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Michael A. Delichatsios

Michael A. Delichatsios

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
46
Citations
7137
World Ranking
1467
National Ranking
101

Michael A. Delichatsios 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 Michael A. Delichatsios sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 206 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael A. Delichatsios 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 Michael A. Delichatsios sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for novel and influential contributions in fire research

Overview

Michael A. Delichatsios is affiliated with the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom. Their research specializes in engineering, with a particular focus on fire dynamics and related safety issues. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields including safety, risk, reliability and quality, aerospace engineering, ocean engineering, computational mechanics, and civil and structural engineering.

The primary topics covered in their research involve:

  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Combustion and detonation processes
  • Evacuation and crowd dynamics
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Fire effects on concrete materials
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Flame retardant materials and properties

Michael A. Delichatsios has contributed to various journals and publication venues throughout their career. The most frequent venues include:

  • Fire Safety Journal
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Fire Technology
  • Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
  • Combustion and Flame

The scientist's notable recent publications are:

  • "Flame behavior from an opening at different elevations on the facade wall of a fire compartment" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • "Effects of material thickness on ignition times and creeping flame spread in the thermal regime: Theory, analytical solution and experimental justification" (2020), published in Fire Safety Journal
  • "The effect of pressure on the characteristics of laminar jet diffusion flame: A similarity analysis and experimental study" (2020), published in Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
  • "Flame height and oscillation frequency of rectangular-source fires at different separation distances from a facade wall" (2024), published in Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • "Experimental investigation of underventilated fires in enclosures with two front vertical openings and occurrence of smoke explosions" (2020), published in Fire Safety Journal

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Longhua Hu
  • Aobo Liu
  • Yiannis A. Levendis
  • A.G. Venetsanos
  • Kaihua Lu

Michael A. Delichatsios received recognition as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2020 for novel and influential contributions in fire research.

Best Publications

  • Rapid Microwave Synthesis of CO Tolerant Reduced Graphene Oxide-Supported Platinum Electrocatalysts for Oxidation of Methanol

    Surbhi Sharma;Abhijit Ganguly;Pagona Papakonstantinou;Xiaopei Miao

  • Transition from momentum to buoyancy-controlled turbulent jet diffusion flames and flame height relationships

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  • The flow of fire gases under a beamed ceiling

    Michael A. Delichatsios

  • Heat fluxes and flame heights in façades from fires in enclosures of varying geometry

    Yee-Ping Lee;Michael A. Delichatsios;G.W.H. Silcock

  • The initial convective flow in fire

    Gunnar Heskestad;Michael A. Delichatsios

  • Experimental study on flame height and temperature profile of buoyant window spill plume from an under-ventilated compartment fire

    F. Tang;L.H. Hu;M.A. Delichatsios;K.H. Lu

  • Flammability properties for charring materials

    Michael Delichatsios;Bradley Paroz;Atul Bhargava

  • The use of time to ignition data for characterizing the thermal inertia and the minimum (critical) heat flux for ignition or pyrolysis

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  • An inter-comparison exercise on the capabilities of CFD models to predict the short and long term distribution and mixing of hydrogen in a garage

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  • Piloted ignition times, critical heat fluxes and mass loss rates at reduced oxygen atmospheres

    Michael A. Delichatsios

  • Measurements of particle flame temperatures using three-color optical pyrometry

    Thomai Panagiotou;Yiannis Levendis;Michael Delichatsios

  • Flame height and lift-off of turbulent buoyant jet diffusion flames in a reduced pressure atmosphere

    Longhua Hu;Qiang Wang;Michael Delichatsios;Fei Tang

  • An experimental investigation and statistical characterization of intermittent flame ejecting behavior of enclosure fires with an opening

    Longhua Hu;Kaihua Lu;Michael Delichatsios;Linghui He

  • Flame radiation fraction behaviors of sooty buoyant turbulent jet diffusion flames in reduced- and normal atmospheric pressures and a global correlation with Reynolds number

    Longhua Hu;Qiang Wang;Michael Delichatsios;Shouxiang Lu

  • Heat fluxes on opposite building wall by flames emerging from an enclosure

    Yee-Ping Lee;Michael Delichatsios;Yoshifumi Ohmiya;Kaoru Wakatsuki

  • A Correlation for the Flame Height in "Group" Fires

    Michael A. Delichatsios

  • Axial temperature profile in vertical buoyant turbulent jet fire in a reduced pressure atmosphere

    LongHua Hu;Qiang Wang;Fei Tang;Michael Delichatsios

  • A new correlation for gas temperature inside a burning enclosure

    Michael A. Delichatsios;Yee-Ping Lee;Piotr Tofilo

  • Merging behavior of facade flames ejected from two windows of an under-ventilated compartment fire

    K Lu;L Hu;F Tang;Z Qiu

  • A Phenomenological Model for Smoke-Point and Soot Formation in Laminar Flames

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  • Mass pyrolysis rates and excess pyrolysate in fully developed enclosure fires

    Michael A. Delichatsios;Gordon W.H. Silcock;Xijuan Liu;Mary Delichatsios

  • Soot loading, temperature and size of single coal particle envelope flames in conventional- and oxy-combustion conditions (O2/N2 and O2/CO2)

    Reza Khatami;Yiannis A. Levendis;Michael A. Delichatsios

  • On the particle sizing of torrefied biomass for co-firing with pulverized coal

    Aidin Panahi;Mahmut Tarakcioglu;Martin Schiemann;Michael Delichatsios

  • Experimental and numerical study of the effects of nanoparticles on pyrolysis of a polyamide 6 (PA6) nanocomposite in the cone calorimeter

    Jianping Zhang;Michael A. Delichatsios;Serge Bourbigot

  • Determination of the convective heat transfer coefficient in three-dimensional inverse heat conduction problems

    Jianping Zhang;Michael Delichatsios

  • Fire spill plume from a compartment with dual symmetric openings under cross wind

    Wei Gao;Naian Liu;Michael Delichatsios;Xieshang Yuan

Frequent Co-Authors

Longhua Hu
Longhua Hu University of Science and Technology of China
Yiannis A. Levendis
Yiannis A. Levendis Northeastern University
Serge Bourbigot
Serge Bourbigot University of Lille
Dionisios G. Vlachos
Dionisios G. Vlachos University of Delaware
Jose L. Torero
Jose L. Torero University College London
Jean-Marc Franssen
Jean-Marc Franssen University of Liège
T. Richard Hull
T. Richard Hull University of Central Lancashire
Giovanni Camino
Giovanni Camino Polytechnic University of Turin
Meixian Li
Meixian Li Peking University
Pagona Papakonstantinou
Pagona Papakonstantinou University of Ulster

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