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Australia
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
27126
World Ranking
170
National Ranking
5

Physics

D-Index
83
Citations
27168
World Ranking
2766
National Ranking
70

R. A. Antonia 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 R. A. Antonia sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 604 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

R. A. Antonia 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 R. A. Antonia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% 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 Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Australia Leader Award
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

R. A. Antonia is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia and has contributed extensively in the fields of Engineering and Environmental Science. Their research focuses primarily on areas related to Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, supported by a significant body of work in Wind and Air Flow Studies as well as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

The scientist's research activity includes substantial work in several subfields such as Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Aerospace Engineering.

Key topics covered in their publications include:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows

Antonia has published numerous papers in respected venues, predominantly in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Physics of Fluids, with additional publications in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, and European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids.

Recent papers include:

  • Scaling of the turbulent energy dissipation correlation function, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Similarity for dissipation-scaled wall turbulence, 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Relationship between coherent Reynolds shear stress and large-scale vortical structures, 2023, Physics of Fluids
  • Assessment of large-scale forcing in isotropic turbulence using a closed Kármán-Howarth equation, 2020, Physics of Fluids
  • Approach to the 4/3 law for turbulent pipe and channel flows examined through a reformulated scale-by-scale energy budget, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

The list of frequent co-authors includes:

  • L. Djenidi
  • S. L. Tang
  • J. G. Chen
  • Md. Kamruzzaman
  • Tongming Zhou

Antonia was recognized as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. This acknowledgment situates them among notable contributors to the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Rough-Wall Turbulent Boundary Layers

    M. R. Raupach;R. A. Antonia;S. Rajagopalan

  • THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF SMALL-SCALE TURBULENCE

    Katepalli R. Sreenivasan;R. A. Antonia

  • High-order velocity structure functions in turbulent shear flows

    F. Anselmet;Y. Gagne;E. J. Hopfinger;R. A. Antonia

  • Comparison between rough- and smooth-wall turbulent boundary layers

    P.-å. Krogstad;R. A. Antonia;L. W. B. Browne

  • Surface roughness effects in turbulent boundary layers

    P.-Å. Krogstadt;R.A. Antonia

  • The response of a turbulent boundary layer to a step change in surface roughness Part 1. Smooth to rough

    R. A. Antonia;R. E. Luxton

  • Direct numerical simulations of turbulent channel flow with transverse square bars on one wall

    S. Leonardi;P. Orlandi;R. J. Smalley;L. Djenidi

  • Conditional Sampling in Turbulence Measurement

    R. A. Antonia

  • Effect of different initial conditions on a turbulent round free jet

    G. Xu;R. A. Antonia

  • Low-Reynolds-number effects in a fully developed turbulent channel flow

    R. A. Antonia;M. Teitel;J. Kim;L. W. B. Browne

  • Structure of turbulent boundary layers on smooth and rough walls

    P.-Å. Krogstad;R. A. Antonia

  • Temperature structure functions in turbulent shear flows

    R. A. Antonia;E. J. Hopfinger;Y. Gagne;F. Anselmet

  • Reynolds number dependence of skewness and flatness factors of turbulent velocity derivatives

    C. W. Van Atta;R. A. Antonia

  • CONDITIONALLY SAMPLED MEASUREMENTS IN A HEATED TURBULENT JET

    R. A. Antonia;A. Prabhu;S. E. Stephenson

  • Some characteristics of small-scale turbulence in a turbulent duct flow

    R. A. Antonia;J. Kim;L. W. B. Browne

  • Measurements of dissipation rate and some other characteristics of turbulent plane and circular jets

    R. A. Antonia;B. R. Satyaprakash;A. K. M. F. Hussain

  • Effects of initial conditions in decaying turbulence generated by passive grids

    P. Lavoie;L. Djenidi;R. A. Antonia

  • Turbulence structure in boundary layers over different types of surface roughness

    R A Antonia;P A Krogstad

  • Spatial resolution of PIV for the measurement of turbulence

    P. Lavoie;G. Avallone;F. De Gregorio;G. P. Romano

  • The turbulent boundary layer over transverse square cavities

    L. Djenidi;R. Elavarasan;R. A. Antonia

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabien Anselmet
Fabien Anselmet Aix-Marseille University
Tongming Zhou
Tongming Zhou University of Western Australia
Paolo Orlandi
Paolo Orlandi Sapienza University of Rome
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan New York University
Stefano Leonardi
Stefano Leonardi Sapienza University of Rome
Jianchun Mi
Jianchun Mi Peking University
John Kim
John Kim University of California, Los Angeles
Sutanu Sarkar
Sutanu Sarkar University of California, San Diego
Amit Agrawal
Amit Agrawal Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Arif Hussain
Arif Hussain University College Dublin

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