Kan Kan

2.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
73 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kan Kan is a scholar working on Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kan Kan has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Mechanics of Materials, 38 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 30 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kan Kan's work include Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps (56 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (37 papers) and Water Systems and Optimization (21 papers). Kan Kan is often cited by papers focused on Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps (56 papers), Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems (37 papers) and Water Systems and Optimization (21 papers). Kan Kan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Kan Kan's co-authors include Yuan Zheng, Huixiang Chen, Maxime Binama, Daqing Zhou, Zhe Xu, Lian Shen, Hui Xu, Alexis Muhirwa, Zixuan Yang and Wen-Tao Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

In The Last Decade

Kan Kan

65 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Pump as turbine cavitation performance for both conventional and reverse operating modes: A review

2022 127 citations Kan Kan, Maxime Binama et al. profile →
Energy loss mechanism due to tip leakage flow of axial flow pump as turbine under various operating conditions

2022 121 citations Kan Kan, Zhe Xu et al. Energy profile →
Rotating stall mechanism of pump-turbine in hump region: An insight into vortex evolution

2024 53 citations Lianchen Xu, Kan Kan et al. Energy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kan Kan China	20	1.2k	907	532	334	307	73	1.5k
Houlin Liu China	20	1.0k 0.9×	923 1.0×	362 0.7×	409 1.2×	201 0.7×	151	1.4k
Maxime Binama China	17	873 0.7×	720 0.8×	432 0.8×	196 0.6×	234 0.8×	40	1.2k
Yongyao Luo China	24	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	594 1.1×	542 1.6×	466 1.5×	117	2.0k
Alireza Riasi Iran	24	802 0.7×	688 0.8×	578 1.1×	276 0.8×	178 0.6×	74	1.4k
Ahmad Nourbakhsh Iran	20	833 0.7×	696 0.8×	618 1.2×	231 0.7×	161 0.5×	45	1.4k
Xianzhu Wei China	28	2.0k 1.7×	1.7k 1.9×	1.2k 2.2×	417 1.2×	334 1.1×	85	2.3k
Leqin Wang China	21	835 0.7×	869 1.0×	486 0.9×	259 0.8×	173 0.6×	76	1.3k
Shahram Derakhshan Iran	22	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	733 1.4×	334 1.0×	329 1.1×	49	1.9k
Xingqi Luo China	22	905 0.8×	922 1.0×	397 0.7×	430 1.3×	236 0.8×	138	1.7k
Ole Gunnar Dahlhaug Norway	28	1.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.4×	1.0k 1.9×	519 1.6×	677 2.2×	128	2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kan Kan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kan, Kan, et al.. (2025). Optimized air admission strategy for mitigating hydrodynamic instability in a large Francis turbine. AIP Advances. 15(7).

Chen, Huixiang, et al.. (2025). Multi-objective optimization of hydraulic performance of an ultra-low head axial-flow turbine with improved blade camber line configuration. Renewable Energy. 251. 123432–123432. 1 indexed citations

Kan, Kan, et al.. (2025). Fluid deformation induced energy loss of pump-turbines based on the transport of mean kinetic energy. Renewable Energy. 248. 122998–122998. 7 indexed citations

Zheng, Yuan, et al.. (2024). Numerical investigation of hydraulic instability of pump-turbines in fast pump-to-turbine transition. Journal of Energy Storage. 96. 112731–112731. 17 indexed citations

Xu, Lianchen, Kan Kan, Yuan Zheng, & Demin Liu. (2024). Experimental study on draft tube of a model kaplan turbine. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2752(1). 12014–12014. 1 indexed citations

Zhu, Jianzhong, et al.. (2024). Study on the Cavitation Performance in the Impeller Region of a Mixed-Flow Pump Under Different Flow Rates. Water. 16(22). 3195–3195.

Kan, Kan, et al.. (2024). Flow instability of an axial flow pump-as-turbine using relative streamline coordinates. Physics of Fluids. 36(3). 3 indexed citations

Kan, Kan, et al.. (2024). Fish-friendly optimization of low-head axial-flow turbines. Ocean Engineering. 317. 120070–120070. 3 indexed citations

Kan, Kan, et al.. (2024). Investigation on transition characteristics of hydrofoil boundary layer based on algebraic local-correlation-based transition modeling model. Physics of Fluids. 36(10).

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Kan, Kan, et al.. (2024). Investigation on leakage vortex propagation stability in tip clearance of axial liquid hydrogen pumps. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 89. 1196–1211. 2 indexed citations

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Yuan, Zheng, et al.. (2024). Advances in Hydrodynamics of Water Pump Station System. Water. 16(10). 1430–1430. 1 indexed citations

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Kan, Kan, et al.. (2024). Investigation on the influence of geometric parameters in water jet propulsion systems at low cruising speeds. Physics of Fluids. 36(11). 5 indexed citations

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Li, Haoyu, Yuan Zheng, Jiangang Feng, et al.. (2023). Investigation of Structural Strength and Fatigue Life of Rotor System of a Vertical Axial-Flow Pump under Full Operating Conditions. Water. 15(17). 3041–3041. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Jiangang, Yuan Zheng, Hui Xu, et al.. (2023). A computational method for complex-shaped hydraulic turbomachinery flow based on the immersed boundary method. AIP Advances. 13(8). 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhe, Yuan Zheng, Kan Kan, & Huixiang Chen. (2023). Flow instability and energy performance of a coastal axial-flow pump as turbine under the influence of upstream waves. Energy. 272. 127121–127121. 30 indexed citations

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Kan, Kan, Yuan Zheng, Zhe Xu, et al.. (2023). The vortex dynamics characteristics in a pump-turbine: A rigid vorticity analysis while varying guide vane openings in turbine mode. Energy. 289. 130086–130086. 24 indexed citations

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Suvorov, Aleksey, et al.. (2023). Life extension of AC-DC converters for hydrogen electrolysers operating as part of offshore wind turbines. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 51. 137–159. 8 indexed citations

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Kan, Kan, et al.. (2023). Intelligent optimization of axial-flow pump using physics-considering machine learning. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering. 11(1). 325–342. 4 indexed citations

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Kan, Kan, et al.. (2020). Numerical study of turbulent flow past a rotating axial-flow pump based on a level-set immersed boundary method. Renewable Energy. 168. 960–971. 120 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaoya, et al.. (2019). Research on Improved Equivalent Diagonal Strut Model for Masonry‐Infilled RC Frame with Flexible Connection. Advances in Civil Engineering. 2019(1). 4 indexed citations

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