2026 Sergey Macheret: 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
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	40	2052	1904	763	668	225	5446

Overview

Sergey Macheret is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and focuses primarily on engineering research, with a significant emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Their scholarly output covers several intersecting fields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, materials chemistry, mechanics of materials, and applied mathematics.

The research topics that Macheret addresses involve plasma diagnostics and applications, plasma applications and diagnostics, gas dynamics and kinetic theory, catalytic processes in materials science, Bluetooth and wireless communication technologies, metal and thin film mechanics, and ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Macheret has contributed to multiple prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Journal of Applied Physics
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum
Applied Physics Letters
Physics of Plasmas

Recent papers by Sergey Macheret include:

Fundamentals and Applications of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas, 2021, Journal of Applied Physics
Experimental and Numerical Studies of a Tunable Plasma Antenna Sustained by RF Power, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Diagnostics of small plasma discharges using probing in wide range of microwave frequencies, 2020, Applied Physics Letters
Kinetic simulation of a 50 mTorr capacitively coupled argon discharge over a range of frequencies and comparison to experiments, 2023, Physics of Plasmas
New MHD Lift Concept for More Efficient Missions to Mars and Neptune, 2022, AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum

In collaborative research, Macheret has frequently worked with several co-authors, including:

Jonathan Poggie
Robert W. Moses
F. McNeil Cheatwood
Christopher O. Johnston
Bernard Parent

Best Publications

Vibrational Energy Transfer Rates Using a Forced Harmonic Oscillator Model

Igor V. Adamovich;Sergey O. Macheret;J. William Rich;Charles E. Treanor

290
Citations
Modeling of air plasma generation by repetitive high-voltage nanosecond pulses

S.O. Macheret;M.N. Shneider;R.B. Miles

205
Citations
Modeling of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator in air

Alexandre V. Likhanskii;Mikhail N. Shneider;Sergey O. Macheret;Richard B. Miles

203
Citations
Magnetohydrodynamic and Electrohydrodynamic Control of Hypersonic Flows of Weakly Ionized Plasmas

Sergey O. Macheret;Mikhail N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles

187
Citations
Vibrational relaxation and dissociation behind shock waves. Part 1 - Kinetic rate models.

Igor V. Adamovich;S. O. Macheret;J. W. Rich;Charles E. Treanor

172
Citations
Magnetohydrodynamic Control of Hypersonic Flows and Scramjet Inlets Using Electron Beam Ionization

Sergey O. Macheret;Mikhail N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles

169
Citations
Experimental investigation of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators driven by repetitive high-voltage nanosecond pulses with dc or low frequency sinusoidal bias

Dmitry F. Opaits;Alexandre V. Likhanskii;Gabriele Neretti;Sohail Zaidi

158
Citations
Surface charge in dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators

D. F. Opaits;M. N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles;A. V. Likhanskii

150
Citations
Modeling of dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators driven by repetitive nanosecond pulses

Alexandre V. Likhanskii;Mikhail N. Shneider;Sergey O. Macheret;Richard B. Miles

149
Citations
Magnetohydrodynamic Power Extraction from Cold Hypersonic Airflows with External Ionizers

Sergey O. Macheret;Mikhail N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles

124
Citations
Electron-Beam-Generated Plasmas in Hypersonic Magnetohydrodynamic Channels

Sergey O. Macheret;Mikhail N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles;Ronald J. Lipinski

121
Citations
Scramjet Inlet Control by Off-Body Energy Addition: A Virtual Cowl

Sergey O. Macheret;Mikhail N. Shneider;Richard B. Miles

115
Citations
Semiclassical modeling of state-specific dissociation rates in diatomic gases

Sergey O. Macheret;Igor V. Adamovich

112
Citations
Nonequilibrium dissociation rates behind strong shock waves: classical model

Sergey O. Macheret;J.William Rich

107
Citations
Shock wave propagation and dispersion in glow discharge plasmas

Sergey O. Macheret;Yuri Z. Ionikh;Naira V. Chernysheva;Azer P. Yalin

94
Citations
Modeling of Interaction Between Weakly Ionized Near- Surface Plasmas and Gas Flow

Alexander Likhanskii;Mikhail Shneider;Sergey Macheret;Richard Miles

93
Citations
Ionization in strong electric fields and dynamics of nanosecond-pulse plasmas

S. O. Macheret;M. N. Shneider;R. C. Murray

92
Citations
Vibrationally stimulated ionization of carbon monoxide in optical pumping experiments

I. Adamovich;S. Saupe;M.J. Grassi;O. Schulz

91
Citations
MHD power extraction from cold hypersonic air flow with external ionizers

Sergey Macheret;Mikhail Shneider;Richard Miles

81
Citations
Vibrational Relaxation and Dissociation Behind Shock Waves Part 2: Master Equation Modeling

Igor V. Adamovich;Sergey O. Macheret;J. William Rich;Charles E. Treanors

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikhail N. Shneider Princeton University

Dimitrios Peroulis Purdue University West Lafayette

Graham V. Candler University of Minnesota

Yiguang Ju Princeton University

Timothy S. Fisher University of California, Los Angeles

Mario Capitelli National Research Council (CNR)

Anthony G. Evans University of California, Santa Barbara

Vincenzo Aquilanti University of Perugia

Haydn N. G. Wadley University of Virginia

Mark J. Kushner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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