Francesco Contino

6.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
167 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Francesco Contino is a scholar working on Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Contino has authored 167 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, 58 papers in Computational Mechanics and 58 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Francesco Contino's work include Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (59 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (49 papers) and Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems (40 papers). Francesco Contino is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (59 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (49 papers) and Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems (40 papers). Francesco Contino collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, France and Italy. Francesco Contino's co-authors include Christine Mounaïm–Rousselle, Pierre Bréquigny, Charles Lhuillier, Hervé Jeanmart, Alessandro Parente, Ward De Paepe, Maxime Pochet, Diederik Coppitters, Fabrice Foucher and Tommaso Lucchini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Contino

163 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Experimental study on ammonia/hydrogen/air combustion in spark ignition engine conditions

2020 449 citations Pierre Bréquigny, Francesco Contino et al. profile →
An experimental and modeling study of ammonia with enriched oxygen content and ammonia/hydrogen laminar flame speed at elevated pressure and temperature

2020 440 citations Pierre Bréquigny, Francesco Contino et al. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute profile →
Experimental investigation on laminar burning velocities of ammonia/hydrogen/air mixtures at elevated temperatures

2019 362 citations Pierre Bréquigny, Francesco Contino et al. profile →
Global land and water limits to electrolytic hydrogen production using wind and solar resources

2023 162 citations Lorenzo Rosa, Paolo Gabrielli et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Contino Belgium	35	3.0k	2.3k	1.6k	928	753	167	5.3k
Alessandro Parente Belgium	41	2.9k 0.9×	3.7k 1.6×	551 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	937 1.2×	233	5.7k
Agustín Valera-Medina United Kingdom	40	5.2k 1.7×	4.4k 1.9×	3.8k 2.3×	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.6×	209	8.6k
Konstantinos Boulouchos Switzerland	47	5.2k 1.7×	4.9k 2.1×	1.2k 0.7×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.5×	301	7.7k
Hervé Jeanmart Belgium	29	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	747 0.5×	458 0.5×	584 0.8×	112	3.1k
Song‐Charng Kong United States	42	5.1k 1.7×	4.2k 1.8×	2.1k 1.3×	781 0.8×	2.5k 3.3×	138	7.2k
Dimosthenis Trimis Germany	35	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 1.1×	832 0.5×	529 0.6×	951 1.3×	205	4.0k
Haiqiao Wei China	50	4.8k 1.6×	3.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	2.4k 2.6×	1.3k 1.7×	293	8.4k
Martti Larmi Finland	29	2.0k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	619 0.4×	654 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	162	3.4k
Xin He United States	42	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	735 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	995 1.3×	132	5.0k
Mohamed A. Habib Saudi Arabia	46	1.5k 0.5×	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	920 1.0×	1.6k 2.2×	299	7.8k

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Galloni, Enzo, et al.. (2025). Improving Ammonia Combustion in Spark-Ignition Engines Coupling Hydrogen Enrichment with Multiple Spark Plugs. Energy & Fuels. 39(14). 7137–7145. 1 indexed citations

Contino, Francesco, et al.. (2024). EnergyScope Pathway: An open-source model to optimise the energy transition pathways of a regional whole-energy system. Applied Energy. 358. 122501–122501. 12 indexed citations

Galloni, Enzo, et al.. (2024). Assessment of combustion development and pollutant emissions of a spark ignition engine fueled by ammonia and ammonia-hydrogen blends. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 85. 191–199. 23 indexed citations

Frate, Guido Francesco, et al.. (2024). Carnot batteries for integrated heat and power management in residential applications: A techno-economic analysis. Energy Conversion and Management. 325. 119207–119207. 8 indexed citations

Ende, Marie‐Aline Van, et al.. (2024). Influence of impurities on the use of Fe-based powder as sustainable fuel. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 382(2284). 20230236–20230236. 3 indexed citations

Paepe, Ward De, et al.. (2024). Operational Strategies of Two-Spool Micro Gas Turbine With Alternative Fuels: A Performance Assessment. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. 146(9). 2 indexed citations

Coppitters, Diederik, et al.. (2023). Energy, exergy, economic and environmental (4E) analysis of a cryogenic carbon purification unit with membrane for oxyfuel cement plant flue gas. Applied Energy. 357. 122431–122431. 5 indexed citations

Jeanmart, Hervé, et al.. (2023). Validation of a Method to Select a Priori the Number of Typical Days for Energy System Optimisation Models. Energies. 16(6). 2772–2772. 6 indexed citations

Dumont, Olivier, et al.. (2023). Is waste heat recovery a promising avenue for the Carnot battery? Techno-economic optimisation of an electric booster-assisted Carnot battery integrated into different data centres. Energy Conversion and Management. 301. 118030–118030. 14 indexed citations

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Rosa, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Global land and water limits to electrolytic hydrogen production using wind and solar resources. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5532–5532. 162 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coppitters, Diederik, et al.. (2022). Quantifying the impact of furnace heat transfer parameter uncertainties on the thermodynamic simulations of a biomass retrofit. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 37. 101592–101592. 7 indexed citations

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Coppitters, Diederik, et al.. (2022). RHEIA: Robust design optimization of renewable Hydrogenand dErIved energy cArrier systems. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(75). 4370–4370. 16 indexed citations

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Coppitters, Diederik, et al.. (2020). The impact of uncertainties on the Belgian energy system: application of the Polynomial Chaos Expansion to the EnergyScope model.. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 2 indexed citations

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Coppitters, Diederik, et al.. (2020). Multi-Fidelity Design Optimisation of a Solenoid-Driven Linear Compressor. Actuators. 9(2). 38–38. 3 indexed citations

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Iavarone, Salvatore, et al.. (2019). A multiscale combustion model formulation for NO predictions in hydrogen enriched jet flames. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 44(41). 23436–23457. 40 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiyi, Michał T. Lewandowski, Francesco Contino, & Alessandro Parente. (2018). Assessment of On-the-Fly Chemistry Reduction and Tabulation Approaches for the Simulation of Moderate or Intense Low-Oxygen Dilution Combustion. Energy & Fuels. 32(10). 10121–10131. 20 indexed citations

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Pochet, Maxime, Véronique Dias, Bruno Moreau, et al.. (2018). Experimental and numerical study, under LTC conditions, of ammonia ignition delay with and without hydrogen addition. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 37(1). 621–629. 174 indexed citations

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Wu, Kun, Francesco Contino, Wei Yao, & Xuejun Fan. (2018). On the application of tabulated dynamic adaptive chemistry in ethylene-fueled supersonic combustion. Combustion and Flame. 197. 265–275. 13 indexed citations

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Pochet, Maxime, et al.. (2016). HCCI engine operated with unscrubbed biomass syngas. Fuel Processing Technology. 157. 52–58. 37 indexed citations

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Dyakov, Igor V., Gino V. Baron, Svend Bram, Francesco Contino, & Jacques De Ruyck. (2014). EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS AND MODELING USING CESFAMB TM SOFTWARE OF THE PRODUCT GAS COMPONENTS ON THE 2MW TH GASIFIER PLANT. 5(1). 26–32. 1 indexed citations

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