Kambiz Vafai

438 papers and 23.0k indexed citations i.

About

Kambiz Vafai is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kambiz Vafai has authored 438 papers receiving a total of 23.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 241 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 224 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 224 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Kambiz Vafai’s work include Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (216 papers), Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media (130 papers) and Heat Transfer and Optimization (117 papers). Kambiz Vafai is often cited by papers focused on Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer (216 papers), Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media (130 papers) and Heat Transfer and Optimization (117 papers). Kambiz Vafai collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Iran. Kambiz Vafai's co-authors include Khalil Khanafer, Marilyn Lightstone, C. L. Tien, A.-R. A. Khaled, Bader Al-Azmi, R. Ellahi, Shadi Mahjoob, Dae‐Young Lee, Mehmet Sözen and Kun Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Applied Physics and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kambiz Vafai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kambiz Vafai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kambiz Vafai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kambiz Vafai. Kambiz Vafai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Kambiz Vafai

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Countries citing papers authored by Kambiz Vafai

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