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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 99 71 67 38 34 511 33006
Physics 100 1658 1578 874 819 575 34068

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Katepalli R. Sreenivasan between 1973 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan published across 53 years, from 1973 to 2025, averaging 12.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 29 publications in 2008. 33 of the 661 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1973 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 29. Peak 29 publications in 2008. 1973: 2 publications 1974: 1 publication 1975: 0 publications 1976: 2 publications 1977: 6 publications 1978: 7 publications 1979: 3 publications 1980: 2 publications 1981: 6 publications 1982: 6 publications 1983: 5 publications 1984: 4 publications 1985: 6 publications 1986: 3 publications 1987: 5 publications 1988: 9 publications 1989: 10 publications 1990: 9 publications 1991: 10 publications 1992: 7 publications 1993: 12 publications 1994: 9 publications 1995: 9 publications 1996: 14 publications 1997: 14 publications 1998: 14 publications 1999: 8 publications 2000: 13 publications 2001: 10 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 22 publications 2004: 22 publications 2005: 28 publications 2006: 28 publications 2007: 15 publications 2008: 29 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 13 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 26 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 26 publications 2022: 22 publications 2023: 24 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 15 publications
1973 2025

661 publications in total across all disciplines

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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan: publications per year, 1973 to 2025
Year Publications
1973 2
1974 1
1975 0
1976 2
1977 6
1978 7
1979 3
1980 2
1981 6
1982 6
1983 5
1984 4
1985 6
1986 3
1987 5
1988 9
1989 10
1990 9
1991 10
1992 7
1993 12
1994 9
1995 9
1996 14
1997 14
1998 14
1999 8
2000 13
2001 10
2002 10
2003 22
2004 22
2005 28
2006 28
2007 15
2008 29
2009 12
2010 20
2011 18
2012 15
2013 12
2014 11
2015 13
2016 13
2017 11
2018 17
2019 26
2020 28
2021 26
2022 22
2023 24
2024 18
2025 15
Total 661
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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan 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 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 507–516 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 511 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13 511
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Katepalli R. Sreenivasan 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 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 93+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100 99
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the application of modern non-linear dynamics to turbulent flows.
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1985 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributing two major recent advances in fluid mechanics, the understanding of relaminarization of certain turbulent flows and the connection of the turbulent structure of wakes with lowdimensional chaos
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan is affiliated with New York University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in engineering and physics and astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including computational mechanics, astronomy and astrophysics, artificial intelligence, global and planetary change, and environmental engineering.

The scientist's main research topics encompass fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, wind and air flow studies, solar and space plasma dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, particle dynamics in fluid flows, and astro and planetary science.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Colloquium: Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun, 2020, Reviews of Modern Physics
  • Classical 1/3 scaling of convection holds up to Ra = 10 15, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A perspective on machine learning in turbulent flows, 2020, Journal of Turbulence
  • Reynolds number scaling of the peak turbulence intensity in wall flows, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Quantum computing for fluids: Where do we stand?, 2023, Europhysics Letters (EPL)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Jörg Schumacher
  • Dhawal Buaria
  • Sachin S. Bharadwaj
  • Kartik P. Iyer
  • Shravan M. Hanasoge

Publication venues for their work frequently include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physics of Fluids

The scientist has authored books, including Quantum Turbulence published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Throughout their career, they have been recognized with several awards and honors, including:

  • Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020
  • Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2007
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (For the application of modern non-linear dynamics to turbulent flows), 1999
  • Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences, 1998
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1998
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (Citation For contributing two major recent advances in fluid mechanics, the understanding of relaminarization of certain turbulent flows and the connection of the turbulent structure of wakes with low-dimensional chaos), 1985
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Best Publications

  • THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;R. A. Antonia

  • Simple multifractal cascade model for fully developed turbulence.

    C. Meneveau;K. R. Sreenivasan

  • The multifractal nature of turbulent energy dissipation

    Charles Meneveau;K. R. Sreenivasan

  • Wall-bounded turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers: Recent advances and key issues

    Ivan Marusic;Beverley J McKeon;Peter A Monkewitz;Hassan M Nagib

  • On the universality of the Kolmogorov constant

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers

    J. J. Niemela;L. Skrbek;K. R. Sreenivasan;K. R. Sreenivasan;R. J. Donnelly

  • FRACTALS AND MULTIFRACTALS IN FLUID TURBULENCE

    Katepalli Sreenivasan

  • ON THE FORMATION AND SUPPRESSION OF VORTEX 'SHEDDING' AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS

    P. J. Strykowski;K. R. Sreenivasan

  • The fractal facets of turbulence

    K. R. Sreenivasan;C. Meneveau

  • Direct determination of the f( alpha ) singularity spectrum and its application to fully developed turbulence.

    Ashvin B. Chhabra;Charles Meneveau;Roderick V. Jensen;K. R. Sreenivasan

  • Onsager and the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence

    Gregory L. Eyink;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • On the scaling of the turbulence energy dissipation rate

    K. R. Sreenivasan

  • On Local Isotropy of Passive Scalars in Turbulent Shear Flows

    Katepalli Sreenivasan

  • Superfluid helium: visualization of quantized vortices.

    Gregory P. Bewley;Gregory P. Bewley;Daniel P. Lathrop;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • An update on the energy dissipation rate in isotropic turbulence

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • Relaminarization of fluid flows

    R. Narasimha;K. R. Sreenivasan

  • The passive scalar spectrum and the Obukhov–Corrsin constant

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • The onset of drag reduction by dilute polymer additives, and the maximum drag reduction asymptote

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;Christopher M. White

  • Introduction to quantum turbulence

    Carlo F. Barenghi;Ladislav Skrbek;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • The multifractal spectrum of the dissipation field in turbulent flows

    C. Meneveau;K.R. Sreenivasan

  • Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry: Preface

    Philip Holmes;John L. Lumley;Gal Berkooz

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. Lathrop
Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland, College Park
Jörg Schumacher
Jörg Schumacher Ilmenau University of Technology
R. A. Antonia
R. A. Antonia University of Newcastle Australia
Shiyi Chen
Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Russell J. Donnelly
Russell J. Donnelly University of Oregon
Victor Yakhot
Victor Yakhot Boston University
Roddam Narasimha
Roddam Narasimha Indian Institute of Science
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata
Michael E. Fisher
Michael E. Fisher University of Maryland, College Park

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