2026 Ravi Samtaney: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	31	3300	35	241	3758

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

3300

241

3758

Ravi Samtaney 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 Ravi Samtaney sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 659+

This scientist: 241 publications — 57th percentile

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

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

Ravi Samtaney 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 Ravi Samtaney sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

Direct numerical simulation of decaying compressible turbulence and shocklet statistics

Ravi Samtaney;D. I. Pullin;Branko Kosović

403
Citations
Formation of Plasmoid Chains in Magnetic Reconnection

R. Samtaney;N. F. Loureiro;D. A. Uzdensky;A. A. Schekochihin

267
Citations
Circulation deposition on shock-accelerated planar and curved density-stratified interfaces: Models and scaling laws

Ravi Samtaney;Norman J. Zabusky

258
Citations
Subgrid-scale modeling for large-eddy simulations of compressible turbulence

Unknown

139
Citations
Suppression of the Richtmyer–Meshkov instability in the presence of a magnetic field

Unknown

131
Citations
On initial-value and self-similar solutions of the compressible Euler equations

Ravindra Samtaney;D. I. Pullin

93
Citations
Discrete exterior calculus discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations over surface simplicial meshes

Unknown

83
Citations
Planar shock cylindrical focusing by a perfect-gas lens

P. E. Dimotakis;R. Samtaney

83
Citations
Large-eddy simulation of flow over a cylinder with from to : a skin-friction perspective

Wan Cheng;D. I. Pullin;Ravi Samtaney;W. Zhang

79
Citations
Stability of an impulsively accelerated density interface in magnetohydrodynamics.

V. Wheatley;D. I. Pullin;R. Samtaney

78
Citations
Baroclinic circulation generation on shock accelerated slow/fast gas interfaces

Ravi Samtaney;Jaideep Ray;Norman J. Zabusky

77
Citations
Geometrical effects on the airfoil flow separation and transition

Unknown

75
Citations
A direct numerical simulation investigation of the synthetic jet frequency effects on separation control of low-Re flow past an airfoil

Unknown

70
Citations
Scaling of a Fast Fourier Transform and a pseudo-spectral fluid solver up to 196608 cores

Unknown

64
Citations
Low-Re flow past an isolated cylinder with rounded corners

Unknown

58
Citations
BiGlobal linear stability analysis on low-Re flow past an airfoil at high angle of attack

Unknown

55
Citations
A fully implicit numerical method for single-fluid resistive magnetohydrodynamics

Unknown

55
Citations
The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in magnetohydrodynamics

Vincent Wheatley;R. Samtaney;D. I. Pullin

52
Citations
The transverse field Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in magnetohydrodynamics

V. Wheatley;R. Samtaney;D. I. Pullin;R. M. Gehre

50
Citations
Energy Spectra and Fluxes in Dissipation Range of Turbulent and Laminar Flows

Unknown

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

D. I. Pullin California Institute of Technology

Phillip Colella Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Alexander Schekochihin University of Oxford

David E. Keyes King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Scott Klasky Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Raul Radovitzky MIT

Kai Schneider Aix-Marseille University

Deborah Silver Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Leslie Greengard New York University

Achi Brandt Weizmann Institute of Science

External Links

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