Sean Symon

759 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 606 citations indexed

About

Sean Symon is a scholar working on Computational Mechanics, Environmental Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Symon has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 606 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Computational Mechanics, 5 papers in Environmental Engineering and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sean Symon's work include Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (11 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (6 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (5 papers). Sean Symon is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (11 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis (6 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (5 papers). Sean Symon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and France. Sean Symon's co-authors include David Quéré, Christophe Clanet, Anaïs Gauthier, Simon J. Illingworth, Beverley McKeon, Denis Sipp, Ivan Marušič, Peter J. Schmid, Simon Lapointe and Bharathram Ganapathisubramani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and AIAA Journal.

In The Last Decade

Sean Symon

13 papers receiving 601 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.

Water impacting on superhydrophobic macrotextures

2015 398 citations Anaïs Gauthier, Sean Symon et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Symon United Kingdom	8	507	356	97	78	61	15	606
Tak Shing Chan Norway	10	328 0.6×	143 0.4×	37 0.4×	38 0.5×	36 0.6×	25	422
Roeland C. A. van der Veen Netherlands	8	637 1.3×	384 1.1×	31 0.3×	38 0.5×	180 3.0×	9	776
Julien R. Landel United Kingdom	12	255 0.5×	119 0.3×	49 0.5×	28 0.4×	36 0.6×	27	385
Sander Wildeman Netherlands	7	193 0.4×	153 0.4×	65 0.7×	25 0.3×	98 1.6×	10	377
Julie Crockett United States	15	403 0.8×	295 0.8×	72 0.7×	63 0.8×	74 1.2×	43	575
Zijing Ding China	15	538 1.1×	92 0.3×	38 0.4×	22 0.3×	32 0.5×	60	632
Saurabh Nath United States	11	208 0.4×	520 1.5×	412 4.2×	87 1.1×	90 1.5×	18	653
A. Medina Mexico	12	304 0.6×	77 0.2×	29 0.3×	47 0.6×	38 0.6×	60	486
K. Takehara Japan	5	209 0.4×	107 0.3×	11 0.1×	16 0.2×	105 1.7×	21	334
Alejandro M. Briones United States	17	686 1.4×	77 0.2×	239 2.5×	10 0.1×	154 2.5×	68	835

Countries citing papers authored by Sean Symon

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Symon

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2025). Effects of fetch length on turbulent boundary layer recovery past a step change in surface roughness. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1009.

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2025). Aeroelastic Wing Performance in High-Intensity Freestream Turbulence: Integral Length Scale Effects. AIAA Journal. 63(5). 1789–1799. 1 indexed citations

3.

Burton, T. P., et al.. (2025). Resolvent-based optimization for approximating the statistics of a chaotic Lorenz system. Physical review. E. 111(2). 25104–25104.

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Ganapathisubramani, Bharathram, et al.. (2024). The effect of variations in experimental and computational fidelity on data assimilation approaches. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. 38(3). 431–450. 1 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2023). Use of eddy viscosity in resolvent analysis of turbulent channel flow. Physical Review Fluids. 8(6). 24 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2023). Effects of integral length scale variations on the stall characteristics of a wing at high free-stream turbulence conditions. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 974. 6 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, Simon J. Illingworth, & Ivan Marušič. (2021). Energy transfer in turbulent channel flows and implications for resolvent modelling. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 911. 43 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2021). Energy transfer mechanisms and resolvent analysis in the cylinder wake. Physical Review Fluids. 6(2). 17 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2020). Energy transfer mechanisms and resolvent analysis in the cylinder wake. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, Simon J. Illingworth, & Ivan Marušič. (2020). Large-scale structures predicted by linear models of wall-bounded turbulence. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1522(1). 12006–12006. 5 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, Denis Sipp, Peter J. Schmid, & Beverley McKeon. (2019). Mean and Unsteady Flow Reconstruction Using Data-Assimilation and Resolvent Analysis. AIAA Journal. 58(2). 575–588. 16 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, Denis Sipp, & Beverley McKeon. (2019). A tale of two airfoils: resolvent-based modelling of an oscillator versus an amplifier from an experimental mean. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 881. 51–83. 33 indexed citations

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Symon, Sean, et al.. (2017). Data assimilation of mean velocity from 2D PIV measurements of flow over an idealized airfoil. Experiments in Fluids. 58(5). 54 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Anaïs, Sean Symon, Christophe Clanet, & David Quéré. (2015). Water impacting on superhydrophobic macrotextures. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8001–8001. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lapointe, Simon, et al.. (2014). Influence of a local change of depth on the behavior of walking oil drops. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. 54. 237–246. 7 indexed citations

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