Michele Guala

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Michele Guala is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele Guala has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Computational Mechanics, 42 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 34 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Michele Guala's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (42 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (33 papers) and Wind Energy Research and Development (31 papers). Michele Guala is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (42 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (33 papers) and Wind Energy Research and Development (31 papers). Michele Guala collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Michele Guala's co-authors include Ronald J. Adrian, Scott E. Hommema, Fotis Sotiropoulos, Kevin Howard, Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Alex Liberzon, Leonardo P. Chamorro, Mirko Musa, A. Tsinober and Jiarong Hong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Michele Guala

107 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Large-scale and very-large-scale motions in turbulent pip... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400
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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. Large-scale and very-large-scale motions in turbulent pipe flow
    2006 420 citations Michele Guala et al. Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michele Guala United States 34 1.8k 1.3k 1.2k 542 531 111 3.2k
J. C. R. Hunt United Kingdom 25 3.5k 2.0× 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.2× 526 1.0× 339 0.6× 67 5.1k
Vincenzo Armenio Italy 30 1.8k 1.0× 496 0.4× 466 0.4× 201 0.4× 425 0.8× 104 2.7k
Thorsten Stoesser United Kingdom 37 1.6k 0.9× 776 0.6× 580 0.5× 415 0.8× 1.9k 3.5× 137 3.9k
Karen A. Flack United States 31 2.7k 1.5× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.0× 657 1.2× 492 0.9× 73 3.7k
Bharathram Ganapathisubramani United Kingdom 40 4.7k 2.6× 2.2k 1.7× 2.0k 1.7× 930 1.7× 288 0.5× 207 5.7k
Rex E. Britter United Kingdom 36 876 0.5× 815 0.6× 2.4k 2.0× 795 1.5× 378 0.7× 64 4.6k
Markus Holzner Switzerland 29 1.3k 0.7× 363 0.3× 590 0.5× 214 0.4× 241 0.5× 117 2.7k
J.R. Chaplin United Kingdom 27 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 583 0.5× 170 0.3× 330 0.6× 106 3.6k
Scott Draper Australia 26 847 0.5× 929 0.7× 324 0.3× 106 0.2× 360 0.7× 139 2.3k
P.-Å. Krogstad Norway 19 1.6k 0.9× 735 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 424 0.8× 234 0.4× 32 2.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele Guala

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hong, Jiarong, et al.. (2024). Stochastic modal velocity field in rough-wall turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 999.
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Guala, Michele, et al.. (2024). Turbulence effect on disk settling dynamics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 992. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Jiaqi, Michele Guala, & Jiarong Hong. (2024). Field investigation of 3-D snow settling dynamics under weak atmospheric turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 997. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Jiaqi, Michele Guala, & Jiarong Hong. (2023). Snow Particle Analyzer for Simultaneous Measurements of Snow Density and Morphology. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(16). 10 indexed citations
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Guala, Michele, et al.. (2023). Multi-scale modelling predicts plant stem bending behaviour in response to wind to inform lodging resistance. Royal Society Open Science. 10(1). 221410–221410. 7 indexed citations
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Iungo, Giacomo Valerio, et al.. (2023). Grand-Scale Atmospheric Imaging Apparatus (GAIA) and Wind Lidar Multiscale Measurements in the Atmospheric Surface Layer. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(1). E121–E143. 3 indexed citations
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Silva, Charitha de, et al.. (2021). Prograde vortices, internal shear layers and the Taylor microscale in high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 920. 13 indexed citations
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Wu, Zi, Arvind Singh, Efi Foufoula‐Georgiou, et al.. (2021). A velocity-variation-based formulation for bedload particle hops in rivers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 912. 35 indexed citations
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Silva, Charitha de, et al.. (2020). On the mixing length eddies and logarithmic mean velocity profile in wall turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 887. 27 indexed citations
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Hill, Craig, Vincent S. Neary, Michele Guala, & Fotis Sotiropoulos. (2020). Performance and Wake Characterization of a Model Hydrokinetic Turbine: The Reference Model 1 (RM1) Dual Rotor Tidal Energy Converter. Energies. 13(19). 5145–5145. 10 indexed citations
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Silva, Charitha de, et al.. (2019). Defining the eddies responsible for the logarithmic velocity profile in wall turbulence. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Nemes, András, et al.. (2017). Snowflakes in the atmospheric surface layer: observation of particle–turbulence dynamics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 814. 592–613. 50 indexed citations
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Singh, Arvind, et al.. (2016). Exploring a semimechanistic episodic Langevin model for bed load transport: Emergence of normal and anomalous advection and diffusion regimes. Water Resources Research. 52(4). 2789–2801. 29 indexed citations
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Musa, Mirko, et al.. (2015). Local and non-local effects of spanwise finite perturbations in erodible river bathymetries. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Khosronejad, Ali, J. L. Kozarek, Miki Hondzo, et al.. (2014). Data-driven LES of turbulence and solute transport in a natural stream. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Hong, Jiarong, et al.. (2014). Natural snowfall reveals large-scale flow structures in the wake of a 2.5-MW wind turbine. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4216–4216. 102 indexed citations
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Guala, Michele, et al.. (2012). Spectral description of migrating bedforms and sediment transport. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Guala, Michele, et al.. (2010). Micrometeorological and morphological observations of surface hoar dynamics on a mountain snow cover. Water Resources Research. 46(4). 59 indexed citations
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Gromke, Christof, Michele Guala, Costantino Manes, Walter Benjamín, & Michael Lehning. (2009). Aerodynamic and surface characteristic length scales of snow covered flat planes. TU/e Research Portal. 136–140. 1 indexed citations

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