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D-Index
38
Citations
5148
World Ranking
2296
National Ranking
831

Satish Kumar 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 Satish Kumar sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 223 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Satish Kumar 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 Satish Kumar 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: 38 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% 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 Business and Management in Malaysia Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to interfacial and nonNewtonian fluid mechanics and for exemplary leadership in the engineering science of liquidapplied coating and printing processes

Overview

Satish Kumar is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has a research profile focused primarily on Engineering and Materials Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Computational Mechanics, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The research topics frequently addressed by Kumar cover areas such as Fluid Dynamics and Thin Films, Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kumar are:

  • Machine learning holography for 3D particle field imaging (2020) published in Optics Express
  • Understanding viscoelastic flow instabilities: Oldroyd-B and beyond (2022) published in Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Capillary flow of liquids in open microchannels: overview and recent advances (2021) published in npj Microgravity
  • Droplet evaporation on inclined substrates (2021) published in Physical Review Fluids
  • Capillary-flow dynamics in open rectangular microchannels (2021) published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Kumar has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Cari S. Dutcher, Vasileios Charitatos, Lorraine F. Francis, Patrick J. McCauley, and Michelle A. Calabrese, each having co-authored at least five publications with Kumar.

The venues where Kumar's work commonly appears reflect a strong emphasis on fluid mechanics and materials science, such as Physical Review Fluids, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter, Langmuir, and Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. Publications in these venues range from studies on fluid dynamics and coating processes to advanced material characterization.

In recognition of their contributions, Kumar has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015 for work related to interfacial and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and leadership in engineering science applied to liquid-applied coatings and printing processes. Additionally, Kumar holds fellowships from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018).

Best Publications

  • Lubrication flow between a cavity and a flexible wall

    Xiuyan Yin;Satish Kumar

  • Liquid Transfer in Printing Processes: Liquid Bridges with Moving Contact Lines

    Satish Kumar

  • Meltblown fibers: Influence of viscosity and elasticity on diameter distribution

    Dawud H. Tan;Chunfeng Zhou;Christopher John Ellison;Satish Kumar

  • Brownian dynamics simulations of flexible polymers with spring-spring repulsions

    Satish Kumar;Ronald G. Larson

  • Flow visualization of the liquid emptying process in scaled-up gravure grooves and cells

    Xiuyan Yin;Satish Kumar

  • Stretching and slipping of liquid bridges near plates and cavities

    Shawn Dodds;Marcio da Silveira Carvalho;Satish Kumar

  • AC electrohydrodynamic instabilities in thin liquid films

    Scott A. Roberts;Satish Kumar

  • Predicting the effect of membrane spacers on mass transfer

    Abhishek Shrivastava;Satish Kumar;Edward L Cussler

  • On the Faraday instability in a surfactant-covered liquid

    Satish Kumar;Omar K. Matar

  • Drying of droplets of colloidal suspensions on rough substrates

    Truong Pham;Satish Kumar

  • Stretching liquid bridges with moving contact lines: The role of inertia

    Shawn Dodds;Marcio Carvalho;Satish Kumar

  • Nonmodal amplification of stochastic disturbances in strongly elastic channel flows

    Mihailo R. Jovanović;Satish Kumar

  • Energy amplification in channel flows of viscoelastic fluids

    Nazish Hoda;Mihailo R. Jovanović;Satish Kumar

  • Instability of creeping Couette flow past a neo-hookean solid

    Vasileios Gkanis;Satish Kumar

  • Droplet spreading and absorption on rough, permeable substrates

    Leonardo Espin;Satish Kumar

  • Transient growth without inertia

    Mihailo R. Jovanović;Satish Kumar

  • Influence of Laval nozzles on the air flow field in melt blowing apparatus

    Dawud H. Tan;Peter K. Herman;Arun Janakiraman;Frank S. Bates

  • The dynamics of three-dimensional liquid bridges with pinned and moving contact lines

    Shawn Dodds;Marcio S. Carvalho;Satish Kumar

  • Mechanistic principles of colloidal crystal growth by evaporation-induced convective steering.

    Damien D. Brewer;Joshua Allen;Michael R. Miller;Juan M De Santos

  • Experimental characterization of viscoelastic effects on two- and three-dimensional shear instabilities

    Olivier Cadot;Satish Kumar

  • Inverse Leidenfrost Effect: Levitating Drops on Liquid Nitrogen.

    M. Adda-Bedia;S. Kumar;F. Lechenault;S. Moulinet

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihailo R. Jovanovic
Mihailo R. Jovanovic University of Southern California
Omar Matar
Omar Matar Imperial College London
Lorraine F. Francis
Lorraine F. Francis University of Minnesota
Kevin D. Dorfman
Kevin D. Dorfman University of Minnesota
Richard V. Craster
Richard V. Craster Imperial College London
Michael Tsapatsis
Michael Tsapatsis Johns Hopkins University
Christopher W. Macosko
Christopher W. Macosko University of Minnesota
Frank S. Bates
Frank S. Bates University of Minnesota
Edward L Cussler
Edward L Cussler University of Minnesota
Erik K. Hobbie
Erik K. Hobbie North Dakota State University

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