Ke‐Qing Xia

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
149 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Ke‐Qing Xia is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ke‐Qing Xia has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Computational Mechanics, 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 56 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ke‐Qing Xia's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (121 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (56 papers). Ke‐Qing Xia is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (121 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (65 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (56 papers). Ke‐Qing Xia collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ke‐Qing Xia's co-authors include Detlef Lohse, Heng-Dong Xi, Chao Sun, Quan Zhou, Penger Tong, Sheng‐Qi Zhou, Shi‐Di Huang, Rui Ni, Siu Lam and Xiaodong Shang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Ke‐Qing Xia

141 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

Small-Scale Properties of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ke‐Qing Xia Hong Kong	46	5.0k	2.6k	1.7k	1.3k	872	149	6.0k
Siegfried Großmann Germany	35	4.3k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	525 0.6×	103	5.3k
Alan R. Kerstein United States	38	4.5k 0.9×	395 0.2×	952 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	441 0.5×	170	6.3k
P. A. Davidson United Kingdom	26	1.8k 0.4×	310 0.1×	475 0.3×	550 0.4×	733 0.8×	83	3.1k
Joseph Niemela Italy	26	1.5k 0.3×	622 0.2×	425 0.3×	605 0.5×	239 0.3×	84	2.6k
Juan M. López United States	35	3.2k 0.6×	186 0.1×	370 0.2×	771 0.6×	343 0.4×	187	4.0k
P. Tabeling France	34	1.6k 0.3×	321 0.1×	268 0.2×	843 0.7×	213 0.2×	73	3.4k
André Thess Germany	30	1.6k 0.3×	328 0.1×	250 0.1×	708 0.6×	886 1.0×	159	2.9k
Victor Steinberg Israel	49	3.5k 0.7×	341 0.1×	106 0.1×	1.8k 1.4×	463 0.5×	180	7.7k
Marc Avila Germany	24	1.4k 0.3×	569 0.2×	212 0.1×	244 0.2×	173 0.2×	64	2.0k
Daniel W. Mackowski United States	31	547 0.1×	1.7k 0.7×	297 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	57 0.1×	84	4.6k

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Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2025). Quantitative shadowgraphy for heat transport measurement in turbulent thermal convection. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 241. 126767–126767. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Fang, et al.. (2025). Restoration of Axisymmetric Flow Structure in Turbulent Thermal Convection by Polymer Additives. Physical Review Letters. 134(8). 84001–84001. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Liqiu, et al.. (2024). Correspondence between flow structures and heat transfer in regime transitions in turbulent rotating thermal convection. Physical Review Fluids. 9(12).

Xia, Ke‐Qing, et al.. (2023). An experimental study of off-centred rotating thermal convection: a laboratory model for the tidal effects. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 966. 1 indexed citations

Xia, Ke‐Qing, et al.. (2022). On the centrifugal effect in turbulent rotating thermal convection: onset and heat transport. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 938. 10 indexed citations

Zhang, Lu, et al.. (2022). Exploring the plume and shear effects in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection with effective horizontal buoyancy under streamwise and spanwise geometrical confinements. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 940. 11 indexed citations

Chong, Kai Leong, et al.. (2019). Quasistatic magnetoconvection: heat transport enhancement and boundary layer crossing. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 870. 519–542. 32 indexed citations

Chong, Kai Leong & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2016). Exploring the severely confined regime in Rayleigh–Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 805. 46 indexed citations

Huang, Shi‐Di & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2016). Effects of geometric confinement in quasi-2-D turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 794. 639–654. 50 indexed citations

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Ni, Rui, Shi‐Di Huang, & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2015). Reversals of the large-scale circulation in quasi-2D Rayleigh–Bénard convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 778. 52 indexed citations

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Wei, Ping, et al.. (2014). Heat transport properties of plates with smooth and rough surfaces in turbulent thermal convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 740. 28–46. 48 indexed citations

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Kaczorowski, Matthias & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2013). Turbulent flow in the bulk of Rayleigh–Bénard convection: small-scale properties in a cubic cell. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 722. 596–617. 67 indexed citations

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Wei, Ping, et al.. (2013). Dynamics of the large-scale circulation in high-Prandtl-number turbulent thermal convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 717. 322–346. 19 indexed citations

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Wei, Ping, Rui Ni, & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2011). Enhanced and Reduced Heat Transport in Turbulent Thermal Convection with Polymer Additives. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 64. 2 indexed citations

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Xi, Heng-Dong & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2008). Flow mode transitions in turbulent thermal convection. Physics of Fluids. 20(5). 106 indexed citations

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Zhou, Quan, Chao Sun, & Ke‐Qing Xia. (2007). Morphological Evolution of Thermal Plumes in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection. Physical Review Letters. 98(7). 74501–74501. 86 indexed citations

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Fu, Qiang, et al.. (2004). RELATION BETWEEN COHERENT STRUCTURE AND SCALING LAW IN RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORMATION. 1 indexed citations

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Ching, Emily S. C., et al.. (2004). Velocity and temperature cross-scaling in turbulent thermal convection. Journal of Turbulence. 5. 11 indexed citations

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Guilkey, James, Todd Harman, Ke‐Qing Xia, B. A. Kashiwa, & Patrick McMurtry. (2003). An Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach For Large Deformation Fluid StructureInteraction Problems, Part 1 : Algorithm Development. WIT transactions on the built environment. 71. 30 indexed citations

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Fu, et al.. (2001). WAVELET ANALYSIS OF MULTIFRACTAL AND ITS APPLICATION TO PROCESSING TEMPERATURE DATA IN RAYLEIGH-BENARD CONVECTION. 水动力学研究与进展：英文版. 34–41. 1 indexed citations

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