2026 John H. Merkin: 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	44	1590	1472	115	101	287	9033

Overview

John H. Merkin is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Chemical Engineering, with a strong focus on Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Mechanical Engineering, and Numerical Analysis.

The scientist's work covers several interconnected topics, including:

Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
Heat Transfer Mechanisms
Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies

Merkin's publication record includes papers in journals specializing in heat, fluid flow, and transport phenomena. Frequent publication venues include:

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
Meccanica
Transport in Porous Media
International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Merkin are:

"Mixed convective stagnation point flow of a hybrid nanofluid toward a vertical cylinder" (2021), published in International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
"Flow and heat transfer for MHD wall jet of hybrid nanofluids: theoretical and numerical solutions" (2023), International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
"A note on the asymptotic behaviour of axisymmetric stagnation-point flow and heat transfer of a viscous fluid past a permeable stretching/shrinking cylinder" (2022), International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
"MHD Mixed Convection Flow Over a Permeable Vertical Flat Plate Embedded in a Darcy-Forchheimer Porous Medium" (2024), Transport in Porous Media
"On an equation arising in the boundary-layer flow of stretching/shrinking permeable surfaces" (2020), Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Merkin include:

Ioan Pop
Yian Yian Lok
Teodor Groșan
Natalia C. Roșca
Emad H. Aly

Best Publications

On dual solutions occurring in mixed convection in a porous medium

J. H. Merkin

878
Citations
A simple isothermal model for homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in boundary-layer flow. I Equal diffusivities

M A Chaudhary;J H Merkin

422
Citations
A model for isothermal homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in boundary-layer flow

J. H. Merkin

398
Citations
Natural-convection boundary-layer flow on a vertical surface with Newtonian heating

J.H. Merkin

357
Citations
Mixed convection boundary layer flow on a vertical surface in a saturated porous medium

J. H. Merkin

316
Citations
Mixed convection from a horizontal circular cylinder

J.H. Merkin

264
Citations
Mechanism reduction for the oscillatory oxidation of hydrogen; Sensitivity and quasi-steady-state analyses

Alison S. Tomlin;Michael J. Pilling;Tamás Turányi;John H. Merkin

237
Citations
On roll waves down an open inclined channel

D. J. Needham;J. H. Merkin

184
Citations
The effect of buoyancy forces on the boundary-layer flow over a semi-infinite vertical flat plate in a uniform free stream

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180
Citations
Free Convection Boundary Layers on Cylinders of Elliptic Cross Section

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171
Citations
A SIMPLE ISOTHERMAL MODEL FOR HOMOGENEOUS-HETEROGENEOUS REACTIONS IN BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW. II: DIFFERENT DIFFUSIVITIES FOR REACTANT AND AUTOCATALYST

M A Chaudhary;J H Merkin

148
Citations
Free convection boundary layers on axi-symmetric and two-dimensional bodies of arbitrary shape in a saturated porous medium

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134
Citations
Mixed convection boundary layer similarity solutions: prescribed wall heat flux

J. H. Merkin;T. Mahmood

124
Citations
Conjugate free convection on a vertical surface

J.H. Merkin;I. Pop

120
Citations
Free convection with blowing and suction

J.H Merkin

117
Citations
Propagating reaction-diffusion waves in a simple isothermal quadratic autocatalytic chemical system

J. H. Merkin;D. J. Needham

111
Citations
The propagation of a voidage disturbance in a uniformly fluidized bed

D. J. Needham;J. H. Merkin

100
Citations
Free convection boundary layers in a saturated porous medium with lateral mass flux

J.H. Merkin

93
Citations
Oscillatory chemical reactions in closed vessels

J. H. Merkin;D. J. Needham;Stephen K. Scott

93
Citations
Similarity solutions in free convection boundary-layer flows adjacent to vertical permeable surfaces in porous media: II prescribed surface heat flux

M. A. Chaudhary;J. H. Merkin;I. Pop

90
Citations
Mixed convection boundary layer flow over a permeable vertical surface with prescribed wall heat flux

A. Ishak;J. H. Merkin;R. Nazar;I. Pop

82
Citations
Similarity solutions in axisymmetric mixed convection boundary-layer flow

T. Mahmood;J. H. Merkin

80
Citations
Wave-induced chemical chaos.

John H. Merkin;Valery Petrov;Stephen K. Scott;Kenneth Showalter

80
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ioan Pop Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Serafim Kalliadasis Imperial College London

Derek B. Ingham University of Sheffield

Michael J. Pilling University of Leeds

Roslinda Mohd. Nazar National University of Malaysia

Miloš Marek University of Chemistry and Technology

Anuar Mohd Ishak National University of Malaysia

Alison S. Tomlin University of Leeds

Norfifah Bachok Universiti Putra Malaysia

Teodor Grosan Babeș-Bolyai University

External Links

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