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Gianluca Iaccarino

Gianluca Iaccarino

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
17155
World Ranking
831
National Ranking
354

Gianluca Iaccarino 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 Gianluca Iaccarino sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 450 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gianluca Iaccarino 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 Gianluca Iaccarino sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gianluca Iaccarino is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering, with a focus on computational mechanics, statistics, probability and uncertainty, as well as statistical and nonlinear physics. Additional subfields include aerospace engineering and environmental engineering.

Their work covers a range of topics, primarily in probabilistic and robust engineering design and model reduction using neural networks. They also study fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, wind and air flow phenomena, and particle dynamics within fluid flows. Further interests include advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms and combustion and flame dynamics.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Renato Tognaccini, Ettore Saetta, Alireza Doostan, Mark Benjamin, and Lluís Jofre.

Gianluca Iaccarino has published extensively in several venues. Notable publication outlets are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification
  • International Journal of Multiphase Flow
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Combustion and Flame

Recent papers include:

  • Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Data-driven dimensional analysis of heat transfer in irradiated particle-laden turbulent flow, 2020, International Journal of Multiphase Flow
  • Estimating RANS model uncertainty using machine learning, 2021, Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society
  • Design exploration and optimization under uncertainty, 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • A benchmark for particle-laden turbulent duct flow: A joint computational and experimental study, 2020, International Journal of Multiphase Flow

Best Publications

  • IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS

    Rajat Mittal;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Turbulence Modeling in the Age of Data

    Karthik Duraisamy;Gianluca Iaccarino;Heng Xiao

  • Near-wall behavior of RANS turbulence models and implications for wall functions

    Georgi Kalitzin;Gorazd Medic;Gianluca Iaccarino;Paul Durbin

  • Numerical simulation of the flow around a circular cylinder at high Reynolds numbers

    Pietro Catalano;Meng Wang;Gianluca Iaccarino;Parviz Moin

  • Immersed boundary technique for turbulent flow simulations

    Gianluca Iaccarino;Roberto Verzicco

  • Reynolds averaged simulation of unsteady separated flow

    G. Iaccarino;A. Ooi;P.A. Durbin;M. Behnia

  • Spinning-enabled wireless amphibious origami millirobot

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  • Predictions of a turbulent separated flow using commercial CFD codes

    Gianluca Iaccarino

  • An immersed boundary method for compressible flows using local grid refinement

    M. D. de Tullio;P. De Palma;G. Iaccarino;G. Pascazio

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Reacting Turbulent Flows in Complex Geometries

    K. Mahesh;G. Constantinescu;S. Apte;G. Iaccarino

  • Reynolds averaged simulation of flow and heat transfer in ribbed ducts

    A. Ooi;G. Iaccarino;P.A. Durbin;M. Behnia

  • Modeling of structural uncertainties in Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes closures

    Michael Emory;Johan Larsson;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Experimental and computational study of unsteady wake flow behind a bluff body with a drag reduction device

    Bahram Khalighi;S. Zhang;C. Koromilas;S. R. Balkanyi

  • A least-squares approximation of partial differential equations with high-dimensional random inputs

    Alireza Doostan;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Exploiting Active Subspaces to Quantify Uncertainty in the Numerical Simulation of the HyShot II Scramjet

    Paul G. Constantine;Michael Emory;Johan Larsson;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Minimal Repetition Dynamic Checkpointing Algorithm for Unsteady Adjoint Calculation

    Qiqi Wang;Parviz Moin;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations of the HyShot II Scramjet

    René Pecnik;Vincent E. Terrapon;Frank Ham;Gianluca Iaccarino

  • On the HLLC Riemann solver for interface interaction in compressible multi-fluid flow

    X. Y. Hu;N. A. Adams;G. Iaccarino

  • Analysis of Flow Conditions in Freejet Experiments for Studying Airfoil Self-Noise

    Stéphane Moreau;Manuel Henner;Gianluca Iaccarino;Meng Wang

  • LES Prediction of Wall-Pressure Fluctuations and Noise of a Low-Speed Airfoil

    Meng Wang;Stephane Moreau;Gianluca Iaccarino;Michel Roger

  • Non-intrusive low-rank separated approximation of high-dimensional stochastic models

    Alireza Doostan;AbdoulAhad Validi;Gianluca Iaccarino

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric S. G. Shaqfeh
Eric S. G. Shaqfeh Stanford University
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin Stanford University
Jan Nordström
Jan Nordström Linköping University
Ali Mani
Ali Mani Stanford University
John K. Eaton
John K. Eaton Stanford University
Stéphane Moreau
Stéphane Moreau Université de Sherbrooke
Rémi Abgrall
Rémi Abgrall University of Zurich
Andrew Ooi
Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne
Paul A. Durbin
Paul A. Durbin Iowa State University
Heinz Pitsch
Heinz Pitsch RWTH Aachen University

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