFD prediction of shock wave turbulent boundary layer interactions

Doyle Knight;Hong Yan;Argyris G. Panaras;Alexander Zheltovodov

347
Citations
Survey of Aerodynamic Drag Reduction at High Speed by Energy Deposition

Doyle D. Knight

247
Citations
Large-Eddy Simulation of a Supersonic Boundary Layer Using an Unstructured Grid

Gerald Urbin;Doyle Knight

197
Citations
Control of edney IV interaction by pulsed laser energy deposition

Russell G. Adelgren;Hong Yan;Gregory S. Elliott;Doyle D. Knight

174
Citations
Assessment of CFD capability for prediction of hypersonic shock interactions

Doyle Knight;José Longo;Dimitris Drikakis;Datta Gaitonde

148
Citations
A new approach to the rationale discovery of polymeric biomaterials.

Joachim Kohn;William J. Welsh;Doyle Knight

144
Citations
Compressible large eddy simulation using unstructured grids

Doyle Knight;Gang Zhou;Nora Okong'o;Vijay Shukla

141
Citations
Laser Energy Deposition in Quiescent Air

H. Yan;R. Adelgren;M. Boguszko;G. Elliott

139
Citations
Shock wave boundary layer interactions in high Mach number flows: A critical survey of current CFD prediction capabilities

D.D. Knight;Gérard Degrez

127
Citations
Survey of aerodynamic flow control at high speed by energy deposition

Doyle Knight;V. Kuchinskiy;A. Kuranov;E. Sheikin

115
Citations
Two-Dimensional Unsteady Leading-Edge Separation on a Pitching Airfoil

P. Ghosh Choudhuri;Doyle Knight;M. R. Visbal

114
Citations
Structure of supersonic turbulent flow past a sharp fin

Doyle D. Knight;C. C. Horstman;Brian Shapey;Seymour Bogdonoff

105
Citations
The Baldwin-Lomax Turbulence Model for Two-Dimensional Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions

M. Visbal;D. Knight

102
Citations
Plasma Jet for Flight Control

Kellie V. Anderson;Doyle D. Knight

97
Citations
Assessment of predictive capabilities for aerodynamic heating in hypersonic flow

Doyle Knight;Olivier Chazot;Joanna Austin;Mohammad Ali Badr

91
Citations
Polymer-drug interactions in tyrosine-derived triblock copolymer nanospheres: a computational modeling approach.

Aurora D. Costache;Larisa Sheihet;Krishna Zaveri;Doyle D. Knight

88
Citations
High-Performance Supersonic Missile Inlet Design Using Automated Optimization

Ge Cheng Zha;Donald Smith;Mark Schwabacher;Khaled Rasheed

87
Citations
Automated Design of a Three-Dimensional Subsonic Diffuser

Wei-Li Zhang;Doyle D. Knight;Don Smith

85
Citations
Effects of compressibility, pitch rate, and Reynolds number on unsteady incipient leading-edge boundary layer separation over a pitching airfoil

P. Ghosh Choudhuri;D. D. Knight

84
Citations
Energy deposition in supersonic flows

Russell G. Adelgren;Gregory S. Elliott;Doyle D. Knight;Alexander A. Zheltovodov

83
Citations
ENERGY DEPOSITION INFLUENCE ON SUPERSONIC FLOW OVER AXISYMMETRIC BODIES

Alexander Zheltovodov;E. Pimonov;Doyle Knight

79
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregory S. Elliott University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joachim Kohn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Yogesh Jaluria Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gary S. Settles Pennsylvania State University

Steven P. Schneider Purdue University West Lafayette

Gecheng Zha University of Miami

Graham V. Candler University of Minnesota

Philip Geoffrey Saffman California Institute of Technology

Alexander Smits Princeton University

Ronald M. Levy Temple University

External Links

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