Longhua Hu

12.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
356 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Longhua Hu is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Longhua Hu has authored 356 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 264 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 112 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 109 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Longhua Hu's work include Fire dynamics and safety research (264 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (112 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (108 papers). Longhua Hu is often cited by papers focused on Fire dynamics and safety research (264 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (112 papers) and Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics (108 papers). Longhua Hu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Longhua Hu's co-authors include R. Huo, Xiaolei Zhang, Fei Tang, W. K. Chow, L.F. Chen, Kaihua Lu, Long Wu, Michael A. Delichatsios, Xiepeng Sun and Wei Peng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Longhua Hu

336 papers receiving 10.0k 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.

Pool fire dynamics: Principles, models and recent advances

2023 118 citations Yuhang Chen, Xiaolei Zhang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Longhua Hu China	54	8.4k	4.8k	4.0k	2.3k	1.5k	356	10.2k
Wei Peng China	26	684 0.1×	673 0.1×	394 0.1×	778 0.3×	132 0.1×	175	3.5k
Thomas G. Cleary United States	41	831 0.1×	208 0.0×	544 0.1×	247 0.1×	154 0.1×	201	5.4k
Klaus Willeke United States	46	101 0.0×	856 0.2×	522 0.1×	234 0.1×	1.1k 0.7×	210	6.9k
Alvin C.K. Lai Hong Kong	41	176 0.0×	1.1k 0.2×	167 0.0×	257 0.1×	1.7k 1.2×	123	5.5k
Yannis Hardalupas United Kingdom	34	262 0.0×	810 0.2×	129 0.0×	566 0.2×	223 0.2×	209	4.1k
H. K. Versteeg United Kingdom	16	189 0.0×	425 0.1×	128 0.0×	787 0.3×	577 0.4×	41	4.0k
Songlin Liu China	29	145 0.0×	91 0.0×	176 0.0×	718 0.3×	91 0.1×	268	3.2k
I. Eames United Kingdom	38	46 0.0×	802 0.2×	159 0.0×	524 0.2×	503 0.3×	175	6.1k
David Wood Canada	46	34 0.0×	254 0.1×	176 0.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	315	7.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Longhua Hu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Longhua Hu

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tang, Fei, et al.. (2025). Experimental study on thermal runaway evolution and toxicity hazard of lithium-ion batteries in a tunnel under longitudinal air flow. Journal of Energy Storage. 114. 115651–115651. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yunsong, Xiepeng Sun, Yuhang Chen, Longhua Hu, & Xiaolei Zhang. (2025). Experimental and numerical studies on flame radius, temperature profile and heat flux of axi-symmetric ceiling fires under various sub-atmospheric pressures. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 211. 109697–109697.

Zhu, Nannan, et al.. (2025). Effect of crosswind on the blowout limit of hydrogen-blended natural gas horizontal jet flame. Energy. 317. 134703–134703. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Yuxuan, et al.. (2024). Downward flame spread over electrical wires in quiescent low pressures: Similarity analysis and comparison with partial-gravity experiments. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 40(1-4). 105766–105766. 7 indexed citations

Zhu, Nan, Yuxuan Ma, Yajun Huang, et al.. (2024). Effect of the sample width and concurrent airflow velocity on heat and mass transfer behaviors in steady flame spread stage. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 156. 107661–107661. 1 indexed citations

Tang, Fei, et al.. (2024). Study on the flame radiative heat transfer and near-field radiation heat flux predictive model of vehicle fires in a tunnel. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 228. 125666–125666. 17 indexed citations

Ma, Yuxuan, Qiang Wang, Zhonghua Li, et al.. (2024). Downward flame spread over thin electrical wires in quiescent normal- and hypergravity environments: Effects of gravity level, applied current and wire configuration. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 40(1-4). 105773–105773. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Xiepeng, Yujie Lin, Dongmei Li, et al.. (2024). Experimental study on the flame trajectory evolution of horizontal jet fires under reduced pressures. Fire Safety Journal. 149. 104238–104238. 4 indexed citations

Fang, Xiang, et al.. (2024). Experimental investigation on thermal radiation of compartment fire under fuel-controlled condition. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 53. 102679–102679. 2 indexed citations

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Han, Yu, Xiepeng Sun, Xiaolei Zhang, et al.. (2024). Characteristic parameter evolutions and fire smoke patterns of the wall fire plume: Experimental and theoretical analysis. Journal of Building Engineering. 88. 109142–109142. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiepeng, Fei Ren, Xiaotao Chen, et al.. (2024). Temperature evolution within fire compartment, external flame structure characteristic and merging behavior with multiple-openings. Applied Energy. 373. 123855–123855. 1 indexed citations

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Delichatsios, Michael A., Fei Tang, Peihong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Flame height and oscillation frequency of rectangular-source fires at different separation distances from a facade wall. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 40(1-4). 105239–105239. 4 indexed citations

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Zhu, Nan, et al.. (2024). Wind aided fuel burning rate under external radiation: Heat and mass transfer analysis. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 208. 109374–109374. 2 indexed citations

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Ma, Yuxuan, Y. Konno, Qiang Wang, et al.. (2023). Effect of solid surface curvature and wall heat loss on the downward flame spread along the edge of thin PMMA sheets. Combustion and Flame. 254. 112837–112837. 10 indexed citations

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Lin, Yujie, et al.. (2023). Experimental study of downstream local heat flux of pool fires under relatively strong cross flows. International Journal of Thermal Sciences. 196. 108710–108710. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiepeng, et al.. (2023). Experimental study on the heat flux profile upon the building facade of the window-ejected fire plume. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 214. 124391–124391. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Yanling, Ziwen Wang, Qiong Liu, et al.. (2021). Molecular Mechanisms of Colistin Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 11. 673503–673503. 27 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaolei, Longhua Hu, Qiang Wang, et al.. (2015). A mathematical model for flame volume estimation based on flame height of turbulent gaseous fuel jet. Energy Conversion and Management. 103. 276–283. 19 indexed citations

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Hu, Longhua. (2009). Experimental study on the entrainment mass flow rate across the smoke layer interface during horizontal spread in a long channel. JUSTC. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Longhua. (2006). Experiment of Fire Smoke Temperature and Layer Stratification Height Distribution Characteristic Along Highway Tunnel. Zhongguo gonglu xuebao. 7 indexed citations

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