2026 Saleem Asghar: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	56	745	638	3	3	229	9802
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	61	655	596	8	8	285	12184

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Pakistan Leader Award
1998 - Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences

Overview

Saleem Asghar is affiliated with COMSATS University Islamabad in Pakistan, focusing on Environmental Science with contributions across several subfields, including Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

Their research spans several main topics, notably:

Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
Microbial Metabolism and Applications
Arsenic contamination and mitigation
Plasma Applications and Diagnostics

Recent publications by Saleem Asghar include:

Optimization of Simultaneous Nutrients and Chemical Oxygen Demand Removal from Anaerobically Digested Liquid Dairy Manure in a Two-Step Fed Sequencing Batch Reactor System Using Taguchi Method and Grey Relational Analysis, 2023, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Leveraging molecular docking to understand Congo red degradation by Staphylococcus caprae MB400, 2023, Archives of Microbiology
Performance evaluation and optimization of simultaneous phosphorus and nitrogen removal from anaerobically digested liquid-dairy-manure using an intermittently-aerated-extended-idle sequencing batch reactor, 2023, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Mineralization of Rhodamine B dye in water using dielectric barrier plasma jet with process optimization, 2025, Results in Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

Lide Chen (2 publications)
Brian He (2 publications)
Zarrin Basharat (1 publication)
Azra Yasmin (1 publication)
Md. Mokter Hossain (1 publication)

Saleem Asghar has been recognized as a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences since 1998.

Best Publications

Stagnation-point flow of a nanofluid towards a stretching sheet

M. Mustafa;T. Hayat;T. Hayat;I. Pop;S. Asghar

394
Citations
Homotopy analysis of MHD flows of an Oldroyd 8-constant fluid

T. Hayat;M. Khan;S. Asghar

293
Citations
Comparison between the HAM and HPM solutions of thin film flows of non-Newtonian fluids on a moving belt

M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

259
Citations
Homotopy Perturbation Method and Axisymmetric Flow over a Stretching Sheet

P. D. Ariel;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

250
Citations
Hall effects on peristaltic flow of a Maxwell fluid in a porous medium

T. Hayat;N. Ali;S. Asghar

247
Citations
Effects of mass transfer on MHD flow of casson fluid with chemical reaction and suction

S. A. Shehzad;T. Hayat;M. Qasim;S. Asghar

245
Citations
Some simple flows of an Oldroyd-B fluid

T. Hayat;A.M. Siddiqui;S. Asghar

239
Citations
Effects of radiation and magnetic field on the mixed convection stagnation-point flow over a vertical stretching sheet in a porous medium

T. Hayat;Z. Abbas;I. Pop;S. Asghar

236
Citations
On the analytic solution of the steady flow of a fourth grade fluid

M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

223
Citations
The flow of an elastico-viscous fluid past a stretching sheet with partial slip

P. D. Ariel;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

216
Citations
The influence of thermal radiation on MHD flow of a second grade fluid

T. Hayat;Z. Abbas;M. Sajid;M. Sajid;S. Asghar

196
Citations
Slip effects on the peristaltic transport of MHD fluid with variable viscosity

N. Ali;Q. Hussain;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

190
Citations
Peristaltic transport of a third-order fluid in a circular cylindrical tube

T. Hayat;T. Hayat;Yongqi Wang;A. M. Siddiqui;K. Hutter

189
Citations
Flow of nanofluid past a Riga plate

Adeel Ahmad;Adeel Ahmad;Saleem Asghar;Saleem Asghar;Sumaira Afzal

189
Citations
On the MHD flow of a second grade fluid in a porous channel

T. Hayat;Naveed Ahmed;M. Sajid;S. Asghar

184
Citations
Exact solution for MHD flow of a generalized Oldroyd-B fluid with modified Darcy’s law

M. Khan;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

176
Citations
Periodic unidirectional flows of a viscoelastic fluid with the fractional Maxwell model

T Hayat;S Nadeem;S Asghar

173
Citations
Peristaltic transport of an Oldroyd-B fluid in a planar channel

Tasawar Hayat;Tasawar Hayat;Yongqi Wang;Kolumban Hutter;S. Asghar

145
Citations
Radiative effects in a three-dimensional flow of MHD Eyring-Powell fluid

T. Hayat;M. Awais;S. Asghar

143
Citations
Non-similar analytic solution for MHD flow and heat transfer in a third-order fluid over a stretching sheet

M. Sajid;M. Sajid;T. Hayat;S. Asghar

138
Citations
Unsteady flow with heat and mass transfer of a third grade fluid over a stretching surface in the presence of chemical reaction

T. Hayat;M. Mustafa;S. Asghar

135
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tasawar Hayat Quaid-i-Azam University

Asim Siddiqui Pennsylvania State University

Md. Anwar Hossain University of Dhaka

Muhammad Sajid International Islamic University, Islamabad

Rahmat Ellahi International Islamic University, Islamabad

Sohail Nadeem Quaid-i-Azam University

Masood Khan Quaid-i-Azam University

Bashir Ahmad King Abdulaziz University

Zaheer Abbas Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Kolumban Hutter ETH Zurich

External Links

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