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Sébastien Candel

Sébastien Candel

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
France
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
83
Citations
26500
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
2

Sébastien Candel 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 Sébastien Candel sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 367 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sébastien Candel 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 Sébastien Candel 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 France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for seminal research on turbulent flames, combustion instabilities, and active control
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For significant contributions to solving multidisciplinary problems in the fields of combustion, fluid mechanics, aeroacoustics, and propulsion.

Overview

Sébastien Candel is affiliated with CentraleSupélec in France and is recognized for research primarily in the fields of engineering and chemical engineering. Their work spans several subfields including computational mechanics, fluid flow and transfer processes, aerospace engineering, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and mechanical engineering.

The main topics of Sébastien Candel's research include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Rocket and propulsion systems research
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Coal Combustion and Slurry Processing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sébastien Candel are:

  • Antoine Renaud
  • Guillaume Vignat
  • Daniel Durox
  • Preethi Rajendram Soundararajan
  • Véranika Latour

Publication venues commonly featuring Sébastien Candel's research include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Combustion and Flame
  • Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sébastien Candel include:

  • "Dynamics and control of premixed combustion systems based on flame transfer and describing functions," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "The suitability of different swirl number definitions for describing swirl flows: Accurate, common and (over-) simplified formulations," 2021, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science
  • "Improvement of lean blow out performance of spray and premixed swirled flames using nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges," 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • "Swirler effects on combustion instabilities analyzed with measured FDFs, injector impedances and damping rates," 2022, Combustion and Flame
  • "Locking of azimuthal modes by breaking the symmetry in annular combustors," 2021, Combustion and Flame

Sébastien Candel has been awarded notable distinctions including being named a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for research on turbulent flames, combustion instabilities, and active control. In 2009, they were also inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to multidisciplinary problems involving combustion, fluid mechanics, aeroacoustics, and propulsion.

Best Publications

  • A review of active control of combustion instabilities

    K.R. McManus;T. Poinsot;S.M. Candel

  • Combustion dynamics and control: Progress and challenges

    Sébastien Candel

  • Combustion control and sensors: a review

    Nicolas Docquier;Sébastien Candel

  • Flame Stretch and the Balance Equation for the Flame Area

    Sebastien M. Candel;Thierry J. Poinsot

  • Vortex-driven acoustically coupled combustion instabilities

    Thierry J. Poinsot;Arnaud C. Trouve;Denis P. Veynante;Sebastien M. Candel

  • A unified framework for nonlinear combustion instability analysis based on the flame describing function

    Nicolas Noiray;Daniel Durox;Thierry Schuller;Sébastien Candel

  • Acoustic disturbance from gas non-uniformities convected through a nozzle

    F.E. Marble;S.M. Candel

  • A unified model for the prediction of laminar flame transfer functions: comparisons between conical and V-flame dynamics

    Thierry Schuller;Daniel Durox;Sébastien Candel

  • Combustion Dynamics and Instabilities: Elementary Coupling and Driving Mechanisms

    Sebastien Ducruix;Thierry Schuller;Daniel Durox;Sebastien Candel

  • Quenching processes and premixed turbulent combustion diagrams

    T. J. Poinsot;D. Veynante;S. Candel

  • The combined dynamics of swirler and turbulent premixed swirling flames

    Paul Palies;Daniel Durox;Thierry Schuller;Sébastien Candel

  • Dynamics of Swirling Flames

    Sébastien Candel;Daniel Durox;Thierry Schuller;Jean François Bourgouin

  • Theoretical and experimental determinations of the transfer function of a laminar premixed flame

    Sébastien Ducruix;Sébastien Ducruix;Daniel Durox;Daniel Durox;Sébastien Candel;Sébastien Candel

  • Dynamics of flame/vortex interactions

    Paul-Henry Renard;D. Thevenin;Juan-Carlos Rolon;Sébastien Candel

  • Stochastic approach to noise modeling for free turbulent flows

    Walid Bechara;Christophe Bailly;Philippe Lafon;Sebastien M. Candel

  • Combustion instabilities coupled by pressure waves and their active control

    Sébastien M. Candel

  • Applications of direct numerical simulation to premixed turbulent combustion

    Thierry Poinsot;Sébastien Candel;Arnaud Trouvé

  • Experimental analysis of nonlinear flame transfer functions for different flame geometries

    Daniel Durox;Thierry Schuller;Nicolas Noiray;Sébastien Candel

  • Calculations of high-order harmonic-generation processes in xenon at 1064 nm

    Anne L’Huillier;Philippe Balcou;Sebastien Candel;Kenneth J. Schafer

  • Nonlinear combustion instability analysis based on the flame describing function applied to turbulent premixed swirling flames

    P. Palies;D. Durox;T. Schuller;S. Candel;S. Candel

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Durox
Daniel Durox CentraleSupélec
Thierry Schuller
Thierry Schuller Paul Sabatier University
Sébastien Ducruix
Sébastien Ducruix University of Paris-Saclay
Nasser Darabiha
Nasser Darabiha University of Paris-Saclay
Thierry Poinsot
Thierry Poinsot Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse
Denis Veynante
Denis Veynante CentraleSupélec
Jonas P. Moeck
Jonas P. Moeck Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Nicolas Noiray
Nicolas Noiray ETH Zurich
Dominique Thévenin
Dominique Thévenin Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Christophe Bailly
Christophe Bailly École Centrale de Lyon

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