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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
48
Citations
12679
World Ranking
1260
National Ranking
514

Hassan Aref 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 Hassan Aref sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 143 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hassan Aref 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 Hassan Aref 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: 48 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% 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

  • 1988 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the elucidation of chaotic motion in fewvortex problems and particle advection, and for the development of numerical methods based on manyvortex interactions

Overview

Hassan Aref was affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their academic career was marked by contributions to the understanding of chaotic motion in fluid dynamics, particularly in vortex dynamics.

Aref's research received recognition in 1988 when they were named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). This honor cited their work on elucidating chaotic motion in few-vortex problems and particle advection, as well as their development of numerical methods based on many-vortex interactions.

Best Publications

  • Stirring by chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref

  • Passive mixing in a three-dimensional serpentine microchannel

    R.H. Liu;M.A. Stremler;K.V. Sharp;M.G. Olsen

  • The development of chaotic advection

    H Aref

  • INTEGRABLE, CHAOTIC, AND TURBULENT VORTEX MOTION IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOWS

    H Aref

  • Chaotic advection in a Stokes flow

    H. Aref;S. Balachandar

  • Motion of three vortices

    Hassan Aref

  • Chaotic advection by laminar flow in a twisted pipe

    Scott W. Jones;Oran M. Thomas;Hassan Aref

  • Point vortex dynamics: A classical mathematics playground

    Hassan Aref

  • Numerical experiments on Hele Shaw flow with a sharp interface

    Gretar Tryggvason;Hassan Aref

  • Frontiers of chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref;John R. Blake;Marko Budišić;Silvana S.S. Cardoso

  • Topological fluid mechanics of stirring

    Philip L. Boyland;Hassan Aref;Mark A. Stremler

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices I. The case of identical vortices

    Hassan Aref;N. Pomphrey

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices II. Collision dynamics of vortex pairs

    B. Eckhardt;Hassan Aref

  • Passive mixing in microchannels: Fabrication and flow experiments

    David J. Beebe;David J. Beebe;Ronald J. Adrian;Michael G. Olsen;Mark A. Stremler

  • Designing for chaos: applications of chaotic advection at the microscale

    Mark A. Stremler;F. R. Haselton;Hassan Aref

  • Chaotic advection in pulsed source–sink systems

    Scott W. Jones;Hassan Aref

  • Vortex dynamics of the two-dimensional turbulent shear layer

    Hassan Aref;Eric D. Siggia

  • Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices

    Hassan Aref;Neil Pomphrey;Neil Pomphrey

  • Chaos applied to fluid mixing

    Hassan Aref;M. S. El Naschie

  • Topological fluid mechanics of point vortex motions

    Philip L. Boyland;Mark A. Stremler;Hassan Aref

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Beebe
David J. Beebe University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gretar Tryggvason
Gretar Tryggvason Johns Hopkins University
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
Eliot Fried
Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Ronald J. Adrian
Ronald J. Adrian Arizona State University
Bruno Eckhardt
Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg
Tomas Bohr
Tomas Bohr Technical University of Denmark
Juan G. Santiago
Juan G. Santiago Stanford University
Deborah E. Leckband
Deborah E. Leckband University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeffrey S. Moore
Jeffrey S. Moore University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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