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P. Henrik Alfredsson

P. Henrik Alfredsson

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
50
Citations
9985
World Ranking
1170
National Ranking
8

P. Henrik Alfredsson 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 P. Henrik Alfredsson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 233 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

P. Henrik Alfredsson 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 P. Henrik Alfredsson sits on this spectrum.

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: 50 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of innovative, creative and rigorous experimental methods leading to seminal contributions to our understanding of instabilities, transitional and turbulent flows

Overview

P. Henrik Alfredsson is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with a specialization in computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, and mechanical engineering. The work also touches on global and planetary change as well as ocean engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, fluid dynamics and vibration analysis, and heat transfer mechanisms. Further areas of study include aerodynamics and fluid dynamics research, aerodynamics and acoustics in jet flows, combustion and flame dynamics, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Alfredsson include the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, and Experiments in Fluids.

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Experiments in Fluids

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfredsson are:

  • Flows Over Rotating Disks and Cones, 2023, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Instability and transition in the boundary layer driven by a rotating slender cone, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Linear modes in a planar turbulent jet, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Flow visualization and skin friction determination in transitional channel flow, 2021, Experiments in Fluids

Alfredsson collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Antonio Segalini, K. Katō, R. J. Lingwood, Masaharu MATSUBARA, and Sattaya Yimprasert.

  • Antonio Segalini
  • K. Katō
  • R. J. Lingwood
  • Masaharu MATSUBARA
  • Sattaya Yimprasert

In 2012, Alfredsson was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation recognizing their development of innovative and rigorous experimental methods that contribute to the understanding of instabilities, transitional, and turbulent flows.

Best Publications

  • Disturbance growth in boundary layers subjected to free-stream turbulence

    M. Matsubara;P. H. Alfredsson

  • Experiments in a boundary layer subjected to free stream turbulence. Part 1. Boundary layer structure and receptivity

    K. J. A. Westin;A. V. Boiko;B. G. B. Klingmann;V. V. Kozlov

  • Experiments on transition in plane Couette flow

    Nils Tillmark;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • An Experimental Study of the Near-Field Mixing Characteristics of a Swirling Jet

    Ramis Örlü;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • The fluctuating wall‐shear stress and the velocity field in the viscous sublayer

    P. Henrik Alfredsson;Arne V. Johansson;Joseph H. Haritonidis;Helmut Eckelmann

  • On the structure of turbulent channel flow

    Arne V. Johansson;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • Turbulent boundary layers up to Reθ=2500 studied through simulation and experiment

    P. Schlatter;R. Örlü;Q. Li;G. Brethouwer

  • Fluid Mechanics of Papermaking

    Fredrik Lundell;L. Daniel Söderberg;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • An investigation of turbulent plane Couette flow at low Reynolds numbers

    Knut H. Bech;Nils Tillmark;P. Henrik Alfredsson;Helge I. Andersson

  • Transition induced by free-stream turbulence

    Jens H.M. Fransson;Masaharu Matsubara;P.H. Alfredsson

  • Pressure statistics and their scaling in high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layers

    Y. Tsuji;J. H. M. Fransson;P. H. Alfredsson;A. V. Johansson

  • Evolution and dynamics of shear-layer structures in near-wall turbulence

    Arne V. Johansson;P. H. Alfredsson;John Kim

  • Experiments in a boundary layer subjected to free stream turbulence. Part 2. The role of TS-waves in the transition process

    A. V. Boiko;K. J. A. Westin;B. G. B. Klingmann;V. V. Kozlov

  • Effects of imperfect spatial resolution on measurements of wall-bounded turbulentbx shear flows

    Arne V. Johansson;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • A new scaling for the streamwise turbulence intensity in wall-bounded turbulent flows and what it tells us about the ``outer'' peak

    P. Henrik Alfredsson;Antonio Segalini;Ramis Örlü

  • On the detection of turbulence-generating events

    P. Henrik Alfredsson;Arne V. Johansson

  • On near wall measurements of wall bounded flows-The necessity of an accurate determination of the wall position

    Ramis Örlü;Jens H.M. Fransson;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • Instabilities in channel flow with system rotation

    P. Henrik Alfredsson;Håkan Persson

  • Turbulent Flows in Curved Pipes: Recent Advances in Experiments and Simulations

    Athanasia Kalpakli Vester;Ramis Örlü;P. Henrik Alfredsson

  • Experiments on the stability of Tollmien-Schlichting waves

    B. G. B. Klingmann;A. V. Boiko;K. J. A. Westin;V. V. Kozlov

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramis Örlü
Ramis Örlü OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
Arne V. Johansson
Arne V. Johansson Royal Institute of Technology
Philipp Schlatter
Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology
Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
Joseph Klewicki
Joseph Klewicki University of Melbourne
John Kim
John Kim University of California, Los Angeles
Ian P. Castro
Ian P. Castro University of Southampton
Peter A. Monkewitz
Peter A. Monkewitz École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Hassan M. Nagib
Hassan M. Nagib Illinois Institute of Technology
Carlo Massimo Casciola
Carlo Massimo Casciola Sapienza University of Rome

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