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D-Index
41
Citations
6093
World Ranking
1936
National Ranking
55

Rachid Bennacer 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 Rachid Bennacer sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 355 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rachid Bennacer 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 Rachid Bennacer 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: 41 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rachid Bennacer is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with specific contributions in mechanical engineering, computational mechanics, building and construction, biomedical engineering, and environmental engineering.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications exploring topics such as nanofluid flow and heat transfer, building energy and comfort optimization, urban heat island mitigation, hygrothermal properties of building materials, lattice Boltzmann simulation studies, heat transfer and optimization, and fluid dynamics and turbulent flows.

Rachid Bennacer has published frequently in several scientific venues. Among the most common are MATEC Web of Conferences, SSRN Electronic Journal, Construction and Building Materials, Fluid dynamics & materials processing, and Building and Environment.

Their recent papers are as follows:

  • Experimental investigation on the hygrothermal behavior of a new multilayer building envelope integrating PCM with bio-based material, 2021, Building and Environment
  • Thermal performance analysis of 28 PVT solar domestic hot water installations in Western Europe, 2020, Renewable Energy
  • Experimental study on moisture kinetics and microstructure evolution in apples during high power microwave drying process, 2020, Journal of Food Engineering
  • Dynamic integration of phase change material in walls for enhancing building thermal performance-A novel self-adaptive method for moving PCM layer, 2024, Energy Conversion and Management
  • Multilayer assembly of phase change material and bio-based concrete: A passive envelope to improve the energy and hygrothermal performance of buildings, 2022, Energy Conversion and Management

Their frequent collaborators include Mohammed El Ganaoui, Mourad Rahim, Dongxia Wu, Abdelatif Merabtine, and Panagiotis E. Theodorakis.

Best Publications

  • Use of iron and steel industry by-product (GGBS) in cement paste and mortar

    Rafat Siddique;Rachid Bennacer

  • Strength, durability, and micro-structural properties of concrete made with used-foundry sand (UFS)

    Rafat Siddique;Yogesh Aggarwal;Paratibha Aggarwal;El-Hadj Kadri

  • Lattice Boltzmann simulation of natural convection in an open ended cavity

    A.A. Mohamad;M. El-Ganaoui;R. Bennacer

  • Nanofluids droplets evaporation kinetics and wetting dynamics on rough heated substrates.

    Khellil Sefiane;R. Bennacer

  • Simulation of an adsorption solar cooling system

    H.Z. Hassan;A.A. Mohamad;R. Bennacer

  • The mini-conical slump flow test: Analysis and numerical study

    Adrien Bouvet;Elhem Ghorbel;Rachid Bennacer

  • Effect of polyester fibres on the compressive strength and abrasion resistance of HVFA concrete

    Rafat Siddique;Kushal Kapoor;El-Hadj Kadri;Rachid Bennacer

  • Vortices, dissipation and flow transition in volatile binary drops

    R. Bennacer;Khellil Sefiane

  • Double diffusive convection in a vertical enclosure filled with anisotropic porous media

    Rachid Bennacer;Abdelwahab Tobbal;Hassen Beji;Patrick Vasseur

  • Use of tribometer to estimate interface friction and concrete boundary layer composition during the fluid concrete pumping

    T.T. Ngo;E.H. Kadri;R. Bennacer;F. Cussigh

  • An expression for droplet evaporation incorporating thermal effects

    Khellil Sefiane;R. Bennacer

  • Cooperating thermosolutal convection in enclosures—II. Heat transfer and flow structure

    D. Gobin;R. Bennacer

  • Cooperating thermosolutal convection in enclosures—I. Scale analysis and mass transfer

    R. Bennacer;D. Gobin

  • Double diffusive convection in a vertical enclosure inserted with two saturated porous layers confining a fluid layer

    R. Bennacer;H. Beji;A.A. Mohamad

  • Double diffusion in a vertical fluid layer: Onset of the convective regime

    D. Gobin;R. Bennacer

  • Experimental investigation on the hygrothermal behavior of a new multilayer building envelope integrating PCM with bio-based material

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  • Thermal parameter identification of simplified building model with electric appliance

    Herie Park;Marie Ruellan;Adrien Bouvet;Eric Monmasson

  • Effects of Dufour and Soret mechanisms on MHD mixed convective-radiative non-Newtonian liquid flow and heat transfer over a porous sheet

    U.S. Mahabaleshwar;K.R. Nagaraju;P.N. Vinay Kumar;M.N. Nadagouda

  • Double diffusion, natural convection in an enclosure filled with saturated porous medium subjected to cross gradients; stably stratified fluid

    A.A. Mohamad;R. Bennacer

  • Transient natural convection in an enclosure with horizontal temperature and vertical solutal gradients

    Rachid Bennacer;Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad;Dalila Akrour

  • Lattice Boltzmann method for melting/solidification problems

    El Alami Semma;Mohammed El Ganaoui;Rachid Bennacer

Frequent Co-Authors

Khellil Sefiane
Khellil Sefiane University of Edinburgh
Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad
Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad University of Calgary
Eric Monmasson
Eric Monmasson CY Cergy Paris University
Jean-Michel Nunzi
Jean-Michel Nunzi Queen's University
Rafat Siddique
Rafat Siddique Thapar University
Shengqiang Shen
Shengqiang Shen Dalian University of Technology
Muhammad Sajid
Muhammad Sajid International Islamic University, Islamabad
Richard K.K. Yuen
Richard K.K. Yuen City University of Hong Kong
Pierre Fauchais
Pierre Fauchais University of Limoges
Ali Cemal Benim
Ali Cemal Benim Hochschule Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences

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