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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
35
Citations
3518
World Ranking
2746
National Ranking
340

Yu Rao 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 Yu Rao sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 117 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yu Rao 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 Yu Rao 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: 35 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • A Review of Recent Investigations on Flow and Heat Transfer Enhancement in Cooling Channels Embedded with Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS)

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  • Convective heat transfer characteristics of microencapsulated phase change material suspensions in minichannels

    Yu Rao;Yu Rao;Frank Dammel;Peter Stephan;Guiping Lin

  • Experimental and Numerical Study of Heat Transfer and Flow Friction in Channels With Dimples of Different Shapes

    Yu Rao;Yan Feng;Bo Li;Bernhard Weigand

  • Heat transfer of turbulent flow over surfaces with spherical dimples and teardrop dimples

    Yu Rao;Bo Li;Yan Feng

  • An experimental study of pressure loss and heat transfer in the pin fin-dimple channels with various dimple depths

    Yu Rao;Chaoyi Wan;Yamin Xu

  • Numerical predictions of jet impingement heat transfer on square pin-fin roughened plates

    Chaoyi Wan;Yu Rao;Peng Chen

  • A review of recent studies on rotating internal cooling for gas turbine blades

    Kirttayoth Yeranee;Yu Rao

  • Multiple-jet impingement heat transfer in double-wall cooling structures with pin fins and effusion holes

    Yu Rao;Yuyang Liu;Chaoyi Wan

  • An experimental and numerical study of flow and heat transfer in channels with pin fin-dimple and pin fin arrays

    Yu Rao;Yamin Xu;Chaoyi Wan

  • A multiplexed optical fibre-based extrinsic Fabry-Perot sensor system for in-situ strain monitoring in composites

    Tonguy Liu;M. Q. Wu;Yun Jiang Rao;David A. Jackson

  • An Experimental Investigation on the Characteristics of Turbulent Boundary Layer Flows Over a Dimpled Surface

    Wenwu Zhou;Yu Rao;Hui Hu

  • Numerical simulations of a double-wall cooling with internal jet impingement and external hexagonal arrangement of film cooling holes

    Yuyang Liu;Yu Rao;Li Yang

  • Numerical investigation on conjugate heat transfer of impingement/effusion double-wall cooling with different crossflow schemes

    Guanjiang Chen;Yuyang Liu;Yu Rao;Jiahui He

  • Spatially-resolved heat transfer characteristics in channels with pin fin and pin fin-dimple arrays

    Yu Rao;Chaoyi Wan;Yamin Xu;Shusheng Zang

  • Optimization of the hole distribution of an effusively cooled surface facing non-uniform incoming temperature using deep learning approaches

    Li Yang;Wei Dai;Yu Rao;Minking K. Chyu

  • Experimental and numerical investigation of impingement heat transfer on the surface with micro W-shaped ribs

    Yu Rao;Peng Chen;Chaoyi Wan

  • Flow and Heat Transfer Characteristics of Supercritical Hydrocarbon Fuel in Mini Channels With Dimples

    Yu Feng;Jie Cao;Xin Li;Silong Zhang

  • Heat transfer and pressure loss in swirl tubes with one and multiple tangential jets pertinent to gas turbine internal cooling

    Yu Rao;Christoph Biegger;Bernhard Weigand

  • Experimental and Numerical Study of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in a Wedge-shaped Channel with Guiding Pin Fins for Turbine Blade Trailing Edge Cooling

    Ce Liang;Yu Rao;Jiahao Luo;Xiling Luo

  • Heat transfer and pressure loss of turbulent flow in channels with miniature structured ribs on one wall

    Yanlin Li;Yu Rao;Deqiang Wang;Peng Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Stephan
Peter Stephan Technical University of Darmstadt
Peng Zhang
Peng Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Bernhard Weigand
Bernhard Weigand University of Stuttgart
Hui Hu
Hui Hu Iowa State University
Minking K. Chyu
Minking K. Chyu University of Pittsburgh
Jiang Qin
Jiang Qin Harbin Institute of Technology
Silong Zhang
Silong Zhang Harbin Institute of Technology

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