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D-Index
43
Citations
7062
World Ranking
6196
National Ranking
16

Precious Sibanda publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Precious Sibanda sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 279 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Precious Sibanda D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Precious Sibanda sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Precious Sibanda is affiliated with the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and has a research focus primarily in the field of Engineering.

Their research spans several engineering subfields, including Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Numerical Analysis, and Modeling and Simulation.

Main topics covered by their work include:

  • Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Fractional Differential Equations Solutions
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Differential Equations and Numerical Methods
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media

Key publication venues where Precious Sibanda frequently publishes are:

  • Heat Transfer
  • International Journal of Ambient Energy
  • Journal of Nanofluids
  • Pramana
  • Engineering Reports

Recent papers include:

  • "Magnetohydrodynamic micropolar fluid flow in a porous medium with multiple slip conditions," 2020, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Thermodynamic effect in Darchy-Forchheimer nanofluid flow of a single-wall carbon nanotube/multi-wall carbon nanotube suspension due to a stretching/shrinking rotating disk: Buongiorno two-phase model," 2020, Journal of Engineering Mathematics
  • "MHD mixed convective nanofluid flow about a vertical slender cylinder using overlapping multi-domain spectral collocation approach," 2020, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
  • "Entropy generation optimisation for unsteady stagnation Casson nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet with binary chemical reaction and Arrhenius activation energy using the bivariate spectral quasi-linearisation method," 2021, International Journal of Ambient Energy
  • "A mathematical model for bioconvection flow with activation energy for chemical reaction and microbial activity," 2022, Pramana

Precious Sibanda has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Sicelo P. Goqo
  • S. S. Motsa
  • Hiranmoy Mondal
  • Sabyasachi Mondal
  • I. S. Oyelakin

Best Publications

  • Homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in a nanofluid flow due to a porous stretching sheet

    P.K. Kameswaran;S. Shaw;P. Sibanda;P.V.S.N. Murthy

  • Hydromagnetic nanofluid flow due to a stretching or shrinking sheet with viscous dissipation and chemical reaction effects

    P.K. Kameswaran;M. Narayana;P. Sibanda;P.V.S.N. Murthy

  • Unsteady Casson nanofluid flow over a stretching sheet with thermal radiation, convective and slip boundary conditions

    Ibukun Sarah Oyelakin;Sabyasachi Mondal;Precious Sibanda

  • A new spectral-homotopy analysis method for the MHD Jeffery-Hamel problem

    S.S. Motsa;P. Sibanda;F.G. Awad;S. Shateyi

  • A new spectral-homotopy analysis method for solving a nonlinear second order BVP

    S.S. Motsa;P. Sibanda;S. Shateyi

  • Activation energy and binary chemical reaction effects in mixed convective nanofluid flow with convective boundary conditions

    Mlamuli Dhlamini;Peri K. Kameswaran;Precious Sibanda;Sandile Sydney Motsa;Sandile Sydney Motsa

  • Entropy generation in a second grade magnetohydrodynamic nanofluid flow over a convectively heated stretching sheet with nonlinear thermal radiation and viscous dissipation

    Hloniphile Sithole;Hiranmoy Mondal;Precious Sibanda

  • Convection from an inverted cone in a porous medium with cross-diffusion effects

    F. G. Awad;P. Sibanda;S. S. Motsa;O. D. Makinde

  • The Effects of Thermal Radiation, Hall Currents, Soret, and Dufour on MHD Flow by Mixed Convection over a Vertical Surface in Porous Media

    Stanford Shateyi;Sandile Sydney Motsa;Precious Sibanda

  • On steady MHD flow and heat transfer past a rotating disk in a porous medium with ohmic heating and viscous dissipation

    P. Sibanda;Oluwole D Makinde

  • Magnetohydrodynamic Mixed-Convective Flow and Heat and Mass Transfer Past a Vertical Plate in a Porous Medium With Constant Wall Suction

    O. D. Makinde;P. Sibanda

  • Homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions in micropolar fluid flow from a permeable stretching or shrinking sheet in a porous medium

    Sachin Shaw;Peri K Kameswaran;Precious Sibanda

  • A bivariate Chebyshev spectral collocation quasilinearization method for nonlinear evolution parabolic equations.

    S. S. Motsa;V. M. Magagula;P. Sibanda

  • Effects of radiation on MHD free convection of a Casson fluid from a horizontal circular cylinder with partial slip in non-Darcy porous medium with viscous dissipation

    Gilbert Makanda;Sachin Shaw;Precious Sibanda

  • On unsteady MHD mixed convection in a nanofluid due to a stretching/shrinking surface with suction/injection using the spectral relaxation method

    Nageeb A Haroun;Precious Sibanda;Sabyasachi Mondal;Sandile S Motsa

  • A Novel Numerical Technique for Two-Dimensional Laminar Flow between Two Moving Porous Walls

    Zodwa G. Makukula;Precious Sibanda;Sandile S. Motsa

  • Non-linear thermal convection in a Casson fluid flow over a horizontal plate with convective boundary condition

    Sachin Shaw;Ganeswar Mahanta;Precious Sibanda

  • Laminar flow of a nanoliquid film over an unsteady stretching sheet

    Mahesha Narayana;Precious Sibanda

  • Unsteady Hydromagnetic Natural Convection Flow of a Dusty Fluid Past an Impulsively Moving Vertical Plate With Ramped Temperature in the Presence of Thermal Radiation

    R. Nandkeolyar;G. S. Seth;O. D. Makinde;P. Sibanda

  • On the linear stability analysis of a Maxwell fluid with double-diffusive convection

    F.G. Awad;P. Sibanda;Sandile S. Motsa

  • Dual solutions of Casson fluid flow over a stretching or shrinking sheet

    Peri K Kameswaran;S Shaw;P Sibanda

Frequent Co-Authors

Sachin Shaw
Sachin Shaw Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Oluwole Daniel Makinde
Oluwole Daniel Makinde Stellenbosch University
Dulal Pal
Dulal Pal Visva-Bharati University
Suman Chakraborty
Suman Chakraborty Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Ali J. Chamkha
Ali J. Chamkha Kuwait College of Science and Technology
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi Tongji University
Krishnendu Bhattacharyya
Krishnendu Bhattacharyya Banaras Hindu University

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