Mingfa Yao

15.1k citations

367 papers · 12.8k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 57

Impact in

Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes top 0.01%
- Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
Automotive Engineering top 0.05%
- Vehicle emissions and performance

Papers in ⓘ

Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes 322
- Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies 322
Computational Mechanics 217
- Combustion and flame dynamics 203
- Heat transfer and supercritical fluids 31

Co-authors: Haifeng Liu (168 shared papers)Zunqing Zheng (151 shared papers)Hu Wang (122 shared papers)Zhaolei Zheng (9 shared papers)Rolf D. Reitz (16 shared papers)Chia-fon F. Lee (3 shared papers)Chao Jin (15 shared papers)Jing Ji (1 shared paper)
Journals: Fuel (72 papers)SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series (41 papers)Applied Thermal Engineering (28 papers)Energy (25 papers)Energy & Fuels (22 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Saudi Arabia

In The Last Decade

Mingfa Yao

354 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Progress in the production and application of n-butanol as a biofuel 2011 · 799 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2011 Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
2009 Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

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1	Progress and recent trends in homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines Progress in Energy and Combustion Science ·Mingfa Yao, Zhaolei Zheng, Haifeng Liu Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1028
2	Progress in the production and application of n-butanol as a biofuel Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·Chao Jin, Mingfa Yao, Haifeng Liu, Chia-fon F. Lee, Jing Ji Hit paper breakdown →	2011	799
3	Experimental study of n-butanol additive and multi-injection on HD diesel engine performance and emissions Fuel ·Mingfa Yao, Hu Wang, Zunqing Zheng, Yue Yan	2010	324
4	A Review on the Pd-Based Three-Way Catalyst Catalysis Reviews ·Jihui Wang, Hong Chen, Zhicheng Hu, Mingfa Yao, Yongdan Li	2014	261
5	Effect of two-stage injection on combustion and emissions under high EGR rate on a diesel engine by fueling blends of diesel/gasoline, diesel/n-butanol, diesel/gasoline/n-butanol and pure diesel Energy Conversion and Management ·Zunqing Zheng, Yue Lang, Haifeng Liu, Yuxuan Zhu, Xiaofan Zhong, Mingfa Yao	2014	199
6	Development of an n-heptane-n-butanol-PAH mechanism and its application for combustion and soot prediction Combustion and Flame ·Hu Wang, Rolf D. Reitz, Mingfa Yao, Binbin Yang, Qi Jiao, Lu Qiu	2012	191
7	Experimental investigation of the effects of diesel injection strategy on gasoline/diesel dual-fuel combustion Applied Energy ·Shuaiying Ma, Zunqing Zheng, Haifeng Liu, Quanchang Zhang, Mingfa Yao	2013	186
8	Effects of diesel/PODE (polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers) blends on combustion and emission characteristics in a heavy duty diesel engine Fuel ·Jialin Liu, Hu Wang, Ying Li, Zunqing Zheng, Zhenzhen Xue, Hongyan Shang, Mingfa Yao	2016	180
9	Experimental study on combustion and emission characteristics of a diesel engine fueled with 2,5-dimethylfuran–diesel, n-butanol–diesel and gasoline–diesel blends Energy ·Guisheng Chen, Yinggang Shen, Quanchang Zhang, Mingfa Yao, Zunqing Zheng, Haifeng Liu	2013	176
10	A reduced toluene reference fuel chemical kinetic mechanism for combustion and polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbon predictions Combustion and Flame ·Hu Wang, Mingfa Yao, Zongyu Yue, Ming Jia, Rolf D. Reitz	2015	172
11	Development of a Reduced Primary Reference Fuel Mechanism for Internal Combustion Engine Combustion Simulations Energy & Fuels ·Hu Wang, Mingfa Yao, Rolf D. Reitz	2013	165
12	Experimental study on combustion and emissions of dual fuel RCCI mode fueled with biodiesel/n-butanol, biodiesel/2,5-dimethylfuran and biodiesel/ethanol Energy ·Zunqing Zheng, Mingtao Xia, Haifeng Liu, Xiaofeng Wang, Mingfa Yao	2018	156
13	Experimental study on diesel conventional and low temperature combustion by fueling four isomers of butanol Fuel ·Zunqing Zheng, Changle Li, Haifeng Liu, Yan Zhang, Xiaofan Zhong, Mingfa Yao	2014	155
14	Effects of n-butanol, 2-butanol, and methyl octynoate addition to diesel fuel on combustion and emissions over a wide range of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) rates Applied Energy ·Haifeng Liu, Shanju Li, Zunqing Zheng, Jia Xu, Mingfa Yao	2013	155
15	Experimental study of RCCI combustion and load extension in a compression ignition engine fueled with gasoline and PODE Fuel ·Laihui Tong, Hu Wang, Zunqing Zheng, Rolf D. Reitz, Mingfa Yao	2016	147
16	Experimental and simulation investigation of the combustion characteristics and emissions using n -butanol/biodiesel dual-fuel injection on a diesel engine Energy ·Haifeng Liu, Xin Wang, Zunqing Zheng, Jingbo Gu, Hu Wang, Mingfa Yao	2014	139
17	Study of the control strategies on soot reduction under early-injection conditions on a diesel engine Fuel ·Haifeng Liu, Shuaiying Ma, Zhong Zhang, Zunqing Zheng, Mingfa Yao	2014	135
18	Comparison of Ethanol and Butanol as Additives in Soybean Biodiesel Using a Constant Volume Combustion Chamber Energy & Fuels ·Haifeng Liu, Chia-fon Lee, Ming Huo, Mingfa Yao	2011	129
19	Experimental study of n-butanol addition on performance and emissions with diesel low temperature combustion Energy ·Quanchang Zhang, Mingfa Yao, Zunqing Zheng, Haifeng Liu, Jia Xu	2012	129
20	Experimental study on combustion and emissions of n-butanol/biodiesel under both blended fuel mode and dual fuel RCCI mode Fuel ·Zunqing Zheng, Mingtao Xia, Haifeng Liu, Ran Shang, Guixiang Ma, Mingfa Yao	2018	124

About Mingfa Yao

Mingfa Yao is a scholar working on Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics, Automotive Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry, having authored 367 papers that have together received 12.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies (322 papers), Combustion and flame dynamics (203 papers), Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (116 papers), Vehicle emissions and performance (107 papers), Biodiesel Production and Applications (106 papers), Combustion and Detonation Processes (37 papers), Heat transfer and supercritical fluids (31 papers) and Rocket and propulsion systems research (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (10.5k citations), Automotive Engineering (4.0k citations), Computational Mechanics (6.0k citations), Biomedical Engineering (5.7k citations) and Catalysis (543 citations). Mingfa Yao has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Saudi Arabia. Frequent co-authors include Haifeng Liu, Zunqing Zheng, Hu Wang, Zhaolei Zheng, Rolf D. Reitz, Chia-fon F. Lee, Chao Jin, Jing Ji, Qinglong Tang and Quanchang Zhang. Their work appears in journals such as Fuel, SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series, Applied Thermal Engineering, Energy and Energy & Fuels.

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