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D-Index
31
Citations
6082
World Ranking
3258
National Ranking
1098

Simon Ostrach 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 Simon Ostrach sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 115 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon Ostrach 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 Simon Ostrach 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: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% 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

  • 1982 - Max Jakob Memorial Award
  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1975 - Heat Transfer Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1964 - Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Simon Ostrach was affiliated with Case Western Reserve University in the United States. Over the course of their career, they contributed to the field of mechanical engineering, with a particular focus on heat transfer and related phenomena.

Throughout their professional life, Ostrach received several recognitions acknowledging their work. These included the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1964. Later, they were awarded the Heat Transfer Memorial Award by the same society in 1975. They also became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1977. In 1982, they were honored with the Max Jakob Memorial Award.

Their research interests and contributions were linked primarily to mechanical engineering areas focusing on heat transfer processes. Though specific papers, coauthors, and venues for their publications are not documented here, the awards indicate involvement in significant developments within these topics.

Best Publications

  • Natural convection in enclosures

    Simon Ostrach

  • Low-Gravity Fluid Flows

    S. Ostrach

  • Fluid Mechanics in Crystal Growth—The 1982 Freeman Scholar Lecture

    Simon Ostrach

  • Convective effects in crystals grown from melt

    Sudheer M. Pimputkar;Simon Ostrach

  • Oscillatory thermocapillary convection in a simulated floating-zone configuration

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;M. Vargas

  • Experimental study of natural convection in shallow enclosures with horizontal temperature and concentration gradients

    Y. Kamotani;L.W. Wang;S. Ostrach;H.D. Jiang

  • Thermal convection in an enclosure due to vibrations aboard spacecraft

    Y. Kamotani;A. Prasad;S. Ostrach

  • A long wave approximation to peristaltic motion

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  • Natural convection heat transfer in cavities and cells

    S. Ostrach

  • Heat Transfer Augmentation in Laminar Fully Developed Channel Flow by Means of Heating From Below

    S. Ostrach;Y. Kamotani

  • The solution of a two-dimensional freezing problem including convection effects in the liquid region

    P.G. Kroeger;S. Ostrach

  • An experimental study of oscillatory thermocapillary convection in cylindrical containers

    Y. Kamotani;J. H. Lee;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • Microgravity experiments and analysis of oscillatory thermocapillary flows in cylindrical containers

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;J. Masud

  • Effect of Thermal Instability on Thermally Developing Laminar Channel Flow

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach

  • Modeling bubble and drop formation in flowing liquids in microgravity

    Ieehwan Kim;Yasuhiro Kamotani;Simon Ostrach

  • Analysis of velocity data taken in Surface Tension Driven Convection Experiment in microgravity

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • Transient thermocapillary flow in thin liquid layers

    Sudheer M. Pimputkar;Simon Ostrach

  • Convective Heat Transfer Augmentation in Thermal Entrance Regions by means of Thermal Instability

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;H. Miao

  • Theoretical analysis of thermocapillary flow in cylindrical columns of high prandtl number fluids

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach

  • A thermocapillary convection experiment in microgravity

    Y. Kamotani;S. Ostrach;A. Pline

  • TRANSPORT PHENOMENA IN MATERIALS PROCESSING

    Simon Ostrach

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Duncan Dowson University of Leeds

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