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Mitchell D. Smooke

Mitchell D. Smooke

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 62 624 568 277 235 199 11190

Mitchell D. Smooke publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mitchell D. Smooke between 1982 and 2022, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mitchell D. Smooke published across 41 years, from 1982 to 2022, averaging 5.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 1991. 3 of the 208 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1982 to 2022. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 1991. 1982: 6 publications 1983: 3 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 6 publications 1986: 8 publications 1987: 12 publications 1988: 6 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 15 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 9 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 7 publications 1996: 10 publications 1997: 8 publications 1998: 7 publications 1999: 8 publications 2000: 7 publications 2001: 7 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 9 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 3 publications 2014: 0 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 1 publication 2018: 1 publication 2019: 0 publications 2020: 0 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 1 publication
1982 2022

208 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mitchell D. Smooke: publications per year, 1982 to 2022
Year Publications
1982 6
1983 3
1984 1
1985 6
1986 8
1987 12
1988 6
1989 5
1990 1
1991 15
1992 4
1993 9
1994 4
1995 7
1996 10
1997 8
1998 7
1999 8
2000 7
2001 7
2002 4
2003 3
2004 6
2005 7
2006 5
2007 6
2008 1
2009 9
2010 3
2011 7
2012 4
2013 3
2014 0
2015 8
2016 3
2017 1
2018 1
2019 0
2020 0
2021 2
2022 1
Total 208
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 197–206 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 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.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115 199
207–216 125
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 62 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 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.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44 62
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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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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