Hongfa Di

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Hongfa Di is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Building and Construction and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Hongfa Di has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 14 papers in Building and Construction and 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Hongfa Di's work include Phase Change Materials Research (16 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers). Hongfa Di is often cited by papers focused on Phase Change Materials Research (16 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (14 papers) and Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems (8 papers). Hongfa Di collaborates with scholars based in China and Hong Kong. Hongfa Di's co-authors include Yinping Zhang, Kunping Lin, Qunli Zhang, Guobing Zhou, Rui Yang, Ruolang Zeng, Xin Wang, Xu Xu, Baoping Xu and Xu Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management and Solar Energy.

In The Last Decade

Hongfa Di

27 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Application of latent heat thermal energy storage in buildings: State-of-the-art and outlook

2006 526 citations Yinping Zhang, Guobing Zhou et al. Building and Environment profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hongfa Di China	16	1.8k	1.0k	821	262	195	27	2.2k
Guobing Zhou China	24	2.4k 1.3×	912 0.9×	693 0.8×	196 0.7×	365 1.9×	56	2.7k
Uroš Stritih Slovenia	18	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	632 0.8×	131 0.5×	111 0.6×	44	2.4k
Kunping Lin China	13	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	761 0.9×	215 0.8×	49 0.3×	22	2.1k
Zohir Younsi France	20	934 0.5×	464 0.4×	423 0.5×	185 0.7×	125 0.6×	60	1.3k
Hasan Karabay Türkiye	20	992 0.5×	443 0.4×	693 0.8×	360 1.4×	245 1.3×	41	1.5k
Philip Griffiths United Kingdom	17	849 0.5×	616 0.6×	667 0.8×	278 1.1×	57 0.3×	47	1.5k
Mustapha Karkri France	31	1.5k 0.8×	838 0.8×	626 0.8×	163 0.6×	154 0.8×	76	2.5k
Abdulrahman Th. Mohammad Iraq	18	2.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	338 0.4×	53 0.2×	223 1.1×	50	2.4k
Vineet Veer Tyagi India	12	1.5k 0.8×	836 0.8×	320 0.4×	77 0.3×	101 0.5×	28	1.8k
Damien David France	12	1.0k 0.6×	532 0.5×	387 0.5×	123 0.5×	58 0.3×	24	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongfa Di

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zeng, Ruolang, Xin Wang, Hongfa Di, Feng Jiang, & Yinping Zhang. (2010). New concepts and approach for developing energy efficient buildings: Ideal specific heat for building internal thermal mass. Energy and Buildings. 43(5). 1081–1090. 132 indexed citations

Xu, Baoping, et al.. (2010). Simulation and analysis on control effectiveness of TRVs in district heating systems. Energy and Buildings. 43(5). 1169–1174. 24 indexed citations

Fu, Lin, et al.. (2010). Incremental Evaluation Method- An Integrated Method to Assess Urban Energy System. 18. 1–5. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Ruolang, et al.. (2009). Heat transfer characteristics of microencapsulated phase change material slurry in laminar flow under constant heat flux. Applied Energy. 86(12). 2661–2670. 110 indexed citations

Fu, Lin, et al.. (2009). Urban Energy Carrying Capacity- A Evaluation Method on Sustainable Urban Energy System. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

Fu, Lin, et al.. (2009). Urban Building Energy Planning With Space Distribution and Time Dynamic Simulation. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 131(3). 6 indexed citations

Zhang, Qunli, Lin Fu, Lihua Li, & Hongfa Di. (2009). The Energy Efficiency and Economic Feasibility Analysis of the Distributed Absorption Cooling Combined With District Heating System. 49–55. 2 indexed citations

Zeng, Ruolang, Xin Wang, Wei Xiao, et al.. (2009). Thermal performance of phase change material energy storage floor for active solar water-heating system. Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering in China. 4(2). 185–191. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Xin, Yinping Zhang, Wei Xiao, et al.. (2009). Review on thermal performance of phase change energy storage building envelope. Science Bulletin. 54(6). 920–928. 130 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, Ruolang Zeng, Yinping Zhang, et al.. (2008). An experimental study of convective heat transfer with microencapsulated phase change material suspension: Laminar flow in a circular tube under constant heat flux. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 32(8). 1638–1646. 219 indexed citations

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Xu, Baoping, Lin Fu, & Hongfa Di. (2008). Dynamic simulation of space heating systems with radiators controlled by TRVs in buildings. Energy and Buildings. 40(9). 1755–1764. 71 indexed citations

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Xu, Baoping, Lin Fu, & Hongfa Di. (2008). Field investigation on consumer behavior and hydraulic performance of a district heating system in Tianjin, China. Building and Environment. 44(2). 249–259. 42 indexed citations

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Zhou, Guobing, Yinping Zhang, Qunli Zhang, Kunping Lin, & Hongfa Di. (2007). Performance of a hybrid heating system with thermal storage using shape-stabilized phase-change material plates. Applied Energy. 84(10). 1068–1077. 67 indexed citations

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Lin, Kunping, Yinping Zhang, Hongfa Di, & Rui Yang. (2007). Study of an electrical heating system with ductless air supply and shape-stabilized PCM for thermal storage. Energy Conversion and Management. 48(7). 2016–2024. 60 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yinping, Kunping Lin, Qunli Zhang, & Hongfa Di. (2006). Ideal thermophysical properties for free-cooling (or heating) buildings with constant thermal physical property material. Energy and Buildings. 38(10). 1164–1170. 114 indexed citations

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Xu, Xu, Yinping Zhang, Kunping Lin, Hongfa Di, & Rui Yang. (2005). Modeling and simulation on the thermal performance of shape-stabilized phase change material floor used in passive solar buildings. Energy and Buildings. 37(10). 1084–1091. 162 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yinping, Xu Xu, Hongfa Di, Kunping Lin, & Rui Yang. (2005). Experimental Study on the Thermal Performance of the Shape-Stabilized Phase Change Material Floor Used in Passive Solar Buildings. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 128(2). 255–257. 25 indexed citations

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Xu, Xu, Yinping Zhang, Kunping Lin, Hongfa Di, & Rui Yang. (2004). Model and Simulation on Thermal Performance of Shape-Stabilized Phase Change Material Floor. Solar Energy. 23–35. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, Jing Liu, Yinping Zhang, Hongfa Di, & Yi Jiang. (2004). Experimental Research on High-temperature Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Heater. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yinping, et al.. (2000). Simple method of calculating the transient thermal performance of composite material and its applicable condition. Science in China. Series E, Technological sciences. 43(4). 344–348. 2 indexed citations

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