2026 Katepalli R. Sreenivasan: 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	99	71	67	38	34	511	33006
Physics	100	1658	1578	874	819	575	34068

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)

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

1467
Citations
Simple multifractal cascade model for fully developed turbulence.

C. Meneveau;K. R. Sreenivasan

1257
Citations
The multifractal nature of turbulent energy dissipation

Charles Meneveau;K. R. Sreenivasan

1070
Citations
Wall-bounded turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers: Recent advances and key issues

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

940
Citations
On the universality of the Kolmogorov constant

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

918
Citations
Turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers

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

845
Citations
FRACTALS AND MULTIFRACTALS IN FLUID TURBULENCE

Katepalli Sreenivasan

820
Citations
ON THE FORMATION AND SUPPRESSION OF VORTEX 'SHEDDING' AT LOW REYNOLDS NUMBERS

P. J. Strykowski;K. R. Sreenivasan

799
Citations
The fractal facets of turbulence

K. R. Sreenivasan;C. Meneveau

621
Citations
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

614
Citations
Onsager and the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence

Gregory L. Eyink;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

577
Citations
On the scaling of the turbulence energy dissipation rate

K. R. Sreenivasan

496
Citations
On Local Isotropy of Passive Scalars in Turbulent Shear Flows

Katepalli Sreenivasan

478
Citations
Superfluid helium: visualization of quantized vortices.

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

451
Citations
An update on the energy dissipation rate in isotropic turbulence

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

440
Citations
Relaminarization of fluid flows

R. Narasimha;K. R. Sreenivasan

385
Citations
The passive scalar spectrum and the Obukhov–Corrsin constant

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

356
Citations
The onset of drag reduction by dilute polymer additives, and the maximum drag reduction asymptote

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;Christopher M. White

347
Citations
Introduction to quantum turbulence

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

345
Citations
The multifractal spectrum of the dissipation field in turbulent flows

C. Meneveau;K.R. Sreenivasan

339
Citations
Turbulence, Coherent Structures, Dynamical Systems and Symmetry: Preface

Philip Holmes;John L. Lumley;Gal Berkooz

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland, College Park

Jörg Schumacher Ilmenau University of Technology

R. A. Antonia University of Newcastle Australia

Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology

Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University

Russell J. Donnelly University of Oregon

Victor Yakhot Boston University

Roddam Narasimha Indian Institute of Science

Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata

Michael E. Fisher University of Maryland, College Park

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