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D-Index
45
Citations
9065
World Ranking
1513
National Ranking
39

Sergio Pirozzoli 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 Sergio Pirozzoli sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 260 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sergio Pirozzoli 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 Sergio Pirozzoli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% 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

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of elegant and accurate numerical methods, and for fundamental insights into turbulence and shockturbulence interactions in highspeed flows

Overview

Sergio Pirozzoli is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant concentration in computational mechanics.

Their publication record includes work in several subfields, such as computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, environmental engineering, and atmospheric science.

Main research topics addressed by Sergio Pirozzoli are:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows
  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sergio Pirozzoli include:

  • Alessandro Ceci
  • Paolo Orlandi
  • Davide Modesti
  • Giulio Soldati
  • Johan Larsson

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • AIAA Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Sergio Pirozzoli include:

  • "STREAmS: A high-fidelity accelerated solver for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows" (2021, Computer Physics Communications)
  • "One-point statistics for turbulent pipe flow up to" (2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • "Data-driven compressibility transformation for turbulent wall layers" (2020, Physical Review Fluids)
  • "STREAmS-2.0: Supersonic turbulent accelerated Navier-Stokes solver version 2.0" (2023, Computer Physics Communications)
  • "On shock sensors for hybrid compact/WENO schemes" (2020, Computers & Fluids)

In 2016, Sergio Pirozzoli was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for work related to the development of numerical methods and insights into turbulence and shock-turbulence interactions in high-speed flows.

Best Publications

  • Direct numerical simulation and analysis of a spatially evolving supersonic turbulent boundary layer at M=2.25

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Francesco Grasso;T. B. Gatski

  • Conservative Hybrid Compact-WENO Schemes for Shock-Turbulence Interaction

    Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Numerical Methods for High-Speed Flows

    Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Direct numerical simulation of impinging shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction at M=2.25

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Francesco Grasso

  • Turbulence in supersonic boundary layers at moderate Reynolds number

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini

  • Generalized conservative approximations of split convective derivative operators

    Sergio Pirozzoli

  • On the spectral properties of shock-capturing schemes

    Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Velocity statistics in turbulent channel flow up to

    Matteo Bernardini;Sergio Pirozzoli;Paolo Orlandi

  • Reynolds and Mach number effects in compressible turbulent channel flow

    Davide Modesti;Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Direct numerical simulation of transonic shock/boundary layer interaction under conditions of incipient separation

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini;Francesco Grasso

  • Characterization of coherent vortical structures in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini;Francesco Grasso

  • Direct numerical simulations of isotropic compressible turbulence: Influence of compressibility on dynamics and structures

    S. Pirozzoli;F. Grasso

  • Passive scalars in turbulent channel flow at high Reynolds number

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini;Paolo Orlandi

  • Wall pressure fluctuations beneath supersonic turbulent boundary layers

    Matteo Bernardini;Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Direct Numerical Simulation Database for Impinging Shock Wave/Turbulent Boundary-Layer Interaction

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini

  • Shock-Wave–Vortex Interactions: Shock and Vortex Deformations, and Sound Production

    F. Grasso;S. Pirozzoli

  • Inner/outer layer interactions in turbulent boundary layers: A refined measure for the large-scale amplitude modulation mechanism

    Matteo Bernardini;Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Turbulence statistics in Couette flow at high Reynolds number

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini;Paolo Orlandi

  • STREAmS: A high-fidelity accelerated solver for direct numerical simulation of compressible turbulent flows

    Matteo Bernardini;Davide Modesti;Francesco Salvadore;Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Probing high-Reynolds-number effects in numerical boundary layers

    Sergio Pirozzoli;Matteo Bernardini

  • Stabilized non-dissipative approximations of Euler equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates

    Sergio Pirozzoli

  • Turbulence and secondary motions in square duct flow

    S. Pirozzoli;D. Modesti;P. Orlandi;F. Grasso

Frequent Co-Authors

Matteo Bernardini
Matteo Bernardini Sapienza University of Rome
Paolo Orlandi
Paolo Orlandi Sapienza University of Rome
Johan Larsson
Johan Larsson University of Maryland, College Park
Roberto Verzicco
Roberto Verzicco University of Rome Tor Vergata
Sanjiva K. Lele
Sanjiva K. Lele Stanford University
Joseph Klewicki
Joseph Klewicki University of Melbourne
Marcus Hultmark
Marcus Hultmark Princeton University
Holger Babinsky
Holger Babinsky University of Cambridge
Alexander Smits
Alexander Smits Princeton University
Xiaohua Wu
Xiaohua Wu University of Geneva

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