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D-Index
59
Citations
14108
World Ranking
720
National Ranking
31

Nicholas Hutchins 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 Nicholas Hutchins sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 299 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nicholas Hutchins 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 Nicholas Hutchins sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% 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 American Physical Society (APS) Citation For elegant experiments that have advanced understanding of the structure and dragcausing mechanisms of wallbounded turbulent flows

Overview

Nicholas Hutchins is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has extensively contributed to the fields of engineering and environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, with a substantial volume of work also addressing wind and air flow studies, plant water relations, and carbon dynamics.

The scientist's work is represented in several subfields related to their core expertise. These include computational mechanics, environmental engineering, ocean engineering, global and planetary change, and mechanical engineering.

Nicholas Hutchins' recent research papers cover various specialized topics and are published in respected scientific journals. Notable publications include:

  • "Predicting the Drag of Rough Surfaces" (2021), Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "The effect of spanwise wavelength of surface heterogeneity on turbulent secondary flows" (2020), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Dispersive stresses in turbulent flow over riblets" (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Influence of riblet shapes on the occurrence of Kelvin-Helmholtz rollers" (2021), Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Impact of spanwise effective slope upon rough-wall turbulent channel flow" (2022), Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Their frequent co-authors encompass a number of researchers with whom they have collaborated multiple times, including Daniel Chung, Ivan Maruŝiĉ, Wagih Abu Rowin, Jason Monty, and Bagus Nugroho.

The publication venues where Nicholas Hutchins has disseminated their work most frequently are:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Experiments in Fluids
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference
  • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow

Their main topics of investigation integrate a wide range of interests such as fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, wind and air flow studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, particle dynamics in fluid flows, heat transfer mechanisms, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, and fluid dynamics and vibration analysis.

In 2020, Nicholas Hutchins was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation acknowledging elegant experiments that advanced the understanding of the structure and drag-causing mechanisms of wall-bounded turbulent flows.

Best Publications

  • Evidence of very long meandering features in the logarithmic region of turbulent boundary layers

    N. Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

  • Large-scale amplitude modulation of the small-scale structures in turbulent boundary layers

    Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

  • Large-scale influences in near-wall turbulence

    Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

  • Predictive Model for Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flow

    I. Marusic;R. Mathis;N. Hutchins

  • Hot-wire spatial resolution issues in wall-bounded turbulence

    N. Hutchins;T. B. Nickels;I. Marusic;M. S. Chong

  • A comparison of turbulent pipe, channel and boundary layer flows

    J. P. Monty;N. Hutchins;H. C. H. Ng;I. Marusic

  • Towards Reconciling the Large-Scale Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers in the Atmosphere and Laboratory

    Nicholas Hutchins;Kapil Chauhan;Ivan Marusic;Jason Monty

  • Investigation of large-scale coherence in a turbulent boundary layer using two-point correlations

    B. Ganapathisubramani;N. Hutchins;W. T. Hambleton;E. K. Longmire

  • Predicting the Drag of Rough Surfaces

    Daniel Chung;Nicholas Hutchins;Michael P. Schultz;Karen A. Flack

  • The turbulent/non-turbulent interface and entrainment in a boundary layer

    Kapil Chauhan;Jimmy Philip;Charitha M. de Silva;Nicholas Hutchins

  • High Reynolds number effects in wall turbulence

    Ivan Marusic;Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins

  • A predictive inner-outer model for streamwise turbulence statistics in wall-bounded flows

    Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

  • Amplitude and frequency modulation in wall turbulence

    B. Ganapathisubramani;N. Hutchins;J. P. Monty;D. Chung

  • A systematic investigation of roughness height and wavelength in turbulent pipe flow in the transitionally rough regime

    Leon Zen Hsien Chan;M. Macdonald;D. Chung;N. Hutchins

  • Inclined cross-stream stereo particle image velocimetry measurements in turbulent boundary layers

    N. Hutchins;W. T. Hambleton;Ivan Marusic

  • Three-dimensional conditional structure of a high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layer

    N. Hutchins;J. P. Monty;B. Ganapathisubramani;H. C. H. Ng

  • A fast direct numerical simulation method for characterising hydraulic roughness

    Daniel Chung;Leon Chan;Michael MacDonald;Nicholas Hutchins

  • Large-scale spanwise periodicity in a turbulent boundary layer induced by highly ordered and directional surface roughness

    B. Nugroho;N. Hutchins;J.P. Monty

  • Uniform momentum zones in turbulent boundary layers

    Charitha M. de Silva;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

  • Amplitude modulation of all three velocity components in turbulent boundary layers

    K. M. Talluru;R. Baidya;N. Hutchins;I. Marusic

  • Estimating wall-shear-stress fluctuations given an outer region input

    Romain Mathis;Ivan Marusic;Sergei I. Chernyshenko;Nicholas Hutchins

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Marusic
Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne
Jason Monty
Jason Monty University of Melbourne
Daniel Chung
Daniel Chung University of Melbourne
Andrew Ooi
Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani University of Southampton
Joseph Klewicki
Joseph Klewicki University of Melbourne
Michael P. Schultz
Michael P. Schultz United States Naval Academy
Alexander Smits
Alexander Smits Princeton University
Philipp Schlatter
Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology
Ramis Örlü
Ramis Örlü OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

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