2026 Javier Jiménez: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	71	350	319	4	4	305	25274

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Javier Jiménez is affiliated with the Technical University of Madrid in Spain and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and medicine, with a particular focus on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Their research spans multiple related subfields, including computational mechanics, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, general health professions, and infectious diseases.

The main areas of study for Javier Jiménez include:

Engineering
Medicine

Their subfields of research encompass:

Computational Mechanics
Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
General Health Professions
Infectious Diseases

Main topics addressed in their work include:

Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
COVID-19 and Healthcare Impacts
Heat Transfer Mechanisms
Combustion and Flame Dynamics

Javier Jiménez has published research in several venues, frequently contributing to:

Journal of Fluid Mechanics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
The American Journal of Cardiology
Physical Review Fluids

Some recent publications include:

Entropy, irreversibility and cascades in the inertial range of isotropic turbulence, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
A Perron-Frobenius analysis of wall-bounded turbulence, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Hospital Outcomes Among COVID-19 Hospitalizations With Myocarditis from the California State Inpatient Database, 2022, The American Journal of Cardiology
A low-storage method consistent with second-order statistics for time-resolved databases of turbulent channel flow up to Reτ=5300, 2021, Journal of Computational Science
Linear instability and resonance effects in large-scale opposition flow control, 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Javier Jiménez include:

Sandra Chaparro
Muni Rubens
Anshul Saxena
Venkataraghavan Ramamoorthy
Juan Gabriel Ruíz

Best Publications

Turbulent flows over rough walls

Javier Jiménez

1816
Citations
THE MINIMAL FLOW UNIT IN NEAR-WALL TURBULENCE

Javier Jiménez;Parviz Moin

1513
Citations
Scaling of the velocity fluctuations in turbulent channels up to Reτ=2003

Sergio Hoyas;Javier Jiménez

1415
Citations
Boltzmann Approach to Lattice Gas Simulations

F. J. Higuera;J. Jiménez

1229
Citations
The structure of intense vorticity in isotropic turbulence

Javier Jiménez;Alan A. Wray;Philip G. Saffman;Robert S. Rogallo

1195
Citations
The autonomous cycle of near-wall turbulence

Javier Jiménez;Alfredo Pinelli

1048
Citations
Scaling of the energy spectra of turbulent channels

Juan C. Del Álamo;Javier Jiménez;Paulo Zandonade;Robert D. Moser

817
Citations
Spectra of the very large anisotropic scales in turbulent channels

Juan C. del Álamo;Javier Jiménez

617
Citations
Coherent structures in wall-bounded turbulence

Javier Jimenez

529
Citations
Effect of the computational domain on direct simulations of turbulent channels up to Reτ = 4200

Adrián Lozano-Durán;Javier Jiménez

513
Citations
One-point statistics for turbulent wall-bounded flows at Reynolds numbers up to δ+ ≈ 2000

Juan A. Sillero;Javier Jiménez;Robert D. Moser

503
Citations
Reynolds number effects on the Reynolds-stress budgets in turbulent channels

Sergio Hoyas;Javier Jiménez

477
Citations
Drag reduction by riblets

Ricardo García-Mayoral;Javier Jiménez

462
Citations
Self-similar vortex clusters in the turbulent logarithmic region

Juan C. del Álamo;Javier Jiménez;Paulo Zandonade;Robert D. Moser

435
Citations
Cascades in Wall-Bounded Turbulence

Javier Jiménez

432
Citations
Turbulent boundary layers and channels at moderate Reynolds numbers

Javier Jiménez;Sergio Hoyas;Mark P. Simens;Yoshinori Mizuno

419
Citations
Estimation of turbulent convection velocities and corrections to Taylor's approximation

Juan C. Del Álamo;Javier Jiménez

404
Citations
Linear energy amplification in turbulent channels

Juan C. del Álamo;Javier Jiménez

400
Citations
On the performance of particle tracking

Juan C. Agüí;J. Jiménez

380
Citations
A high-resolution code for turbulent boundary layers

Mark P. Simens;Javier Jiménez;Sergio Hoyas;Yoshinori Mizuno

335
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Moser The University of Texas at Austin

Julio Soria Monash University

Petros J. Ioannou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Paolo Orlandi Sapienza University of Rome

Parviz Moin Stanford University

Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne

Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata

Philip Geoffrey Saffman California Institute of Technology

Carlo Massimo Casciola Sapienza University of Rome

José L. Carrascosa Spanish National Research Council

External Links

Personal website of Javier Jiménez Google Scholar page

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