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Perumal Nithiarasu

Perumal Nithiarasu

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
45
Citations
9998
World Ranking
1508
National Ranking
105

Perumal Nithiarasu 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 Perumal Nithiarasu sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 225 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Perumal Nithiarasu 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 Perumal Nithiarasu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Perumal Nithiarasu is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on engineering and medicine. Within these domains, their work prominently covers subfields such as computational mechanics, mechanical engineering, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and surgery.

The scientist has contributed extensively to various topics, including lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, heat transfer and optimization, model reduction and neural networks, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, coronary interventions and diagnostics, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, as well as advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Nithiarasu include Rainald Löhner, Charbel Farhat, Cedric Taylor, Nigel Weatherill, and Philip Gresho. These collaborations indicate a strong engagement with peers in numerical methods and computational mechanics.

Nithiarasu's research outputs are often published in specific scholarly venues. The most common publication sources include:

  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
  • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
  • Computational Thermal Sciences An International Journal
  • Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Among their recent papers are:

  • High performance, microarchitected, compact heat exchanger enabled by 3D printing, 2022, Applied Thermal Engineering
  • Towards enabling a cardiovascular digital twin for human systemic circulation using inverse analysis, 2020, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
  • Data-driven inverse modelling through neural network (deep learning) and computational heat transfer, 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Numerical evaluation of additively manufactured lattice architectures for heat sink applications, 2020, International Journal of Thermal Sciences
  • Stiff-PDEs and Physics-Informed Neural Networks, 2023, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Fluid Flow

    R. W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;K. N. Seetharamu

  • The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. L. Taylor;Perumal Nithiarasu

  • Natural convective heat transfer in a fluid saturated variable porosity medium

    P. Nithiarasu;K.N. Seetharamu;T. Sundararajan

  • A 1D arterial blood flow model incorporating ventricular pressure, aortic valve and regional coronary flow using the locally conservative Galerkin (LCG) method

    J. P. Mynard;P. Nithiarasu

  • An efficient artificial compressibility (AC) scheme based on the characteristic based split (CBS) method for incompressible flows

    Perumal Nithiarasu

  • High performance, microarchitected, compact heat exchanger enabled by 3D printing

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  • A benchmark study of numerical schemes for one‐dimensional arterial blood flow modelling

    Etienne Boileau;Perumal Nithiarasu;Pablo J. Blanco;Pablo J. Blanco;Lucas O. Müller;Lucas O. Müller

  • The characteristic-based-split procedure: an efficient and accurate algorithm for fluid problems

    O.C. Zienkiewicz;P Nithiarasu;Ramon Codina;M. Vázquez

  • The Characteristic-Based Split (CBS) scheme : a unified approach to fluid dynamics

    P Nithiarasu;Ramon Codina;O.C. Zienkiewicz

  • Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heat and Mass Transfer

    Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N Seetharamu;Roland W Lewis

  • An improved unsteady, unstructured, artificial compressibility, finite volume scheme for viscous incompressible flows: Part I. Theory and implementation

    A. G. Malan;R. W. Lewis;P. Nithiarasu

  • The Finite Element Method

    Roland W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

  • DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE NATURAL CONVECTION IN AN ENCLOSURE FILLED WITH FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIUM: A GENERALIZED NON-DARCY APPROACH

    P. Nithiarasu;K. N. Seetharamu;T. Sundararajan

  • Characteristic‐based‐split (CBS) algorithm for incompressible flow problems with heat transfer

    N. Massarotti;P. Nithiarasu;O.C. Zienkiewicz

  • Towards enabling a cardiovascular digital twin for human systemic circulation using inverse analysis

    Neeraj Kavan Chakshu;Igor Sazonov;Perumal Nithiarasu

  • Experimental investigation of the performance of a counter-flow, packed-bed mechanical cooling tower

    S.V Bedekar;P Nithiarasu;K.N Seetharamu

  • Three‐dimensional incompressible flow calculations using the characteristic based split (CBS) scheme

    P. Nithiarasu;J. S. Mathur;N. P. Weatherill;K. Morgan

  • An arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) formulation for free surface flows using the characteristic‐based split (CBS) scheme

    P. Nithiarasu

  • A new semi-implicit time stepping procedure for buoyancy driven flow in a fluid saturated porous medium

    Perumal Nithiarasu;Kanagaraj Ravindran

  • Explicit and semi-implicit CBS procedures for incompressible viscous flows

    N. Massarotti;F. Arpino;R. W. Lewis;P. Nithiarasu

  • Analysis of an explicit and matrix free fractional step method for incompressible flows

    Perumal Nithiarasu;Olgierd Zienkiewicz

  • Convection Heat Transfer

    Roland W. Lewis;Perumal Nithiarasu;Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu
Kankanhalli N. Seetharamu Universiti Sains Malaysia
Roland W. Lewis
Roland W. Lewis Swansea University
O.C. Zienkiewicz
O.C. Zienkiewicz Swansea University
Thirumalachari Sundararajan
Thirumalachari Sundararajan Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Paul G. Tucker
Paul G. Tucker University of Cambridge
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan Swansea University
Ramon Codina
Ramon Codina Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Farshid Guilak
Farshid Guilak Washington University in St. Louis
Leslie M. Loew
Leslie M. Loew University of Connecticut
Mark I. Rees
Mark I. Rees Swansea University

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