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D-Index
55
Citations
8608
World Ranking
925
National Ranking
387

Meelan M. Choudhari 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 Meelan M. Choudhari sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 348 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Meelan M. Choudhari 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 Meelan M. Choudhari sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Meelan M. Choudhari is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, applied mathematics, environmental engineering, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work engages deeply with topics related to fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics, gas dynamics and kinetic theory, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, wind and air flow studies, aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research, as well as meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Key recent publications include:

  • Direct numerical simulation of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers: effect of spatial evolution and Reynolds number (2022), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Mechanism for frustum transition over blunt cones at hypersonic speeds (2020), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Simulation and Modeling of Cold-Wall Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers on Flat Plate (2020), AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum
  • Predicting Boundary-Layer Transition over Backward-Facing Steps via Linear Stability Analysis (2020), AIAA Journal
  • Toward a Practical Method for Hypersonic Transition Prediction Based on Stability Correlations (2020), AIAA Journal

Frequent co-authors in Choudhari's body of work include Pedro Paredes, Balaji Shankar Venkatachari, Nathaniel Hildebrand, Anton Scholten, and Lian Duan.

Publication venues where Choudhari has most often contributed are:

  • AIAA Journal
  • AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum
  • AIAA AVIATION 2021 FORUM
  • AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
  • AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum

Best Publications

  • Secondary instability of crossflow vortices and swept-wing boundary-layer transition

    Mujeeb R. Malik;Fei Li;Meelan M. Choudhari;Chau-Lyan Chang

  • Direct Numerical Simulation Database for Supersonic and Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers

    Chao Zhang;Lian Duan;Meelan M. Choudhari

  • Active Control of Flow-Induced Cavity Resonance

    L. N. Cattafesta;S. Garg;M. Choudhari;F. Li

  • Computational Aeroacoustic Analysis of Slat Trailing-Edge Flow

    Bart A. Singer;David P. Lockard;Kenneth S. Brentner;Mehdi R. Khorrami

  • Unsteady Flow Computations of a Slat with a Blunt Trailing Edge

    Mehdi R. Khorrami;Mert E. Berkman;Meelan Choudhari

  • Pressure Fluctuations induced by a Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer.

    Lian Duan;Meelan M Choudhari;Chao Zhang

  • Direct numerical simulation of hypersonic turbulent boundary layers: effect of spatial evolution and Reynolds number

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  • Numerical study of acoustic radiation due to a supersonic turbulent boundary layer

    Lian Duan;Meelan M. Choudhari;Minwei Wu

  • Characterization of Unsteady Flow Structures Around Tandem Cylinders for Component Interaction Studies in Airframe Noise

    Luther N. Jenkins;Mehdi R. Khorrami;Meelan M. Choudhari;Catherine B. McGinley

  • Roughness-induced generation of crossflow vortices in three-dimensional boundary layers

    Meelan Choudhari

  • Numerical simulations of boundary-layer bypass transition due to high-amplitude free-stream turbulence

    Victor Ovchinnikov;Meelan M. Choudhari;Ugo Piomelli

  • A finite Reynolds number approach for the prediction of boundary layer receptivity in localized regions

    Meelan Choudhari;Craig L. Streett

  • Experimental Study of Slat Noise from 30P30N Three-Element High-Lift Airfoil in JAXA Hard-Wall Low-Speed Wind Tunnel

    Mitsuhiro Murayama;Kazuyuki Nakakita;Kazuomi Yamamoto;Hiroki Ura

  • Transition Analysis for the HIFiRE-5 Vehicle

    Meelan Choudhari;Chau Lyan Chang;Thomas Jentink;Fei Li

  • Measurements of Unsteady Wake Interference Between Tandem Cylinders

    Luther N. Jenkins;Dan H. Neuhart;Cahterine B. McGinley;Meelan M. Choudhari

  • Characterization of Unsteady Flow Structures Near Leading-Edge Slat. Part 1; PIV Measurements

    Luther N. Jenkins;Mehdi R. Khorrami;Meelan Choudhari

  • Unsteady Flowfield Around Tandem Cylinders as Prototype Component Interaction in Airframe Noise

    Mehdi R. Khorrami;Meelan M. Choudhari;David P. Lockard;Luther N. Jenkins

  • Aeroacoustic Experiments in the Langley Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel

    Meelan M. Choudhari;David P. Lockard;Michele G. Macaraeg;Bart A. Singer

  • Laminar-Turbulent Transition Behind Discrete Roughness Elements in a High-Speed Boundary Layer

    Meelan M. Choudhari;Fei Li;Minwei Wu;Chau-Lyan Chang

  • Effect of Three-Dimensional Shear-Layer Structures on Slat Cove Unsteadiness

    Meelan M. Choudhari;Mehdi R. Khorrami

  • Tandem Cylinder Noise Predictions

    David P. Lockard;Mehdi R. Khorrami;Meelan M. CHoudhari;Florence V. Hutcheson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chau-Lyan Chang
Chau-Lyan Chang Langley Research Center
Mehdi R. Khorrami
Mehdi R. Khorrami Langley Research Center
Mujeeb R. Malik
Mujeeb R. Malik Langley Research Center
Roger L. Kimmel
Roger L. Kimmel United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Ugo Piomelli
Ugo Piomelli Queen's University
Mark H. Carpenter
Mark H. Carpenter Langley Research Center
Jack R. Edwards
Jack R. Edwards North Carolina State University
Louis N. Cattafesta
Louis N. Cattafesta Illinois Institute of Technology
Paul Fischer
Paul Fischer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graham V. Candler
Graham V. Candler University of Minnesota

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