Kenneth D. Kihm

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
153 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Kenneth D. Kihm is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenneth D. Kihm has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Computational Mechanics, 53 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kenneth D. Kihm's work include Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (17 papers), Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (15 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers). Kenneth D. Kihm is often cited by papers focused on Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (17 papers), Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics (15 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers). Kenneth D. Kihm collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Kenneth D. Kihm's co-authors include Chan Hee Chon, Stephen U. S. Choi, Chang Kyoung Choi, Jae Sung Park, Arindam Banerjee, Joon Sik Lee, Sosan Cheon, Hong Goo Kim, Gyumin Lim and J. C. Han and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Kenneth D. Kihm

144 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

  1. Empirical correlation finding the role of temperature and particle size for nanofluid (Al2O3) thermal conductivity enhancement
    2005 1.1k citations Chan Hee Chon, Kenneth D. Kihm et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →

Peers

Kenneth D. Kihm
Stefan Odenbach Germany
Andrei G. Fedorov United States
Huiling Duan China
Sangtae Kim South Korea
Andreas Ostendorf Germany
J. De Coninck Belgium
Yu Qiao United States
Joel L. Plawsky United States
Martin A. Schmidt United States
Sami Franssila Finland
Stefan Odenbach Germany
Kenneth D. Kihm
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dove, D. B., et al.. (2025). Aerothermal Testing in a Pulsed Arc-Jet Tunnel With Laser Pre-Heating. 1 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2024). Pulsating Heat Pipe Performance Modeling with Liquid Metal Coolants Under Hypersonic Aerothermal Heating. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. 39(1). 185–198.
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Aaron, Doug, et al.. (2023). Studying voltage losses during discharge for biphenyl-sodium polysulfide organic redox flow batteries. Journal of Power Sources. 585. 233538–233538. 2 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sosan, Kenneth D. Kihm, Hong Goo Kim, et al.. (2014). How to Reliably Determine the Complex Refractive Index (RI) of Graphene by Using Two Independent Measurement Constraints. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6364–6364. 92 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2012). Opposite ReD-dependencies of nanofluid (Al2O3) thermal conductivities between heating and cooling modes. Applied Physics Letters. 101(8). 83111–83111. 11 indexed citations
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Cheon, Sosan, et al.. (2012). How to optically count graphene layers. Optics Letters. 37(18). 3765–3765. 22 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., Chan Hee Chon, Joon Sik Lee, & Stephen U. S. Choi. (2011). A new heat propagation velocity prevails over Brownian particle velocities in determining the thermal conductivities of nanofluids. Nanoscale Research Letters. 6(1). 361–361. 16 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2011). Microscopic Images of Graphene Layers of Different Thicknesses. Journal of Heat Transfer. 133(8). 2 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2009). Condensation of Sodium Vapor and High-Temperature Reaction With Quartz Pore Inner Surface. Journal of Heat Transfer. 131(8). 3 indexed citations
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Kim, Seonghwan, Anthony E. English, & Kenneth D. Kihm. (2008). Surface elasticity and charge concentration-dependent endothelial cell attachment to copolymer polyelectrolyte hydrogel. Acta Biomaterialia. 5(1). 144–151. 24 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2007). Full-field and real-time surface plasmon resonance imaging thermometry. Optics Letters. 32(23). 3456–3456. 17 indexed citations
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Choi, Chang Kyoung, Kenneth D. Kihm, & Anthony E. English. (2007). Optoelectric biosensor using indium-tin-oxide electrodes. Optics Letters. 32(11). 1405–1405. 16 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2006). MICRO-MORPHOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF LUNAR DUST. J.S.. 37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 2193. 22 indexed citations
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Choi, Chang Kyoung, et al.. (2006). An endothelial cell compatible biosensor fabricated using optically thin indium tin oxide silicon nitride electrodes. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 22(11). 2585–2590. 34 indexed citations
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Banerjee, Arindam & Kenneth D. Kihm. (2005). Experimental verification of near-wall hindered diffusion for the Brownian motion of nanoparticles using evanescent wave microscopy. Physical Review E. 72(4). 42101–42101. 88 indexed citations
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Seshadri, Satyanarayanan, et al.. (2004). Visualization of Defect Particle Transmission to the Major Flow of a Slit Virtual Impactor. Aerosol Science and Technology. 38(9). 870–880. 11 indexed citations
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Kim, Min Jun & Kenneth D. Kihm. (2004). Microscopic PIV measurements for electro-osmotic flows in PDMS microchannels. Journal of Visualization. 7(2). 111–118. 10 indexed citations
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Kihm, Kenneth D., et al.. (2004). Construction of Virtual Images for a Benchmark Test of 3D-PTV Algorithms for Flows. Han-guk marin enjinieoring hakoeji. 28(8). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Pratt, David M., Kenneth D. Kihm, & Larry W. Byrd. (2003). TED-AJ03-594 BINARY FLUID MIXTURE AND THERMOCAPILLARY EFFECTS ON THE WETTING CHARACTERISTICS OF A HEATED CURVED MENISCUS. 2003(6). 268.

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