Gunnar Heskestad

3.6k total citations
55 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Gunnar Heskestad is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Ocean Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunnar Heskestad has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 19 papers in Ocean Engineering and 18 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gunnar Heskestad's work include Fire dynamics and safety research (36 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (16 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (16 papers). Gunnar Heskestad is often cited by papers focused on Fire dynamics and safety research (36 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (16 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (16 papers). Gunnar Heskestad collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Gunnar Heskestad's co-authors include B. J. McCaffrey, Michael A. Delichatsios, T. Hamada, Peter Wu, John L. de Ris, Robert Bill, Torgrim Log, Robert N. Meroney, Craig L. Beyler and James A. Milke and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Applied Mechanics, AIAA Journal and Combustion and Flame.

In The Last Decade

Gunnar Heskestad

54 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gunnar Heskestad United States 23 2.0k 1.1k 913 851 733 55 2.6k
Jiann C. Yang United States 26 922 0.5× 193 0.2× 623 0.7× 519 0.6× 782 1.1× 101 2.0k
Fei Tang China 41 4.4k 2.2× 2.8k 2.6× 1.1k 1.2× 2.2k 2.6× 641 0.9× 174 4.7k
R. Huo China 27 2.7k 1.3× 2.5k 2.3× 316 0.3× 1.5k 1.8× 74 0.1× 96 3.1k
Jason Floyd United States 14 722 0.4× 369 0.3× 273 0.3× 215 0.3× 179 0.2× 44 933
M. Poreh Israel 16 197 0.1× 215 0.2× 183 0.2× 118 0.1× 400 0.5× 47 839
Shankar Mahalingam United States 23 711 0.3× 87 0.1× 130 0.1× 812 1.0× 571 0.8× 87 1.6k
Timothy O'Doherty United Kingdom 24 182 0.1× 396 0.4× 1.2k 1.3× 65 0.1× 1.3k 1.8× 108 2.2k
Rajnish N. Sharma New Zealand 27 75 0.0× 201 0.2× 892 1.0× 76 0.1× 888 1.2× 135 2.0k
Pieter Rauwoens Belgium 13 205 0.1× 267 0.2× 117 0.1× 89 0.1× 275 0.4× 54 742

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (2006). Heat of combustion in spreading wood crib fires with application to ceiling jets. Fire Safety Journal. 41(5). 343–348. 13 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (2001). Rise of plume front from starting fires. Fire Safety Journal. 36(2). 201–204. 9 indexed citations
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Ris, John L. de, Peter Wu, & Gunnar Heskestad. (2000). Radiation fire modeling. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 28(2). 2751–2759. 134 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1999). Turbulent jet diffusion flames: consolidation of flame height data. Combustion and Flame. 118(1-2). 51–60. 86 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1998). Dynamics of the fire plume. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 356(1748). 2815–2833. 51 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1995). Fire Plume Behavior in Temperature-Stratified Ambients. Combustion Science and Technology. 106(4-6). 207–228. 13 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar & T. Hamada. (1993). Ceiling jets of strong fire plumes. Fire Safety Journal. 21(1). 69–82. 131 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar, et al.. (1993). Physical modeling of water sprays—comparison against field operations. Process Safety Progress. 12(3). 143–146. 3 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1992). Volume expansion pressures and global heat transfer in compartment fires. Symposium (International) on Combustion. 24(1). 1753–1760. 1 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1991). A reduced-scale mass fire experiment. Combustion and Flame. 83(3-4). 293–301. 36 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar & Michael A. Delichatsios. (1989). Update: The initial convective flow in fire. Fire Safety Journal. 15(6). 471–475. 28 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1988). Quantification of Thermal Responsiveness of Automatic Sprinklers Including Conduction Effects, Gunner Heskestad and Robert G. Bill Jr.. Fire Safety Journal. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1988). Fire plume air entrainment according to two competing assumptions. Symposium (International) on Combustion. 21(1). 111–120. 56 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar, et al.. (1986). Experimental Fires in Multiroom/Corridor Enclosures. | NIST. 2 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1980). The Role of Water in Suppression of Fire -- A Review. 11(4). 254–262. 15 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1979). Ease of ignition of fabrics exposed to flaming heat sources. 6(1). 28–88. 2 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1973). Modeling of enclosure fires. Symposium (International) on Combustion. 14(1). 1021–1030. 96 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1971). Two-Dimensional Miter-Bend Flow. Journal of Basic Engineering. 93(3). 433–443. 8 indexed citations
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Heskestad, Gunnar. (1965). Hot-Wire Measurements in a Plane Turbulent Jet. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 32(4). 721–734. 219 indexed citations

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