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D-Index
54
Citations
11153
World Ranking
954
National Ranking
63

Ian P. Castro 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 P. Castro sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 177 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian P. Castro 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 P. Castro sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ian P. Castro is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their body of work primarily falls within the field of Engineering, with specific contributions across several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Ecology, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research, Heat Transfer Mechanisms, Wind and Air Flow Studies, and Noise Effects and Management.

Ian P. Castro has authored publications in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, where they have three papers, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, with three papers, and the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, with one publication.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian P. Castro include:

  • Channel flow with large longitudinal ribs, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Secondary motions in turbulent ribbed channel flows, 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • DISABILITY CRITICAL RACE THEORY (DISCRIT) AND GEOSCIENCE: A CALL TO ACTION FOR NEW FRAMEWORKS TO ASSESS ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION, 2022, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Frequent collaborators of Ian P. Castro include Jae Wook Kim, Christopher L. Atchison, Murilo M. Cicolin, Simone Chellini, and B. Usherwood. Co-authorship has occurred most consistently with Kim and Atchison, each contributing to two joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The flow around a surface-mounted cube in uniform and turbulent streams

    I. P. Castro;A. G. Robins

  • Near Wall Flow over Urban-like Roughness

    Hong Cheng;Ian P. Castro

  • Mean Flow and Turbulence Statistics Over Groups of Urban-like Cubical Obstacles

    O. Coceal;T. G. Thomas;I. P. Castro;S. E. Belcher

  • Efficient Generation of Inflow Conditions for Large Eddy Simulation of Street-Scale Flows

    Zheng-Tong Xie;Ian P. Castro

  • LES and RANS for turbulent flow over arrays of wall-mounted obstacles

    Zhengtong Xie;Ian P. Castro

  • Wake characteristics of two-dimensional perforated plates normal to an air-stream

    I. P. Castro

  • The structure of a turbulent shear layer bounding a separation region

    I. P. Castro;A. Haque

  • Large-eddy simulation for flow and dispersion in urban streets

    Zheng-Tong Xie;Ian P. Castro

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of Flows over Random Urban-like Obstacles

    Zheng-Tong Xie;Omduth Coceal;Ian P. Castro

  • Channel flow over large cube roughness: a direct numerical simulation study

    Stefano Leonardi;Ian P. Castro

  • Turbulence Over Urban-type Roughness: Deductions from Wind-tunnel Measurements

    Ian P. Castro;Hong Cheng;Ryan Reynolds

  • The structure of strongly stratified flow over hills: dividing-streamline concept.

    William H. Snyder;Roger S. Thompson;Robert E. Eskridge;Robert E. Lawson

  • Rough-wall boundary layers: mean flow universality

    Ian P. Castro

  • A pulsed-wire technique for velocity measurements in highly turbulent flows

    L. J. S. Bradbury;I. P. Castro

  • Flow around a cube in a turbulent boundary layer: LES and experiment

    Hee Chang Lim;T.G. Thomas;Ian P. Castro

  • Flow over cube arrays of different packing densities

    H. Cheng;P. Hayden;A.G. Robins;I.P. Castro

  • Air flow and sand transport over sand-dunes

    W. S. Weng;J. C. R. Hunt;D. J. Carruthers;A. Warren

  • Divergence-free turbulence inflow conditions for large-eddy simulations with incompressible flow solvers

    Yusik Kim;Ian P. Castro;Zheng-Tong Xie

  • A LIMITED-LENGTH-SCALE k-ε MODEL FOR THE NEUTRAL AND STABLY-STRATIFIED ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER

    David D. Apsley;Ian P. Castro

  • The turbulence structure of a highly curved mixing layer

    I. P. Castro;P. Bradshaw

  • Bluff bodies in deep turbulent boundary layers: Reynolds-number issues

    Hee Chang Lim;Ian P. Castro;Roger P. Hoxey

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Robins
Alan Robins University of Surrey
Stefano Leonardi
Stefano Leonardi Sapienza University of Rome
Giles F.S. Wiggs
Giles F.S. Wiggs University of Oxford
Joanna E. Bullard
Joanna E. Bullard Loughborough University
P. Henrik Alfredsson
P. Henrik Alfredsson Royal Institute of Technology
Daniele Contini
Daniele Contini Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Paolo Orlandi
Paolo Orlandi Sapienza University of Rome
Peter G. Baines
Peter G. Baines University of Melbourne
Jean-Louis Rajot
Jean-Louis Rajot Université Paris Cité

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