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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
37
Citations
6159
World Ranking
2368
National Ranking
853

Peter A. Gnoffo 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 Peter A. Gnoffo sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 169 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter A. Gnoffo 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 Peter A. Gnoffo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter A. Gnoffo is affiliated with Langley Research Center in the United States. Their professional profile does not include details on recent papers, co-authors, or frequent publication venues.

No recorded publications appear under their name, and there is no available information regarding involvement in book publications.

No specific fields or subfields of study are listed, nor are there main topics of work documented with regard to Peter A. Gnoffo's research activities.

There is no record of awards or formal recognitions associated with this scientist.

Due to limited publicly available data, their complete research scope and contributions remain unspecified beyond their institutional affiliation.

Best Publications

  • Conservation equations and physical models for hypersonic air flows in thermal and chemical nonequilibrium

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Roop N. Gupta;Judy L. Shinn

  • An upwind-biased, point-implicit relaxation algorithm for viscous, compressible perfect-gas flows

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Planetary-Entry Gas Dynamics

    Unknown

  • Multi-Component Diffusion With Application to Computational Aerothermodynamics

    Unknown

  • Upwind-biased, point-implicit relaxation strategies for viscous, hypersonic flows

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Computational Aerothermodynamic Design Issues for Hypersonic Vehicles

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;H. Harris Hamilton;David R. Olynick

  • Influence of sonic-line location on Mars Pathfinder Probe aerothermodynamics

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. J. Weilmuenster;Robert D. Braun;Christopher I. Cruz

  • Code calibration program in support of the Aeroassist Flight Experiment

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Wake Flow About the Mars Pathfinder Entry Vehicle

    R. A. Mitcheltree;P. A. Gnoffo

  • FIRE II calculations for hypersonic nonequilibrium aerothermodynamics code verification: DPLR, LAURA, and US3D

    David Hash;Joseph Olejniczak;Michael Wright;Dinesh Prabhu

  • Multiblock analysis for Shuttle Orbiter reentry heating from Mach 24 to Mach 12

    Peter A. Gnoffo;K. James Weilmuenster;Stephen J. Alter

  • Computational Aerothermodynamic Simulation Issues on Unstructured Grids

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Jeffery A. White

  • Mars Pathfinder six-degree-of-freedom entry analysis

    Robert D. Braun;Richard W. Powell;Walter C. Engelund;Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Prediction and Validation of Mars Pathfinder Hypersonic Aerodynamic Database

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Robert D. Braun;K. James Weilmuenster;Robert A. Mitcheltree

  • A finite-volume, adaptive grid algorithm applied to planetary entry flowfields

    P. A. Gnoffo

  • Enhancements to Program LAURA for computation of three-dimensional hypersonic flow

    Peter A. Gnoffo;Ronald S. Mccandless;H. C. Yee

  • Influence of Ablation on Radiative Heating for Earth Entry

    Christopher O. Johnston;Peter A. Gnoffo;Kenneth Sutton

  • Computation of laminar hypersonic compression-corner flows

    David H. Rudy;James L. Thomas;Ajay Kumar;Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Shock capturing for discontinuous Galerkin methods with application to predicting heat transfer in hypersonic flows

    Eric J. Ching;Yu Lv;Peter A. Gnoffo;Michael Barnhardt

  • CFD Validation Studies for Hypersonic Flow Prediction

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Wake flow about a MESUR Mars entry vehicle

    Robert Mitcheltree;Peter Gnoffo

  • Multi-Dimensional, Inviscid Flux Reconstruction for Simulation of Hypersonic Heating on Tetrahedral Grids

    Peter A. Gnoffo

  • Navier-Stokes simulations of Orbiter aerodynamic characteristics including pitch trim and bodyflap

    K. James Weilmuenster;Peter A. Gnoffo;Francis A. Greene

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher O. Johnston
Christopher O. Johnston Langley Research Center
Christopher L. Rumsey
Christopher L. Rumsey Langley Research Center
Robert D. Braun
Robert D. Braun University of Colorado Boulder
Brian R. Hollis
Brian R. Hollis Langley Research Center
Matthias Ihme
Matthias Ihme Stanford University
Graham V. Candler
Graham V. Candler University of Minnesota
Paul M. Danehy
Paul M. Danehy Langley Research Center
Mark H. Carpenter
Mark H. Carpenter Langley Research Center

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