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D-Index
50
Citations
11917
World Ranking
1153
National Ranking
464

James T. Jenkins 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 James T. Jenkins sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 209 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James T. Jenkins 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 James T. Jenkins sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

James T. Jenkins is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed significantly to research in engineering and environmental science. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on granular flow and fluidized beds, particle dynamics in fluid flows, landslides and related hazards, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, hydrology and sediment transport processes, heat and mass transfer in porous media, and material dynamics and properties.

Their publication record includes pivotal studies published in journals frequently associated with their research domain. These venues comprise the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, EPJ Web of Conferences, Physical Review E, and Soft Matter.

James T. Jenkins's recent research articles include:

  • Segregation in a dense, inclined, granular flow with basal layering, 2020, Granular Matter
  • Self-diffusion scalings in dense granular flows, 2021, Soft Matter
  • Particle segregation in inclined high-speed granular flows, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Extended kinetic theory for granular flow in a vertical chute, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Dense, steady, fully developed fluid-particle flows over inclined, erodible beds, 2023, Physical Review Fluids

In collaboration, James T. Jenkins frequently partners with several co-authors, including Michele Larcher, Luigi La Ragione, Diego Berzi, Alexandre Valance, and Riccardo Artoni, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach across their fields of study.

Their research engages deeply with subfields such as computational mechanics, ocean engineering, and elements of management, monitoring, policy, and law, extending also into ecology and mechanical engineering. These areas underscore their broad investigation into both theoretical and applied aspects of materials and environmental dynamics.

The core topics in their work emphasize:

  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Particle dynamics in fluid flows
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Fluid dynamics and turbulent flows
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes
  • Heat and mass transfer in porous media
  • Material dynamics and properties

Best Publications

  • A theory for the rapid flow of identical, smooth, nearly elastic, spherical particles

    J. T. Jenkins;S. B. Savage

  • Kinetic theory for plane flows of a dense gas of identical, rough, inelastic, circular disks

    J. T. Jenkins;M. W. Richman

  • Grad’s 13-Moment System for a Dense Gas of Inelastic Spheres

    J. T. Jenkins;M. W. Richman

  • Thermal fluctuations of large quasi-spherical bimolecular phospholipid vesicles

    M.B. Schneider;J.T. Jenkins;W.W. Webb

  • Membrane Elasticity in Giant Vesicles with Fluid Phase Coexistence

    T. Baumgart;S. Das;W.W. Webb;J.T. Jenkins

  • The role of particle collisions in pneumatic transport

    M. Y. Louge;E. Mastorakos;J. T. Jenkins

  • Kinetic theory for binary mixtures of smooth, nearly elastic spheres

    J. T. Jenkins;F. Mancini

  • On two-phase sediment transport: sheet flow of massive particles

    Tian-Jian Hsu;James T. Jenkins;Philip L.-F. Liu

  • Balance Laws and Constitutive Relations for Plane Flows of a Dense, Binary Mixture of Smooth, Nearly Elastic, Circular Disks

    J. T. Jenkins;F. Mancini

  • Kinetic theory for identical, frictional, nearly elastic spheres

    James T. Jenkins;Chao Zhang

  • Plane simple shear of smooth inelastic circular disks: the anisotropy of the second moment in the dilute and dense limits

    J. T Jenkins;Mark W Richman

  • Superstable granular heap in a thin channel.

    Nicolas Taberlet;Nicolas Taberlet;Patrick Richard;Alexandre Valance;Wolfgang Losert

  • Boundary conditions for plane flows of smooth, nearly elastic, circular disks

    J. T. Jenkins;M. W. Richman

  • Static equilibrium configurations of a model red blood cell.

    J. T. Jenkins

  • Collisional sheet flows of sediment driven by a turbulent fluid

    James T. Jenkins;Daniel M. Hanes

  • Boundary Conditions for Rapid Granular Flow: Flat, Frictional Walls

    J. T. Jenkins

  • Thermal fluctuations of large cylindrical phospholipid vesicles

    M.B. Schneider;J.T. Jenkins;W.W. Webb

  • On two‐phase sediment transport: Dilute flow

    Tian-Jian Hsu;Tian-Jian Hsu;James T. Jenkins;Philip L.-F. Liu

  • Dense shearing flows of inelastic disks

    James T. Jenkins

  • Dense inclined flows of inelastic spheres

    James T. Jenkins

  • The role of particle collisions in pneumatic transport

    E. Mastorakos;M. Louge;J. T. Jenkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Tian-Jian Hsu
Tian-Jian Hsu University of Delaware
Philip L.-F. Liu
Philip L.-F. Liu National University of Singapore
Haitao Xu
Haitao Xu University of Science and Technology Beijing
Paul R. Dawson
Paul R. Dawson Cornell University
Daniel M. Hanes
Daniel M. Hanes Saint Louis University
Epaminondas Mastorakos
Epaminondas Mastorakos University of Cambridge
Tobias Baumgart
Tobias Baumgart University of Pennsylvania
Robert Behringer
Robert Behringer Duke University
Ricky D. Wildman
Ricky D. Wildman University of Nottingham
Anand Jagota
Anand Jagota Lehigh University

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