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Mitchell D. Smooke

Mitchell D. Smooke

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
62
Citations
11190
World Ranking
624
National Ranking
277

Mitchell D. Smooke 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 Mitchell D. Smooke sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 199 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mitchell D. Smooke 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 Mitchell D. Smooke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for pioneering research on developing numerical and computational procedures to solve problems relating to chemically reacting flows especially flame structure
  • 2010 - SIAM Fellow For the development of new methods in computational combustion and their application to problems involving hydrocarbon chemistry.

Overview

Mitchell D. Smooke is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Chemical Engineering, with a particular focus on Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, and related subfields including Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The central topics of Smooke's work include Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Radiative Heat Transfer Studies, Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies, Combustion and Detonation Processes, Energetic Materials and Combustion, and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

Smooke has contributed to several recent research papers, including:

  • Experimental and numerical investigation of high-pressure nitromethane combustion (2021, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute)
  • A Combined Experimental and Computational Study of Soot Formation in Normal and Microgravity Conditions (2022, Combustion Science and Technology)
  • Constrained-temperature solutions of coflow laminar diffusion flames (2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Richard R. Dobbins, Marshall B. Long, Greg Derk, Eric Boyer, and Grant A. Risha.

Smooke's publications are often featured in venues such as Proceedings of the Combustion Institute and Combustion Science and Technology.

Among the recognitions received are the Fellow of the Combustion Institute awarded in 2018, acknowledging pioneering research on numerical and computational procedures related to chemically reacting flows and flame structure, and the SIAM Fellow distinction given in 2010 for developing new computational combustion methods and their applications to hydrocarbon chemistry problems.

Best Publications

  • Reduced Kinetic Mechanisms and Asymptotic Approximations for Methane-Air Flames: A Topical Volume

    Mitchell D. Smooke

  • Kinetic Modeling of the Oxidation of Ammonia in Flames

    James A. Miller;Mitchell D. Smooke;Robert M. Green;Robert J. Kee

  • Computational and experimental study of soot formation in a coflow, laminar diffusion flame

    M.D. Smooke;C.S. McEnally;L.D. Pfefferle;R.J. Hall

  • Soot formation in laminar diffusion flames

    M.D. Smooke;M.B. Long;B.C. Connelly;M.B. Colket

  • A comparison between numerical calculations and experimental measurements of the structure of a counterflow diffusion flame burning diluted methane in diluted air

    M.D. Smooke;I.K. Puri;K. Seshadri

  • An experimental and theoretical investigation of the dilution, pressure and flow-field effects on the extinction condition of methane-air-nitrogen diffusion flames

    H.K. Chelliah;C.K. Law;T. Ueda;M.D. Smooke

  • Solution of Burner-Stabilized Premixed Laminar Flames by Boundary Value Methods

    Mitchell D Smooke

  • Numerical Solution of Two-Dimensional Axisymmetric Laminar Diffusion Flames

    M. D. Smooke;R. E. Mitchell;D. E. Keyes

  • Extinction of Strained Premixed Laminar Flames With Complex Chemistry

    V. Giovangigli;M. D. Smooke

  • Experimental and computational study of CH, CH*, and OH* in an axisymmetric laminar diffusion flame

    K.T. Walsh;M.B. Long;M.A. Tanoff;M.D. Smooke

  • Soot and thin-filament pyrometry using a color digital camera

    Peter B. Kuhn;Bin Ma;Blair C. Connelly;Mitchell D. Smooke

  • Toward a comprehensive chemical kinetic mechanism for the oxidation of acetylene: Comparison of model predictions with results from flame and shock tube experiments

    James A. Miller;Reginald E. Mitchell;Mitchell D. Smooke;Robert J. Kee

  • Computational and experimental study of JP-8, a surrogate, and its components in counterflow diffusion flames

    James A. Cooke;Matteo Bellucci;Mitchell D. Smooke;Alessandro Gomez

  • Computational and experimental study of axisymmetric coflow partially premixed methane/air flames

    Beth Anne V Bennett;Charles S McEnally;Lisa D Pfefferle;Mitchell D Smooke

  • Calculation of the structure and extinction limit of a methane-air counterflow diffusion flame in the forward stagnation region of a porous cylinder

    G. Dixon-Lewis;T. David;P.H. Gaskell;S. Fukutani

  • A Comparison Between Numerical Calculations and Experimental Measurements of the Structure of a Counterflow Methane-Air Diffusion Flame

    I. K. Puri;K. Seshadri;M. D. Smooke;D. E. Keyes

  • Investigation of the transition from lightly sooting towards heavily sooting co-flow ethylene diffusion flames

    M D Smooke;R J Hall;M B Colket;J Fielding

  • A numerical investigation of extinction and ignition limits in laminar nonpremixed counterflowing hydrogen-air streams for both elementary and reduced chemistry

    G. Balakrishnan;M.D. Smooke;F.A. Williams

  • Adaptive continuation algorithms with application to combustion problems

    V. Giovangigli;V. Giovangigli;M. D. Smooke

  • A hybrid Newton/time-integration procedure for the solution of steady, laminar, one-dimensional, premixed flames

    Joseph F. Grcar;Robert J. Kee;Mitchell D. Smooke;James A. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall B. Long
Marshall B. Long Yale University
Alessandro Gomez
Alessandro Gomez Yale University
Richard A. Yetter
Richard A. Yetter Pennsylvania State University
Lisa D. Pfefferle
Lisa D. Pfefferle Yale University
Robert J. Kee
Robert J. Kee Colorado School of Mines
Robert W. Pitz
Robert W. Pitz Vanderbilt University
David E. Keyes
David E. Keyes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
James A. Miller
James A. Miller Argonne National Laboratory
Alexandre Ern
Alexandre Ern École des Ponts ParisTech
Herschel Rabitz
Herschel Rabitz Princeton University

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