2026 Minping Wan: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	43	1728	1602	211	211	248	7005

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

732
Citations
Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence, and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas

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

388
Citations
The link between shocks, turbulence, and magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas

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

305
Citations
Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade.

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

229
Citations
Intermittent Dissipation at Kinetic Scales in Collisionless Plasma Turbulence

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

215
Citations
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

215
Citations
Intermittent heating in solar wind and kinetic simulations

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

187
Citations
Statistics of magnetic reconnection in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

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

175
Citations
Intermittency and local heating in the solar wind.

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

174
Citations
Intermittent Dissipation and Heating in 3D Kinetic Plasma Turbulence.

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

163
Citations
Physical mechanism of the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence : a numerical investigation

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

151
Citations
Magnetic reconnection as an element of turbulence

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

137
Citations
Anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence.

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

135
Citations
Intermittency, coherent structures and dissipation in plasma turbulence

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

112
Citations
Energy transfer channels and turbulence cascade in Vlasov-Maxwell turbulence

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

108
Citations
Kinetic energy transfer in compressible isotropic turbulence

Jianchun Wang;Minping Wan;Song Chen;Shiyi Chen

107
Citations
Pathways to Dissipation in Weakly Collisional Plasmas

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

100
Citations
Energy transfer, pressure tensor, and heating of kinetic plasma

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

99
Citations
Partial Variance of Increments Method in Solar Wind Observations and Plasma Simulations

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

98
Citations
Association of suprathermal particles with coherent structures and shocks

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

97
Citations
Artificial neural network mixed model for large eddy simulation of compressible isotropic turbulence

Chenyue Xie;Jianchun Wang;Hui Li;Minping Wan

94
Citations
Energy transfer, pressure tensor and heating of kinetic plasma

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

92
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Matthaeus University of Delaware

Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology

Gregory L. Eyink Johns Hopkins University

Lian-Ping Wang Southern University of Science and Technology

Justin C. Kasper University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Larry K.B. Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University

Bernd R. Noack Harbin Institute of Technology

Marco Velli University of California, Los Angeles

Sergio Dasso University of Buenos Aires

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