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D-Index
43
Citations
6173
World Ranking
1749
National Ranking
666

Thomas L. Jackson 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 Thomas L. Jackson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 233 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas L. Jackson 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 Thomas L. Jackson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas L. Jackson is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on aerospace engineering, mechanics of materials, computational mechanics, ocean engineering, and materials chemistry.

Their research spans several key topics including energetic materials and combustion, combustion and detonation processes, rocket and propulsion systems research, particle dynamics in fluid flows, high-velocity impact and material behavior, elasticity and material modeling, and computational fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.

Jackson's recent papers illustrate a concentration on thermo-mechanical simulations and the behavior of heterogeneous solid propellants. These works include:

  • Eulerian thermo-mechanical simulations of heterogeneous solid propellants using an approximate projection method, 2020, Combustion and Flame
  • Three-dimensional thermo-mechanical simulations of heterogeneous solid propellants, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Investigating dimensional effects on predicting burning rates of heterogeneous solid propellants, 2020, AIAA Journal
  • Calibration of reactive burn and Jones-Wilkins-Lee parameters for simulations of a detonation-driven flow experiment with uncertainty quantification, 2020, Physical Review Fluids
  • Shock and contact interaction with a simple cubic array of particles, 2024, Physics of Fluids

Frequent collaborators in their work have included S. Balachandar, Tadbhagya Kumar, Joshua Garno, Frederick Ouellet, and Sam Briney.

Publication venues where Jackson has appeared multiple times reflect their areas of focus and include:

  • Combustion and Flame
  • Physical Review Fluids
  • AIAA Journal
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Journal of Propulsion and Power

Their contributions cover a wide range of interdisciplinary topics within engineering, intersecting fluid dynamics, material behavior under extreme conditions, and propulsion systems, with an emphasis on computational approaches to problem-solving in aerospace and material sciences.

Best Publications

  • Theory and Computation in Hydrodynamic Stability

    W. O. Criminale;T. L. Jackson;R. D. Joslin

  • Inviscid spatial stability of a compressible mixing layer

    T. L. Jackson;C. E. Grosch

  • Random Packing of Heterogeneous Propellants

    G. M. Knott;T. L. Jackson;J. Buckmaster

  • Heterogeneous Propellant Combustion

    T. L. Jackson;J. Buckmaster

  • Pairwise interaction extended point-particle model for a random array of monodisperse spheres

    G. Akiki;T. L. Jackson;S. Balachandar

  • Theory and Computation of Hydrodynamic Stability

    William O. Criminale;Thomas L. Jackson;R. D. Joslin

  • Multiscale modeling of solid propellants: From particle packing to failure

    K. Matouš;H.M. Inglis;X. Gu;D. Rypl

  • Nonsteady burning of periodic sandwich propellants with complete coupling between the solid and gas phases

    A. Hegab;T. L. Jackson;J. Buckmaster;Donald Scott Stewart

  • New Kinetics for a Model of Heterogeneous Propellant Combustion

    L. Massa;T. L. Jackson;J. Buckmaster

  • New Aluminum Agglomeration Models and Their Use in Solid-Propellant-Rocket Simularions

    T. L. Jackson;F. Najjar;J. Buckmaster

  • Efficient solid rocket propulsion for access to space

    Filippo Maggi;Alessio Bandera;Luciano Galfetti;Luigi T. De Luca

  • Random Packs and Their Use in Modeling Heterogeneous Solid Propellant Combustion

    S. Kochevets;J. Buckmaster;T. L. Jackson;A. Hegab

  • Flames in narrow circular tubes

    T.L. Jackson;J. Buckmaster;Z. Lu;D.C. Kyritsis

  • Combustion in high-speed flows

    John David Buckmaster;Thomas L. Jackson;Ajay Kumar

  • Modeling of Heterogeneous Propellant Combustion: A Survey

    Thomas L. Jackson

  • Absolute/convective instabilities and the convective Mach number in a compressible mixing layer

    T. L. Jackson;C. E. Grosch

  • Numerical simulation of heterogeneous propellant combustion by a level set method

    X Wang;T L Jackson;L Massa

  • Force variation within arrays of monodisperse spherical particles

    G. Akiki;T. L. Jackson;S. Balachandar

  • Coupling micro and meso-scale combustion models of AP/HTPB propellants

    Matthew L. Gross;Trevor D. Hedman;Steven F. Son;Thomas L. Jackson

  • Shock-Induced Thermal Runaway,

    T. L. Jackson;A. K. Kapila

  • Using level sets for creating virtual random packs of non-spherical convex shapes

    D. Shane Stafford;Thomas L. Jackson

  • Program burn algorithms based on detonation shock dynamics

    D. Scott Stewart;Thomas L. Jackson

Frequent Co-Authors

John Buckmaster
John Buckmaster University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
M. Y. Hussaini
M. Y. Hussaini Florida State University
Moshe Matalon
Moshe Matalon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fady Najjar
Fady Najjar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jonathan B. Freund
Jonathan B. Freund University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Philippe H. Geubelle
Philippe H. Geubelle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steven F. Son
Steven F. Son Purdue University West Lafayette
Sanjay Ranka
Sanjay Ranka University of Florida
Herman Krier
Herman Krier University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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