2026 Nicholas Hutchins: 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	59	719	650	31	29	299	14108

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

1466
Citations
Large-scale amplitude modulation of the small-scale structures in turbulent boundary layers

Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

875
Citations
Large-scale influences in near-wall turbulence

Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

816
Citations
Predictive Model for Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flow

I. Marusic;R. Mathis;N. Hutchins

586
Citations
Hot-wire spatial resolution issues in wall-bounded turbulence

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

577
Citations
A comparison of turbulent pipe, channel and boundary layer flows

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

430
Citations
Towards Reconciling the Large-Scale Structure of Turbulent Boundary Layers in the Atmosphere and Laboratory

Nicholas Hutchins;Kapil Chauhan;Ivan Marusic;Jason Monty

323
Citations
Investigation of large-scale coherence in a turbulent boundary layer using two-point correlations

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

310
Citations
Predicting the Drag of Rough Surfaces

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

289
Citations
The turbulent/non-turbulent interface and entrainment in a boundary layer

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

258
Citations
High Reynolds number effects in wall turbulence

Ivan Marusic;Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins

253
Citations
A predictive inner-outer model for streamwise turbulence statistics in wall-bounded flows

Romain Mathis;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

247
Citations
Amplitude and frequency modulation in wall turbulence

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

229
Citations
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

225
Citations
Inclined cross-stream stereo particle image velocimetry measurements in turbulent boundary layers

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

225
Citations
Three-dimensional conditional structure of a high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layer

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

199
Citations
A fast direct numerical simulation method for characterising hydraulic roughness

Daniel Chung;Leon Chan;Michael MacDonald;Nicholas Hutchins

191
Citations
Large-scale spanwise periodicity in a turbulent boundary layer induced by highly ordered and directional surface roughness

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

189
Citations
Uniform momentum zones in turbulent boundary layers

Charitha M. de Silva;Nicholas Hutchins;Ivan Marusic

178
Citations
Amplitude modulation of all three velocity components in turbulent boundary layers

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

176
Citations
Estimating wall-shear-stress fluctuations given an outer region input

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

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Marusic University of Melbourne

Jason Monty University of Melbourne

Andrew Ooi University of Melbourne

Bharathram Ganapathisubramani University of Southampton

Michael P. Schultz United States Naval Academy

Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology

Alexander Smits Princeton University

Ramis Örlü OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University

Richard D. Sandberg University of Melbourne

Kwing-So Choi University of Nottingham

External Links

Personal website of Nicholas Hutchins Google Scholar page

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