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D-Index
44
Citations
7782
World Ranking
1612
National Ranking
64

Ian Frigaard 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 Ian Frigaard sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 243 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian Frigaard 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 Ian Frigaard sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ian Frigaard is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, and Biomedical Engineering.

Frigaard's research extensively covers topics related to Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, and Fluid Dynamics and Mixing.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Frigaard include:

  • Alondra Renteria
  • Rodrigo S. Mitishita
  • Emad Chaparian
  • Parisa Sarmadi
  • Ruizi Zhang

Frigaard's research contributions have been published extensively in venues such as:

  • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Volume 10: Petroleum Technology
  • Geoenergy Science and Engineering

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ian Frigaard include:

  • "Eliminating injection and memory effects in bubble rise experiments within yield stress fluids," 2021, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • "Strategies for mud-removal from washouts during cementing of vertical surface casing," 2020, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • "Fully turbulent flows of viscoplastic fluids in a rectangular duct," 2021, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • "Effects of wellbore irregularity on primary cementing of horizontal wells, Part 1: Large scale effects," 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • "Primary cementing of horizontal wells. Displacement flows in eccentric horizontal annuli. Part 1. Experiments," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The work of Ian Frigaard spans experimental, computational, and applied studies within mechanical and ocean engineering contexts, with particular emphasis on fluid mechanics, yield stress fluids, and wellbore cementing processes. Their research output demonstrates interdisciplinary approaches bridging theoretical and practical elements of fluid dynamics and petroleum engineering.

Best Publications

  • Yielding to Stress: Recent Developments in Viscoplastic Fluid Mechanics

    Neil J. Balmforth;IanI A. Frigaard;Guillaume Ovarlez

  • On the usage of viscosity regularisation methods for visco-plastic fluid flow computation

    I.A. Frigaard;C. Nouar

  • Mud removal and cement placement during primary cementing of an oil well – Laminar non-Newtonian displacements in an eccentric annular Hele-Shaw cell

    S.H. Bittleston;J. Ferguson;I.A. Frigaard

  • Bingham’s model in the oil and gas industry

    Ian A Frigaard;Kristofer Gunnar Paso;Paulo R de Souza Mendes

  • A 1.5D numerical model for the start up of weakly compressible flow of a viscoplastic and thixotropic fluid in pipelines

    Anthony Wachs;Guillaume Vinay;Ian Frigaard

  • Settling of an isolated spherical particle in a yield stress shear thinning fluid

    A. M. V. Putz;T. I. Burghelea;I. A. Frigaard;D. M. Martinez

  • Start-up transients and efficient computation of isothermal waxy crude oil flows

    G. Vinay;A. Wachs;I. Frigaard

  • Static wall layers in the displacement of two visco-plastic fluids in a plane channel

    M. Allouche;I. A. Frigaard;G. Sona

  • On the stability of Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid

    I. A. Frigaard;S. D. Howison;I. J. Sobey

  • Flow of a visco-plastic fluid in a channel of slowly varying width

    I.A. Frigaard;D.P. Ryan

  • Propagation and stopping of air bubbles in Carbopol solutions

    N. Dubash;I.A. Frigaard

  • On the lubrication paradox and the use of regularisation methods for lubrication flows

    A. Putz;I.A. Frigaard;D.M. Martinez

  • Buoyancy-dominated displacement flows in near-horizontal channels: the viscous limit

    S. M. Taghavi;T. Seon;D. M. Martinez;I. A. Frigaard

  • Mud removal and cement placement during primary cementing of an oil well - Part 2; steady-state displacements

    S. Pelipenko;I.A. Frigaard

  • Conditions for static bubbles in viscoplastic fluids

    Neville Dubash;Ian Frigaard

  • Nonlinear stability of Poiseuille flow of a Bingham fluid: theoretical results and comparison with phenomenological criteria

    C. Nouar;I.A. Frigaard

  • Yield stress effects on Rayleigh–Bénard convection

    J. Zhang;D. Vola;I. A. Frigaard

  • Visco-plastic fluid displacements in near-vertical narrow eccentric annuli: prediction of travelling-wave solutions and interfacial instability

    S. Pelipenko;I. A. Frigaard

  • Modeling a turbulent fibre suspension flowing in a planar contraction: The one-dimensional headbox

    James A. Olson;Ian Frigaard;Candice Chan;Jari P. Hämäläinen

  • Temperature surges in current-limiting circuit devices

    A. C. Fowler;I. Frigaard;S. D. Howison

Frequent Co-Authors

Otmar Scherzer
Otmar Scherzer University of Vienna
Christophe Ancey
Christophe Ancey École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Sam Howison
Sam Howison University of Oxford
Neil J. Balmforth
Neil J. Balmforth University of British Columbia
Andrew C. Fowler
Andrew C. Fowler University of Limerick
James J. Feng
James J. Feng University of British Columbia
Stefan Turek
Stefan Turek TU Dortmund University
Jacques Bélair
Jacques Bélair University of Montreal

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