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D-Index
57
Citations
11989
World Ranking
802
National Ranking
345

Kuppalapalle Vajravelu 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 Kuppalapalle Vajravelu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 339 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kuppalapalle Vajravelu 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 Kuppalapalle Vajravelu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kuppalapalle Vajravelu is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with significant contributions in several specialized subfields.

Their subfields of study include:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
  • Modeling and Simulation

The main research topics covered by Vajravelu include:

  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films

Vajravelu has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Physics of Fluids
  • Numerical Heat Transfer Part A Applications
  • International Journal of Modelling and Simulation
  • The European Physical Journal Plus
  • Heat Transfer

The following recent papers illustrate some of Vajravelu's research output:

  • Diffusion effects on mixed convective peristaltic flow of a bi-viscous Bingham nanofluid through a porous medium with convective boundary conditions, 2023, Physics of Fluids
  • Peristaltic transport of MHD Ree-Eyring fluid through a flexible channel under the influence of activation energy, 2023, Physics of Fluids
  • Unsteady MHD flow of a Williamson nanofluid on a permeable stretching surface with radiation and chemical reaction effects, 2021, The European Physical Journal Special Topics
  • Heat source and Joule heating effects on convective MHD stagnation point flow of Casson nanofluid through a porous medium with chemical reaction, 2023, Numerical Heat Transfer Part B Fundamentals
  • Significance of non-Fourier heat flux and radiation on PEG - Water based hybrid Nanofluid flow among revolving disks with chemical reaction and entropy generation optimization, 2021, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Frequent collaborators of Vajravelu include:

  • P. Lakshminarayana
  • G. Sucharitha
  • M. Vinodkumar Reddy
  • Swati Mukhopadhyay
  • M. Ajithkumar

Their body of work reflects a strong focus on fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and nanofluid flows across porous media and complex mechanical systems. The research covers theoretical, computational, and applied mechanics aspects, with an emphasis on transport phenomena under varying physical and chemical influences.

Best Publications

  • Viscous flow over a nonlinearly stretching sheet

    K. Vajravelu

  • Heat transfer in a viscous fluid over a stretching sheet with viscous dissipation and internal heat generation

    K. Vajravelu;A. Hadjinicolaou

  • Forced convection heat transfer in a semi annulus under the influence of a variable magnetic field

    Mohsen Sheikholeslami;Kuppalapalle Vajravelu;Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi;Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi

  • Convective heat transfer in the flow of viscous Ag–water and Cu–water nanofluids over a stretching surface

    K. Vajravelu;K.V. Prasad;Jinho Lee;Changhoon Lee

  • Peristaltic flow and heat transfer in a vertical porous annulus, with long wave approximation

    K. Vajravelu;G. Radhakrishnamacharya;V. Radhakrishnamurty

  • Convective heat transfer in an electrically conducting fluid at a stretching surface with uniform free stream

    K. Vajravelu;A. Hadjinicolaou

  • HYDROMAGNETIC CONVECTION AT A CONE AND A WEDGE

    K. Vajravelu;J. Nayfeh

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulation of magnetohydrodynamic natural convection heat transfer of Al2O3–water nanofluid in a horizontal cylindrical enclosure with an inner triangular cylinder

    Mohsen Sheikholeslami;Mofid Gorji-Bandpy;Kuppalapalle Vajravelu

  • Nanofluid flow and heat transfer in a cavity with variable magnetic field

    M. Sheikholeslami;K. Vajravelu

  • The influence of heat transfer on peristaltic transport of a Jeffrey fluid in a vertical porous stratum

    K. Vajravelu;S. Sreenadh;P. Lakshminarayana

  • Flow and heat transfer in a second grade fluid over a stretching sheet

    K. Vajravelu;T. Roper

  • Peristaltic transport of a Herschel–Bulkley fluid in an inclined tube

    K. Vajravelu;S. Sreenadh;V. Ramesh Babu

  • Radiation effects on mixed convection about a cone embedded in a porous medium filled with a nanofluid

    Ali J. Chamkha;S. Abbasbandy;A. M. Rashad;K. Vajravelu

  • Boundary layer flow past a stretching/shrinking surface beneath an external uniform shear flow with a convective surface boundary condition in a nanofluid.

    Nor Azizah Yacob;Anuar Mohd Ishak;Ioan Pop;Kuppalapalle Vajravelu

  • The effects of variable fluid properties and thermocapillarity on the flow of a thin film on an unsteady stretching sheet

    B.S. Dandapat;B. Santra;K. Vajravelu

  • Stagnation-point flow and heat transfer over an exponentially shrinking sheet

    Krishnendu Bhattacharyya;Kuppalapalle Vajravelu

  • Radiation effects on mixed convection about a cone embedded in a porous medium filled with a nanofluid

    Ali J. Chamkha;S. Abbasbandy;A. M. Rashad;K. Vajravelu

  • Hydromagnetic flow of a dusty fluid over a stretching sheet

    K. Vajravelu;J. Nayfeh

  • Unsteady convective boundary layer flow of a viscous fluid at a vertical surface with variable fluid properties

    K. Vajravelu;K.V. Prasad;Chiu-On Ng

  • Fully developed laminar free convection flow between two parallel vertical walls—I

    K. Vajravelu;K.S. Sastri

  • Second order slip flow and heat transfer over a stretching sheet with non-linear Navier boundary condition

    Mahantesh M. Nandeppanavar;K. Vajravelu;M. Subhas Abel;M.N. Siddalingappa;M.N. Siddalingappa

  • On the selection of auxiliary functions, operators, and convergence control parameters in the application of the Homotopy Analysis Method to nonlinear differential equations: A general approach

    Robert A. Van Gorder;K. Vajravelu

Frequent Co-Authors

Swati Mukhopadhyay
Swati Mukhopadhyay University of Burdwan
Dulal Pal
Dulal Pal Visva-Bharati University
Ioan Pop
Ioan Pop Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Saeid Abbasbandy
Saeid Abbasbandy Imam Khomeini International University
Shijun Liao
Shijun Liao Shanghai Jiao Tong University
John Rozier Cannon
John Rozier Cannon University of Central Florida
Mohsen Sheikholeslami
Mohsen Sheikholeslami Babol Noshirvani University of Technology
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi Tongji University
Oluwole Daniel Makinde
Oluwole Daniel Makinde Stellenbosch University
Changhoon Lee
Changhoon Lee Yonsei University

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