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D-Index
35
Citations
5053
World Ranking
2650
National Ranking
934

Gecheng Zha 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 Gecheng Zha sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 291 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gecheng Zha 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 Gecheng Zha sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% 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

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Gecheng Zha is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a strong emphasis on computational mechanics and aerospace engineering. The scientist has contributed to studies in global and planetary change, ocean engineering, and environmental engineering, though these subfields are less prominent in their work.

Their scholarship encompasses several interrelated topics within aerospace and fluid dynamics, including:

  • Plasma and flow control in aerodynamics
  • Fluid dynamics and turbulent flows
  • Computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics
  • Aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research
  • Aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows
  • Advanced aircraft design and technologies
  • Aerospace engineering and energy systems

Gecheng Zha has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with notable frequent co-authors including Kewei Xu, Yan Ren, Zhijin Lei, Jeremy S. Boling, and Paula A. Barrios.

The scientist has published in several prominent venues in aerospace and engineering, with multiple contributions to:

  • AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM
  • AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum
  • AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM

Recent papers by Gecheng Zha include:

  • Investigation of Coflow Jet Active Flow Control for Wind Turbine Airfoil, 2020, AIAA AVIATION 2020 FORUM
  • High Control Authority Three-Dimensional Aircraft Control Surfaces Using Coflow Jet, 2020, Journal of Aircraft
  • Enhancing Aircraft Control Surface Effectiveness by Co-flow Jet Flap at Low Energy Expenditure, 2023, Aerospace Science and Technology
  • System Energy Benefit Using Co-flow Jet Active Separation Control for a Serpentine Duct, 2022, Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Numerical Analysis of Energy Expenditure for Coflow Wall Jet Separation Control, 2022, AIAA Journal

In 2012, Gecheng Zha was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • High-Performance Airfoil Using Coflow Jet Flow Control

    Ge Cheng Zha;Bruce F. Carroll;Craig D. Paxton;Clark A. Conley

  • Improvement of Stability and Accuracy for Weighted Essentially Nonoscillatory Scheme

    Yiqing Shen;Gecheng Zha;Baoyuan Wang

  • Jet Effects on Coflow Jet Airfoil Performance

    Ge Cheng Zha;Wei Gao;Craig D. Paxton

  • An improved low diffusion E-CUSP upwind scheme

    Ge Cheng Zha;Yiqing Shen;Baoyuan Wang

  • Numerical solutions of Euler equations by using a new flux vector splitting scheme

    G.-C. Zha;E. Bilgen

  • High order conservative differencing for viscous terms and the application to vortex-induced vibration flows

    Yiqing Shen;Gecheng Zha;Xiangying Chen

  • Effect of Injection Slot Size on the Performance of Coflow Jet Airfoil

    Ge Cheng Zha;Craig D. Paxton;Clark A. Conley;Adam Wells

  • Improvement of the WENO scheme smoothness estimator

    Yiqing Shen;Gecheng Zha

  • Performance and Energy Expenditure of Coflow Jet Airfoil with Variation of Mach Number

    A. Lefebvre;B. Dano;W. B. Bartow;M. D. Fronzo

  • Numerical simulation of 3-D wing flutter with fully coupled fluid–structural interaction

    Xiangying Chen;Ge Cheng Zha;Ming Ta Yang

  • General Subdomain Boundary Mapping Procedure for Structured Grid Implicit CFD Parallel Computation

    Baoyuan Wang;Zongjun Hu;Gecheng Zha

  • Numerical investigations of injection-slot-size effect on the performance of coflow jet airfoils

    Baoyuan Wang;Bahaa Haddoukessouni;Bahaa Haddoukessouni;Jonathan Levy;Jonathan Levy;Ge Cheng Zha

  • Experimental Investigation of Jet Mixing Mechanism of Co-Flow Jet Airfoil

    Bertrand Dano;Danah Kirk;Gecheng Zha

  • Large eddy simulation using a new set of sixth order schemes for compressible viscous terms

    Yiqing Shen;Gecheng Zha

  • Experimental study of co-flow jet airfoil performance enhancement using discrete jets

    Bertrand P. E. Dano;Gecheng Zha;Michael Castillo

  • Numerical Study of Three-Dimensional Flows Using Unfactored Upwind-Relaxation Sweeping Algorithm

    G.-C. Zha;E. Bilgen

  • Implicit WENO Scheme and High Order Viscous Formulas for Compressible Flows

    Yiqing Shen;Baoyuan Wang;Gecheng Zha

  • Generalized finite compact difference scheme for shock/complex flowfield interaction

    Yiqing Shen;Gecheng Zha

  • High-Performance Supersonic Missile Inlet Design Using Automated Optimization

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

  • Fully coupled fluid–structural interactions using an efficient high resolution upwind scheme

    X.-Y. Chen;G.-C. Zha

  • Super-lift coefficient of active flow control airfoil: What is the limit?

    Yunchao Yang;Gecheng Zha

  • A Novel Airfoil Circulation Augment Flow Control Method Using Co-Flow Jet

    Ge-Cheng Zha;Craig Paxton;Coral Gables

  • High Performance Airfoil Using Co-Flow Jet Flow Control

    GeCheng Zha;Bruce F. Carroll;Craig D. Paxton;Clark A. Conley

Frequent Co-Authors

Doyle Knight
Doyle Knight Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Louis N. Cattafesta
Louis N. Cattafesta Illinois Institute of Technology

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