Qingdong Cai

996 total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 737 citations indexed

About

Qingdong Cai is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingdong Cai has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 737 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Computational Mechanics, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Qingdong Cai's work include Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (16 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (12 papers). Qingdong Cai is often cited by papers focused on Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies (16 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (15 papers) and Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (12 papers). Qingdong Cai collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Qingdong Cai's co-authors include Kun Xu, Chang Liu, Quanhua Sun, Shiyi Chen, Zhenhua Xia, Cunbiao Lee, Songze Chen, Yu Chen, Moran Wang and C. Shu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Qingdong Cai

35 papers receiving 704 citations

Hit Papers

A unified gas-kinetic sch... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150
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  1. A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows IV: Full Boltzmann and model equations
    2016 173 citations Chang Liu, Kun Xu et al. Journal of Computational Physics profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qingdong Cai China 15 637 311 136 121 69 36 737
Ramesh Balakrishnan United States 12 358 0.6× 254 0.8× 111 0.8× 60 0.5× 51 0.7× 34 519
Aldo Bonfiglioli Italy 14 466 0.7× 245 0.8× 279 2.1× 58 0.5× 38 0.6× 60 668
Juan-Chen Huang Taiwan 13 958 1.5× 920 3.0× 287 2.1× 84 0.7× 216 3.1× 37 1.3k
Christopher J. Steffen United States 10 1.0k 1.6× 496 1.6× 519 3.8× 75 0.6× 38 0.6× 29 1.3k
Wei Su China 18 445 0.7× 436 1.4× 107 0.8× 53 0.4× 75 1.1× 58 690
Stefan Hein Germany 15 517 0.8× 100 0.3× 333 2.4× 103 0.9× 69 1.0× 39 819
F. C. Dougherty United States 11 823 1.3× 212 0.7× 412 3.0× 45 0.4× 27 0.4× 26 1.0k
Oh-Hyun Rho South Korea 8 746 1.2× 441 1.4× 393 2.9× 25 0.2× 20 0.3× 24 871
Andrea Crivellini Italy 16 1.1k 1.7× 65 0.2× 229 1.7× 62 0.5× 51 0.7× 60 1.2k
Thomas J. Juliano United States 23 1.2k 1.9× 564 1.8× 571 4.2× 97 0.8× 138 2.0× 106 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingdong Cai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cai, Qingdong, et al.. (2025). Study on suppression of flow-induced noise in gas turbine fuel control valves. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation. 104. 102904–102904.
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Yang, Yantao, et al.. (2025). Detection and analysis of solitons-like coherent structures in free round jet flow. Physics of Fluids. 37(8). 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Yantao, et al.. (2024). A fourth-order compact finite volume method on unstructured grids for simulation of two-dimensional incompressible flow. Journal of Computational Physics. 520. 113461–113461. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Wenyuan, Shufan Zou, Qingdong Cai, & Yantao Yang. (2022). An explicit and non-iterative moving-least-squares immersed-boundary method with low boundary velocity error. Journal of Computational Physics. 474. 111803–111803. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Chang, et al.. (2020). A velocity-space adaptive unified gas kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows. Journal of Computational Physics. 415. 109535–109535. 30 indexed citations
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Yang, Yantao, et al.. (2019). Neural network as a function approximator and its application in solving differential equations. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. 40(2). 237–248. 24 indexed citations
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Xia, Zhenhua, et al.. (2018). Dissipation function in turbulent plane Poiseuille and Couette flows subject to spanwise rotations. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. 40(2). 185–192. 3 indexed citations
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Xia, Zhenhua, Yipeng Shi, Qingdong Cai, Minping Wan, & Shiyi Chen. (2017). Multiple states in turbulent plane Couette flow with spanwise rotation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 837. 477–490. 24 indexed citations
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Zhang, Pan, Zhenhua Xia, & Qingdong Cai. (2017). An h-adaptive implicit immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann flux solver based on JASMIN AMR package. Computers & Fluids. 161. 14–22. 2 indexed citations
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Xia, Zhenhua, et al.. (2016). Turbulent statistics and flow structures in spanwise-rotating turbulent plane Couette flows. Physical Review Fluids. 1(5). 19 indexed citations
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Xia, Zhenhua, et al.. (2015). Effects of the computational domain on the secondary flow in turbulent plane Couette flow. Chinese Physics B. 24(10). 104701–104701. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Yu, Qingdong Cai, Zhenhua Xia, Moran Wang, & Shiyi Chen. (2013). Momentum-exchange method in lattice Boltzmann simulations of particle-fluid interactions. Physical Review E. 88(1). 13303–13303. 92 indexed citations
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Chen, Shiyi, Yingchun Chen, Zhenhua Xia, et al.. (2013). Constrained large-eddy simulation and detached eddy simulation of flow past a commercial aircraft at 14 degrees angle of attack. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 56(2). 270–276. 29 indexed citations
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Chen, Songze, Kun Xu, Cunbiao Lee, & Qingdong Cai. (2012). A unified gas kinetic scheme with moving mesh and velocity space adaptation. Journal of Computational Physics. 231(20). 6643–6664. 118 indexed citations
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Chen, Yu, Qinjun Kang, Qingdong Cai, & Dongxiao Zhang. (2011). Lattice Boltzmann method on quadtree grids. Physical Review E. 83(2). 26707–26707. 20 indexed citations
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Chen, Songze, et al.. (2010). Gas-kinetic scheme with discontinuous derivative for low speed flow computation. Journal of Computational Physics. 230(5). 2045–2059. 9 indexed citations
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Cai, Qingdong, et al.. (2009). THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD BASED ON QUADTREE MESH. Modern Physics Letters B. 23(3). 289–292. 3 indexed citations
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Shu, C., Xiaodong Niu, Y. T. Chew, & Qingdong Cai. (2006). A fractional step lattice Boltzmann method for simulating high Reynolds number flows. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 72(2-6). 201–205. 34 indexed citations
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Cai, Qingdong, et al.. (2005). THE PHYSICAL ORIGIN OF SEVERE LOW-FREQUENCY PRESSURE FLUCTUATIONS IN GIANT FRANCIS TURBINES. Modern Physics Letters B. 19(28n29). 1527–1530. 26 indexed citations
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Cai, Qingdong, et al.. (1998). The topology of the sectional streamlines. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. 3(4). 203–206. 2 indexed citations

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