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D-Index
44
Citations
12320
World Ranking
1576
National Ranking
612

Khalil Khanafer 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 Khalil Khanafer sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 167 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Khalil Khanafer 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 Khalil Khanafer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Khalil Khanafer is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Engineering. Their work focuses extensively on Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment as key subfields.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of specialized areas including Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Phase Change Materials Research, Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer, and Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media.

Recent publications by Khalil Khanafer include several articles published in well-regarded journals:

  • Toward sustainable micro-drilling of Inconel 718 superalloy using MQL-Nanofluid (2020) in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
  • Effect of a circular cylinder and flexible wall on natural convective heat transfer characteristics in a cavity filled with a porous medium (2020) in Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Heat up impact on thermal stresses in SOFC for mobile APU applications: Thermo-structural analysis (2022) in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
  • Thermal analysis of fused deposition modeling process based finite element method: Simulation and parametric study (2022) in Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications
  • Analysis of turbulent two-phase flow and heat transfer using nanofluid (2021) in International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Khalil Khanafer include:

  • Kambiz Vafai
  • Ali Al-Masri
  • Ibrahim Deiab
  • Mamdouh El Haj Assad
  • Abdelkrem Eltaggaz

They have regularly published in several notable venues, including:

  • International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
  • The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
  • Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications

Best Publications

  • BUOYANCY-DRIVEN HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL ENCLOSURE UTILIZING NANOFLUIDS

    Khalil Khanafer;Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai;Marilyn Lightstone

  • A critical synthesis of thermophysical characteristics of nanofluids

    Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai

  • Mixed convection flow in a lid-driven enclosure filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium

    Khalil M. Khanafer;Ali J. Chamkha

  • A review on the applications of nanofluids in solar energy field

    Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai

  • Effects of strain rate, mixing ratio, and stress-strain definition on the mechanical behavior of the polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) material as related to its biological applications.

    Khalil Khanafer;Ambroise Duprey;Marty Schlicht;Ramon Berguer

  • The effect of radiation on free convection flow of fluid with variable viscosity from a porous vertical plate

    M.Anwar Hossain;Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai

  • Numerical simulation of unsteady mixed convection in a driven cavity using an externally excited sliding lid

    Khalil M. Khanafer;Abdalla M. Al-Amiri;Ioan Pop

  • Effect of sinusoidal wavy bottom surface on mixed convection heat transfer in a lid-driven cavity

    Abdalla Al-Amiri;Khalil Khanafer;Joseph Bull;Ioan Pop

  • Laminar mixed convection flow and heat transfer characteristics in a lid driven cavity with a circular cylinder

    Khalil Khanafer;S.M. Aithal

  • Numerical study of laminar natural convection in tilted enclosure with transverse magnetic field

    N.M. Al‐Najem;K.M. Khanafer;M.M. El‐Refaee

  • EFFECT OF HEATED WALL POSITION ON MIXED CONVECTION IN A CHANNEL WITH AN OPEN CAVITY

    Oronzio Manca;Sergio Nardini;Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai

  • Numerical simulation of combined thermal and mass transport in a square lid-driven cavity

    Abdalla M. Al-Amiri;Khalil M. Khanafer;Ioan Pop

  • DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE MIXED CONVECTION IN A LID-DRIVEN ENCLOSURE FILLED WITH A FLUID- SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM

    K. Khanafer;K. Vafai

  • Natural convection from an inclined plate embedded in a variable porosity porous medium due to solar radiation

    Ali J. Chamkha;Camille Issa;Khalil Khanafer

  • The role of porous media in biomedical engineering as related to magnetic resonance imaging and drug delivery

    K. Khanafer;K. Vafai

  • In vitro characterisation of physiological and maximum elastic modulus of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms using uniaxial tensile testing.

    Ambroise Duprey;Khalil Khanafer;Marty Schlicht;Stéphane Avril

  • Organization of Endothelial Cells, Pericytes, and Astrocytes into a 3D Microfluidic in Vitro Model of the Blood-Brain Barrier.

    Jack D. Wang;El Sayed Khafagy;El Sayed Khafagy;Khalil Khanafer;Shuichi Takayama

  • Hydromagnetic Natural Convection from AN Inclined Porous Square Enclosure with Heat Generation

    Khalil M. Khanafer;Ali J. Chamkha

  • Applications of nanofluids in porous medium

    Khalil Khanafer;Khalil Khanafer;Kambiz Vafai

  • Fluid–structure interaction analysis of mixed convection heat transfer in a lid-driven cavity with a flexible bottom wall

    Abdalla Al-Amiri;Khalil Khanafer

Frequent Co-Authors

Kambiz Vafai
Kambiz Vafai University of California, Riverside
Ioan Pop
Ioan Pop Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ahmad Sedaghat
Ahmad Sedaghat Australian University Kuwait
Ali J. Chamkha
Ali J. Chamkha Kuwait College of Science and Technology
Mohammad Ghalambaz
Mohammad Ghalambaz Ton Duc Thang University
Robert H. Bartlett
Robert H. Bartlett University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ronald B. Hirschl
Ronald B. Hirschl University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Chaouki Ghenai
Chaouki Ghenai University of Sharjah
Hassan E.S. Fath
Hassan E.S. Fath Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
Shuichi Takayama
Shuichi Takayama Georgia Institute of Technology

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