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D-Index
43
Citations
7005
World Ranking
1729
National Ranking
211

Minping Wan 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 Minping Wan sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 248 publications — 59th percentile

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

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

Minping Wan 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 Minping Wan sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Minping Wan is affiliated with Southern University of Science and Technology in China. Their research primarily lies within the field of Engineering, with significant contributions spanning several subfields including Computational Mechanics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of Minping Wan's work highlight a focus on fluid-related dynamics and phenomena, including:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies

Minping Wan has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • The Astrophysical Journal

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Minping Wan showcase a range of topics in plasma physics and turbulent flows. Selected publications include:

  • "Pathways to Dissipation in Weakly Collisional Plasmas," 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Pressure-Strain Interaction as the Energy Dissipation Estimate in Collisionless Plasma," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • "Effect of wall temperature on the kinetic energy transfer in a hypersonic turbulent boundary layer," 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Effects of compressibility and Atwood number on the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability," 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • "Compressibility effect in hypersonic boundary layer with isothermal wall condition," 2021, Physical Review Fluids

Throughout the research career, Minping Wan has collaborated frequently with key coauthors including Shiyi Chen, Hsu Chew Lee, Andrei N. Lipatnikov, Jianchun Wang, and Peng Dai. These collaborations reflect ongoing involvement in complex, interdisciplinary investigations within engineering and fluid mechanics.

Best Publications

  • A public turbulence database cluster and applications to study Lagrangian evolution of velocity increments in turbulence

    Yi Li;Eric Perlman;Minping Wan;Yunke Yang

  • Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence, and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas

    H. Karimabadi;V. Roytershteyn;M. Wan;W. H. Matthaeus

  • The link between shocks, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas

    H. Karimabadi;V. Roytershteyn;H.X. Vu;Y.A. Omelchenko

  • Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade.

    Shiyi Chen;Robert E. Ecke;Gregory L. Eyink;Gregory L. Eyink;Michael Rivera

  • Intermittent Dissipation at Kinetic Scales in Collisionless Plasma Turbulence

    M. Wan;W. H. Matthaeus;H. Karimabadi;V. Roytershteyn

  • Intermittency, nonlinear dynamics and dissipation in the solar wind and astrophysical plasmas.

    William H. Matthaeus;William H. Matthaeus;William H. Matthaeus;Minping Wan;Sergio Servidio;A. Greco

  • Intermittent heating in solar wind and kinetic simulations

    P. Wu;S. Perri;K. T. Osman;M. Wan

  • Statistics of magnetic reconnection in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    S. Servidio;W. H. Matthaeus;M. A. Shay;P. Dmitruk

  • Intermittency and local heating in the solar wind.

    K. T. Osman;K. T. Osman;W. H. Matthaeus;M. Wan;A. F. Rappazzo

  • Intermittent Dissipation and Heating in 3D Kinetic Plasma Turbulence.

    M. Wan;W. H. Matthaeus;V. Roytershteyn;H. Karimabadi

  • Physical mechanism of the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence : a numerical investigation

    Z. Xiao;M. Wan;S. Chen;G. L. Eyink

  • Magnetic reconnection as an element of turbulence

    S. Servidio;P. Dmitruk;A. Greco;M. Wan

  • Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence.

    S. Oughton;W. H. Matthaeus;M. Wan;K. T. Osman

  • Intermittency, coherent structures and dissipation in plasma turbulence

    M. Wan;W. H. Matthaeus;V. Roytershteyn;T. N. Parashar

  • Energy transfer channels and turbulence cascade in Vlasov-Maxwell turbulence

    Yan Yang;Yan Yang;W. H. Matthaeus;T. N. Parashar;P. Wu;P. Wu

  • Kinetic energy transfer in compressible isotropic turbulence

    Jianchun Wang;Minping Wan;Song Chen;Shiyi Chen

  • Pathways to Dissipation in Weakly Collisional Plasmas

    William H. Matthaeus;Yan Yang;Yan Yang;Minping Wan;Tulasi N. Parashar

  • Energy transfer, pressure tensor, and heating of kinetic plasma

    Yan Yang;Yan Yang;William H. Matthaeus;Tulasi N. Parashar;Colby C. Haggerty

  • Partial Variance of Increments Method in Solar Wind Observations and Plasma Simulations

    A. Greco;W.H. Matthaeus;S. Perri;K.T. Osman

  • Association of suprathermal particles with coherent structures and shocks

    J. A. Tessein;W. H. Matthaeus;M. Wan;K. T. Osman

  • Artificial neural network mixed model for large eddy simulation of compressible isotropic turbulence

    Chenyue Xie;Jianchun Wang;Hui Li;Minping Wan

  • Energy transfer, pressure tensor and heating of kinetic plasma

    Y. Yang;Y. Yang;W. H. Matthaeus;T. N. Parashar;C. C. Haggerty

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Matthaeus
William H. Matthaeus University of Delaware
Shiyi Chen
Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Gregory L. Eyink
Gregory L. Eyink Johns Hopkins University
Lian-Ping Wang
Lian-Ping Wang Southern University of Science and Technology
Justin C. Kasper
Justin C. Kasper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Larry K.B. Li
Larry K.B. Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Bernd R. Noack
Bernd R. Noack Harbin Institute of Technology
Marco Velli
Marco Velli University of California, Los Angeles
Sergio Dasso
Sergio Dasso University of Buenos Aires

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