Vinod Narayanan

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Vinod Narayanan is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Vinod Narayanan has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 68 papers in Computational Mechanics and 20 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Vinod Narayanan's work include Heat Transfer and Optimization (50 papers), Heat Transfer Mechanisms (47 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (44 papers). Vinod Narayanan is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Optimization (50 papers), Heat Transfer Mechanisms (47 papers) and Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (44 papers). Vinod Narayanan collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Australia. Vinod Narayanan's co-authors include J. Seyed-Yagoobi, R. H. Page, Matthew Francis, R. P. Taylor, Michael J. Taormina, Benjamín Alemán, Heiner Linke, Erfan Rasouli, Deborah V. Pence and Vishal Patil and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Vinod Narayanan

113 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Self-Propelled Leidenfrost Droplets

2006 437 citations Heiner Linke, Benjamín Alemán et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vinod Narayanan United States	17	890	782	292	242	204	123	1.5k
Chung-Lung Chen United States	22	890 1.0×	752 1.0×	459 1.6×	332 1.4×	547 2.7×	95	1.8k
Chan Byon South Korea	23	997 1.1×	517 0.7×	115 0.4×	413 1.7×	208 1.0×	42	1.4k
Pallab Sinha Mahapatra India	26	834 0.9×	840 1.1×	494 1.7×	975 4.0×	375 1.8×	93	1.9k
Sang Yong Lee South Korea	24	1.0k 1.1×	780 1.0×	145 0.5×	583 2.4×	254 1.2×	104	1.9k
Zilong Deng China	18	714 0.8×	361 0.5×	85 0.3×	327 1.4×	239 1.2×	58	1.2k
Arvind Pattamatta India	24	823 0.9×	605 0.8×	156 0.5×	508 2.1×	247 1.2×	104	1.5k
Haiwang Li China	21	909 1.0×	622 0.8×	47 0.2×	455 1.9×	339 1.7×	150	1.6k
John D. Bernardin United States	13	570 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	535 1.8×	159 0.7×	355 1.7×	30	1.6k
Chun‐Mei Wu China	21	830 0.9×	817 1.0×	35 0.1×	358 1.5×	149 0.7×	125	1.6k
M.Z. Podowski United States	20	768 0.9×	742 0.9×	96 0.3×	754 3.1×	142 0.7×	79	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vinod Narayanan

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Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2025). Assessment of the relative impacts of feature accuracy and surface roughness on fluid flow across additively manufactured pin arrays. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress. 64. 103769–103769. 1 indexed citations

Ellis, Matthew J., et al.. (2025). Air-to-air multi-function heat pumps for combined space conditioning and domestic water heating. Energy Reports. 14. 3536–3546.

Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2025). Experimental characterization of an additively manufactured heat exchanger for high temperature and pressure applications. Applied Thermal Engineering. 264. 125412–125412. 7 indexed citations

Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2024). Micro-laminated pin array solar receivers for high flux heating of supercritical carbon dioxide part 2: On-sun performance. Solar Energy. 277. 112700–112700.

Fronk, Brian M., et al.. (2024). Micro-laminated pin array solar receivers for high flux heating of supercritical carbon dioxide part 1: Design and fabrication methods. Solar Energy. 273. 112403–112403. 1 indexed citations

Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2024). Enhanced heat transfer in microgravity from asymmetric sawtooth microstructure with engineered cavities. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 222. 125158–125158.

Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2024). Flight performance of helium bubbler provided in LOX tank pressurisation system of cryogenic propulsion stage. Cryogenics. 138. 103798–103798. 1 indexed citations

Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2023). Cost of Using Laser Powder Bed Fusion to Fabricate a Molten Salt-to-Supercritial Carbon Dioxide Heat Exchanger for Concentrating Solar Power. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. 11(3). 1108–1118. 4 indexed citations

Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2023). VISUALIZATION OF VAPOR MORPHOLOGY AND MOTION FROM AN ENGINEERED SURFACE IN MICROGRAVITY. 10–10.

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Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2023). A Scalable Compact Additively Manufactured Molten Salt to Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Heat Exchanger for Solar Thermal Application. Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. 146(1). 6 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2023). Effect of oblique and non-uniform wall suction and injection on the characteristics of flat-plate boundary layer. AIP conference proceedings. 2981. 90001–90001. 3 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2020). Innovative cooling strategies: Dairy cow responses and water and energy use. Journal of Dairy Science. 103(6). 5440–5454. 17 indexed citations

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Raj, R. Edwin, et al.. (2020). Analytical and experimental data of liquid oxygen tank pressurisation system during stage hot test. Applied Thermal Engineering. 176. 115406–115406. 7 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2019). Convective Heat Transfer between Liquid Argon Flows and Heated Carbon Nanotube Arrays using Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics. 12(3). 971–980. 5 indexed citations

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Rasouli, Erfan, et al.. (2017). Pitch and aspect ratio effects on single-phase heat transfer through microscale pin fin heat sinks. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 118. 416–428. 64 indexed citations

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Abishek, S., Ramesh Narayanaswamy, & Vinod Narayanan. (2014). Suitability Evaluation of Bubble Departure Diameter and Frequency Models for the Simulation of Subcooled Confined Jet Impingement Boiling. 2 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Vinod, et al.. (2014). A Generalized Critical Heat Flux Correlation for Submerged and Free Surface Jet Impingement Boiling. Journal of Heat Transfer. 136(9). 7 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Vinod. (2007). Oscillatory thermal structures in a reattaching jet flow. Journal of Visualization. 10(4). 389–396. 2 indexed citations

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Linke, Heiner, Benjamín Alemán, Michael J. Taormina, et al.. (2006). Self-Propelled Leidenfrost Droplets. Physical Review Letters. 96(15). 154502–154502. 437 indexed citations breakdown →

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Narayanan, Vinod, J. Seyed-Yagoobi, & R. H. Page. (1996). Comparison of Heat Transfer Characteristics of a Slot Jet Reattachment Nozzle and a Conventional Slot Jet Nozzle. 151–157. 2 indexed citations

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