Lian Shen

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
165 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Lian Shen is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lian Shen has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Computational Mechanics, 65 papers in Oceanography and 46 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lian Shen's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (60 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (50 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (34 papers). Lian Shen is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (60 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (50 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (34 papers). Lian Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Lian Shen's co-authors include Di Yang, Dick K. P. Yue, Zixuan Yang, Xin Guo, Charles Meneveau, Bing‐Qing Deng, Kan Kan, Yuan Zheng, Fotis Sotiropoulos and Michael S. Triantafyllou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Lian Shen

155 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Energy loss mechanism due to tip leakage flow of axial flow pump as turbine under various operating conditions

2022 121 citations Kan Kan, Yuan Zheng 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
Lian Shen United States	31	1.4k	802	678	643	561	165	3.1k
Vincenzo Armenio Italy	30	1.8k 1.2×	322 0.4×	496 0.7×	383 0.6×	530 0.9×	104	2.7k
Scott Draper Australia	26	847 0.6×	351 0.4×	929 1.4×	185 0.3×	426 0.8×	139	2.3k
J.R. Chaplin United Kingdom	27	1.7k 1.2×	492 0.6×	1.4k 2.0×	218 0.3×	658 1.2×	106	3.6k
Guohai Dong China	36	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	422 0.6×	823 1.3×	2.3k 4.1×	259	5.0k
Satoru Komori Japan	34	2.2k 1.5×	601 0.7×	347 0.5×	605 0.9×	470 0.8×	149	3.3k
Sheng Dong China	25	336 0.2×	883 1.1×	278 0.4×	590 0.9×	540 1.0×	202	2.3k
George Constantinescu United States	48	2.8k 2.0×	341 0.4×	842 1.2×	508 0.8×	1.2k 2.2×	173	6.5k
Thomas A. A. Adcock United Kingdom	25	345 0.2×	976 1.2×	661 1.0×	474 0.7×	663 1.2×	122	2.3k
Sutanu Sarkar United States	28	2.2k 1.5×	923 1.2×	622 0.9×	986 1.5×	227 0.4×	96	3.3k
Henrik Bredmose Denmark	26	1.7k 1.2×	448 0.6×	653 1.0×	231 0.4×	938 1.7×	122	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Lian Shen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lian Shen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lian Shen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lian Shen 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 Lian Shen. Lian Shen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Santoni, Christian, et al.. (2025). Large-eddy simulations of a utility-scale offshore wind farm under neutral atmospheric conditions. Physical Review Fluids. 10(5).

Shen, Lian, et al.. (2025). Wind farm layout optimization based on dynamic Levy sparrow search algorithm: A multi-parameter analysis with active yaw control. Energy. 324. 135989–135989. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Fan, et al.. (2024). Experimental study on bioaerosols behavior and purification measures in a subway compartment. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22082–22082. 3 indexed citations

Shen, Lian, et al.. (2024). A heterogeneous graph neural network with automatic discovery of effective metapaths for drug–target interaction prediction. Future Generation Computer Systems. 160. 283–294. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Xizeng, et al.. (2024). Free-surface-induced ground effect for flapping swimmers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 997. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Zexia, et al.. (2023). Toward prediction of turbulent atmospheric flows over propagating oceanic waves via machine-learning augmented large-eddy simulation. Ocean Engineering. 280. 114759–114759. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Jingfeng, Heping Liu, & Lian Shen. (2023). An Observational and Modeling Study of Inverse‐Temperature Layer and Water Surface Heat Flux. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(16). 3 indexed citations

Shen, Lian, et al.. (2023). Direct numerical evidence of the Phillips initial stage and its antecedent during wind-wave generation. Communications Physics. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Heping, et al.. (2022). Spatial variability of global lake evaporation regulated by vertical vapor pressure difference. Environmental Research Letters. 17(5). 54006–54006. 2 indexed citations

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Lu, Song, Lian Shen, & Huaping Wang. (2022). SQUEEZING OF HYPERBOLIC POLARITONIC RAYS IN CYLINDRICAL LAMELLAR STRUCTURES. Electromagnetic waves. 174. 23–32. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Qing, et al.. (2022). Understanding Evaporation Duct Variabilities on Turbulent Eddy Scales. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 127(22). 3 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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Deng, Bing‐Qing, et al.. (2020). Numerical study of effect of wave phase on Reynolds stresses and turbulent kinetic energy in Langmuir turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 904. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Wen‐Li, et al.. (2019). A Numerical Study on the Development of Self-Similarity in a Wind Turbine Wake Using an Improved Pseudo-Spectral Large-Eddy Simulation Solver. Energies. 12(4). 643–643. 10 indexed citations

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Cheng, J., et al.. (2019). Numerical study on the dynamic process of single plume flow in thermal convection with polymers. Physics of Fluids. 31(2). 13 indexed citations

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Cheng, J., Hong-Na Zhang, Weihua Cai, et al.. (2019). Steady laminar plume generated from a heated line in polymer solutions. Physics of Fluids. 31(10). 8 indexed citations

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Shen, Lian, et al.. (2019). Influence of Calculation Domain Size on Numerical Simulation Results for Complex Terrain Wind Fields. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review. 12(2). 59–66. 2 indexed citations

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Hao, Xiuqing & Lian Shen. (2018). Zebra at sea: numerical modelling of the surface roughness induced by internal waves. AGUFM. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Shen, Lian, et al.. (2017). Numerical Simulation of Air Entrainment and Bubbles in Wave Breaking. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Yue, Dick K. P., et al.. (2011). Patterns and statistics of in-water polarization under conditions of linear and nonlinear ocean surface waves. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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