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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
88
Citations
26107
World Ranking
129
National Ranking
66

Chemistry

D-Index
91
Citations
26533
World Ranking
1993
National Ranking
729

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative fundamental research in laminar flame dynamics, flame chemistry, and plasma assisted combustion
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Yiguang Ju is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in the field of engineering, with a focus on computational mechanics, materials chemistry, fluid flow and transfer processes, aerospace engineering, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their research primarily centers on advanced combustion engine technologies, combustion and flame dynamics, plasma applications and diagnostics, catalytic processes in materials science, combustion and detonation processes, as well as heat transfer and supercritical fluids.

Yiguang Ju has contributed extensively to academic literature, with recent publications including:

  • "Depolymerization of plastics by means of electrified spatiotemporal heating," 2023, Nature
  • "Programmable heating and quenching for efficient thermochemical synthesis," 2022, Nature
  • "Optical sensors for power transformer monitoring: A review," 2020, High Voltage
  • "Understanding cool flames and warm flames," 2020, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • "High pressure oxidation of NH3/n-heptane mixtures," 2023, Combustion and Flame

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yiguang Ju include:

  • Ziyu Wang
  • Hongtao Zhong
  • Chao Yan
  • Xingqian Mao
  • Timothy Y. Chen

Their work is well-represented in notable scientific venues, among which are:

  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Combustion and Flame
  • AIAA Scitech Forum (2021, 2022, 2023 editions)

In recognition of their contributions, Yiguang Ju was named a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 for research in laminar flame dynamics, flame chemistry, and plasma-assisted combustion. Additionally, they were honored as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

    Yiguang Ju;Wenting Sun

  • Comprehensive H2/O2 kinetic model for high-pressure combustion

    Michael P. Burke;Marcos Chaos;Yiguang Ju;Frederick L. Dryer

  • Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research

    Yiguang Ju;Kaoru Maruta

  • A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Marcos Chaos;Joshua S. Heyne

  • Advances and challenges in laminar flame experiments and implications for combustion chemistry

    Fokion N. Egolfopoulos;Nils Hansen;Yiguang Ju;Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus

  • A path flux analysis method for the reduction of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms

    Wenting Sun;Zheng Chen;Xiaolong Gou;Yiguang Ju

  • The experimental evaluation of a methodology for surrogate fuel formulation to emulate gas phase combustion kinetic phenomena

    Stephen Dooley;Sang Hee Won;Joshua Heyne;Tanvir I. Farouk

  • Effect of cylindrical confinement on the determination of laminar flame speeds using outwardly propagating flames

    Michael P. Burke;Zheng Chen;Yiguang Ju;Frederick L. Dryer

  • Effects of Lewis number and ignition energy on the determination of laminar flame speed using propagating spherical flames

    Zheng Chen;Michael P. Burke;Yiguang Ju

  • On the extinction limit and flammability limit of non-adiabatic stretched methane–air premixed flames

    Yiguang Ju;Hongsheng Guo;Kaoru Maruta;Fengshan Liu

  • A comprehensive experimental and modeling study of isobutene oxidation

    Chong-Wen Zhou;Yang Li;Eoin O'Connor;Kieran P. Somers

  • Flame propagation enhancement by plasma excitation of oxygen. Part I: Effects of O3

    Timothy Ombrello;Sang Hee Won;Yiguang Ju;Skip Williams

  • An experimental and modeling study of propene oxidation. Part 2: Ignition delay time and flame speed measurements

    Sinead M. Burke;Ultan Burke;Reuben Mc Donagh;Olivier Mathieu

  • Measurements of burning velocities of dimethyl ether and air premixed flames at elevated pressures

    Xiao Qin;Yiguang Ju

  • Complex CSP for chemistry reduction and analysis

    Tianfeng Lu;Yiguang Ju;Chung King Law

  • Theoretical analysis of the evolution from ignition kernel to flame ball and planar flame

    Zheng Chen;Yiguang Ju

  • The effect of hydrogen addition on flammability limit and NOx emission in ultra-lean counterflow CH4/air premixed flames

    Hongsheng Guo;Gregory J. Smallwood;Fengshan Liu;Yiguang Ju

  • On the critical flame radius and minimum ignition energy for spherical flame initiation

    Zheng Chen;Michael P. Burke;Yiguang Ju

  • Uncertainty in stretch extrapolation of laminar flame speed from expanding spherical flames

    Fujia Wu;Wenkai Liang;Zheng Chen;Yiguang Ju

  • Negative pressure dependence of mass burning rates of H2/CO/O2/diluent flames at low flame temperatures

    Michael P. Burke;Marcos Chaos;Frederick L. Dryer;Yiguang Ju

  • Pegylated Composite Nanoparticles Containing Upconverting Phosphors and meso‐Tetraphenyl porphine (TPP) for Photodynamic Therapy

    Jingning Shan;Stephanie J. Budijono;Guohong Hu;Nan Yao

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang Hee Won
Sang Hee Won University of South Carolina
Frederick L. Dryer
Frederick L. Dryer University of South Carolina
Zheng Chen
Zheng Chen Peking University
Chung King Law
Chung King Law Princeton University
Kaoru Maruta
Kaoru Maruta Tohoku University
Nan Yao
Nan Yao Princeton University
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger
Matthew A. Oehlschlaeger Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hongsheng Guo
Hongsheng Guo National Research Council Canada
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus Bielefeld University
Chih-Jen Sung
Chih-Jen Sung University of Connecticut

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