Ruina Xu

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Ruina Xu is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruina Xu has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 62 papers in Computational Mechanics and 45 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ruina Xu's work include CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (43 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (27 papers) and Heat transfer and supercritical fluids (25 papers). Ruina Xu is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions (43 papers), Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (27 papers) and Heat transfer and supercritical fluids (25 papers). Ruina Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Ruina Xu's co-authors include Peixue Jiang, Feng Luo, Fuzhen Zhang, Yinhai Zhu, Zhilong Cheng, Wei Peng, Rong Li, Gaoyuan Wang, Liaofei Yin and Bo Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

Ruina Xu

136 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Review on active thermal protection and its heat transfer... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Review on active thermal protection and its heat transfer for airbreathing hypersonic vehicles
    2018 275 citations Ruina Xu, Peixue Jiang et al. profile →

Peers

Ruina Xu
Liang Gong China
Xi Jiang United Kingdom
Peixue Jiang China
Ya‐Ling He China
Saiied M. Aminossadati Australia
Şule Ergün Türkiye
Boqi Xiao China
Hadi Hajibeygi Netherlands
Sassi Ben Nasrallah Tunisia
Liang Gong China
Ruina Xu
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Countries citing papers authored by Ruina Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ruina Xu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ruina Xu

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Jingyu, et al.. (2025). Pyrolysis characteristics and mechanism of oil shale in the Songliao Basin of China. Fuel. 386. 134251–134251. 6 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruina, et al.. (2025). Energy evolution during in-situ conversion of low-maturity shales. Energy. 317. 134593–134593.
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Xu, Ruina, et al.. (2025). Integrated data-driven local characteristic general framework for heat exchanger modeling for supercritical pressure fluids. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 243. 126882–126882. 3 indexed citations
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Jiang, Peixue, et al.. (2025). Capillary‐Driven Transport and Precipitation of Salt in Heterogeneous Structures During Carbon Sequestration. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(13). 2 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yang, et al.. (2024). Competitive adsorption-diffusion coupling process of helium-nitrogen mixture in shale kerogen nano-slit. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 225. 125408–125408.
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Wang, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Experimental investigation of salt precipitation behavior and its impact on injectivity under variable injection operating conditions. Gas Science and Engineering. 121. 205198–205198. 10 indexed citations
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Jiang, Peixue, et al.. (2023). Restricted CO2/CH4 diffusion in nanopores: A quantitative framework to characterize nanoconfinement effect of shale organic pore. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 210. 124178–124178. 9 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruina, et al.. (2023). NMR Measurements for Gas Adsorption Characterization on Shale: State of the Art and Perspectives. Energy & Fuels. 37(13). 8824–8835. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruina, et al.. (2023). Accelerating turbulence in heated micron tubes at supercritical pressure. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 972. 9 indexed citations
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Duan, Chuanhua, et al.. (2022). Experimental Study on Capillary Imbibition of Shale Oil in Nanochannels. Energy & Fuels. 36(10). 5267–5275. 21 indexed citations
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Zhang, Fuzhen, et al.. (2022). Analysis and optimization of energy flow in the full chain of carbon dioxide capture and oil recovery. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Feng, et al.. (2020). Pore-scale investigation of CO2/oil exsolution in CO2 huff-n-puff for enhanced oil recovery. Physics of Fluids. 32(9). 36 indexed citations
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He, Di, Peixue Jiang, & Ruina Xu. (2019). Pore-Scale Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Supercritical CO2 Injection Rate and Surface Wettability on Salt Precipitation. Environmental Science & Technology. 53(24). 14744–14751. 63 indexed citations
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Chen, Xue, et al.. (2017). Water Droplet Spreading and Wicking on Nanostructured Surfaces. Langmuir. 33(27). 6701–6707. 55 indexed citations
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Li, Rong, Peixue Jiang, Di He, Xue Chen, & Ruina Xu. (2017). Experimental Investigation on the Behavior of Supercritical CO2 during Reservoir Depressurization. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(15). 8869–8876. 17 indexed citations
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Xu, Ruina, et al.. (2017). Effect of Mineral Dissolution/Precipitation and CO2 Exsolution on CO2 transport in Geological Carbon Storage. Accounts of Chemical Research. 50(9). 2056–2066. 89 indexed citations
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Li, Rong, Peixue Jiang, Cheng Gao, et al.. (2016). Experimental Investigation of Silica-Based Nanofluid Enhanced Oil Recovery: The Effect of Wettability Alteration. Energy & Fuels. 31(1). 188–197. 92 indexed citations

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