B. L. Button

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

B. L. Button is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, B. L. Button has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Computational Mechanics and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in B. L. Button's work include Heat Transfer Mechanisms (5 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (4 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (3 papers). B. L. Button is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer Mechanisms (5 papers), Heat Transfer and Optimization (4 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (3 papers). B. L. Button collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and France. B. L. Button's co-authors include K. Jambunathan, Eugene Lai, M. A. Moss, T. Chivers, Brian Dobbins, J. A. Cutts, C. Wykes, Richard J. Edwards, K. Paler and Xiaoping Wu and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Pattern Recognition Letters.

In The Last Decade

B. L. Button

16 papers receiving 955 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A review of heat transfer data for single circular jet impingement

1992 949 citations K. Jambunathan, Eugene Lai et al. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. L. Button United Kingdom	4	942	877	342	83	77	16	1.0k
C. P. Lee United States	15	979 1.0×	936 1.1×	636 1.9×	84 1.0×	26 0.3×	17	1.1k
R. S. Bunker United States	22	1.5k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.3k 3.8×	57 0.7×	46 0.6×	41	1.7k
Aaron R. Byerley United States	15	341 0.4×	508 0.6×	541 1.6×	29 0.3×	21 0.3×	52	679
B. Glezer United States	16	954 1.0×	835 1.0×	543 1.6×	103 1.2×	23 0.3×	34	1.0k
Sadanari Mochizuki Japan	19	947 1.0×	806 0.9×	293 0.9×	190 2.3×	44 0.6×	84	1.0k
Lee S. Langston United States	13	696 0.7×	984 1.1×	1.0k 3.0×	24 0.3×	28 0.4×	70	1.2k
S. D. Spring United States	21	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	758 2.2×	77 0.9×	51 0.7×	37	1.4k
N. T. Obot United States	12	590 0.6×	409 0.5×	166 0.5×	140 1.7×	25 0.3×	34	689
S. C. Lau United States	21	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	555 1.6×	162 2.0×	51 0.7×	62	1.4k
A.I. Behbahani United States	5	492 0.5×	462 0.5×	221 0.6×	29 0.3×	38 0.5×	8	548

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16 of 16 papers shown

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Jambunathan, K., et al.. (1993). A comparison of two swirl measurement techniques. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 6(1). 5–14. 3 indexed citations

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Jambunathan, K., Eugene Lai, M. A. Moss, & B. L. Button. (1992). A review of heat transfer data for single circular jet impingement. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 13(2). 106–115. 949 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lai, Eugene, M. A. Moss, K. Jambunathan, & B. L. Button. (1992). The implementation of a deductive database for engineering correlations. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 5(2). 145–153. 1 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1991). Application of phase-stepping speckle interferometry to shape and deformation measurement of a 3-D surface. 81–81. 1 indexed citations

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Edwards, Richard J., K. Jambunathan, & B. L. Button. (1990). HEAT TRANSFER IN ANNULAR DUCTS WITH FREELY DECAYING SWIRL FLOW. Proceeding of International Heat Transfer Conference 9. 401–407. 2 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1989). An expert system for convective heat transfer measurements using a transient analysis. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 2(1). 40–48. 1 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1988). Full-field in situ measurement of local mass transfer coefficient using ESPI with the swollen polymer technique. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 31(7). 1375–1384. 2 indexed citations

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Jambunathan, K., Richard J. Edwards, & B. L. Button. (1987). Convective heat-transfer coefficients: The colour-change paint technique. Applied Energy. 28(2). 137–152. 3 indexed citations

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Paler, K., et al.. (1987). Identification of fringe minima in electronic speckle pattern images. Pattern Recognition Letters. 6(1). 33–44. 2 indexed citations

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Button, B. L.. (1985). Effectiveness measurements for a cooling film disrupted by a single jet with wall plunging. 1 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1985). The identification of fringe positions in speckle patterns. Optics & Laser Technology. 17(4). 189–192. 10 indexed citations

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Button, B. L. & Brian Dobbins. (1984). Interferometry for in situ mass transfer measurements in a wind tunnel. Experiments in Fluids. 2(4). 203–203. 1 indexed citations

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Button, B. L.. (1983). Effectiveness Measurements for a Cooling Film Disrupted by a Single Jet. 3 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1983). Experimental techniques to determine the convective heat transfer coefficients for flat and curved surfaces. 1(3). 163–170. 3 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1978). Gas Flow Through Cracks. Journal of Fluids Engineering. 100(4). 453–458. 20 indexed citations

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Button, B. L., et al.. (1975). Hydraulic Transport of Single Spheres in a Horizontal Pipe. Journal of Fluids Engineering. 97(2). 243–246. 2 indexed citations

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