Xiang Rao

1.2k total citations
72 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Xiang Rao is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Ocean Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiang Rao has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 44 papers in Ocean Engineering and 20 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Xiang Rao's work include Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (46 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (25 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (24 papers). Xiang Rao is often cited by papers focused on Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (46 papers), Drilling and Well Engineering (25 papers) and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods (24 papers). Xiang Rao collaborates with scholars based in China, Saudi Arabia and United States. Xiang Rao's co-authors include Hui Zhao, Linsong Cheng, Renyi Cao, Pin Jia, Yunfeng Xu, Yina Liu, Sidong Fang, Hao Xiong, Yonghui Wu and Liu Deng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and Fuel.

In The Last Decade

Xiang Rao

61 papers receiving 841 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiang Rao China 19 636 557 285 164 145 72 865
Piyang Liu China 12 368 0.6× 412 0.7× 148 0.5× 161 1.0× 83 0.6× 53 655
Rami M. Younis United States 17 808 1.3× 760 1.4× 371 1.3× 285 1.7× 211 1.5× 68 1.2k
Guodong Jin United States 13 273 0.4× 388 0.7× 392 1.4× 58 0.4× 84 0.6× 54 616
Fabian Krzikalla Germany 5 434 0.7× 718 1.3× 518 1.8× 165 1.0× 156 1.1× 7 1.1k
Rick Dean United States 14 548 0.9× 447 0.8× 303 1.1× 155 0.9× 213 1.5× 25 823
Lihua Zuo United States 19 841 1.3× 827 1.5× 499 1.8× 176 1.1× 24 0.2× 39 1.2k
Alex Schwing Netherlands 7 301 0.5× 696 1.2× 396 1.4× 300 1.8× 173 1.2× 16 966
Zhihui Ye China 12 454 0.7× 576 1.0× 560 2.0× 82 0.5× 25 0.2× 45 847
Olivier Gosselin United Kingdom 16 484 0.8× 506 0.9× 103 0.4× 130 0.8× 40 0.3× 36 677
Larry S. Fung United States 16 460 0.7× 622 1.1× 139 0.5× 136 0.8× 264 1.8× 43 882

Countries citing papers authored by Xiang Rao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiang Rao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiang Rao

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

All Works

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Kang, Lixia, et al.. (2025). A numerical simulation method applicable to staggered grids for two-phase reservoir flow problems. Physics of Fluids. 37(2). 2 indexed citations
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Rao, Xiang, Shuqing Guo, Xupeng He, Hyung Kwak, & Hussein Hoteit. (2025). A first streamline-based simulation method within the projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM). Computers and Geotechnics. 185. 107357–107357. 2 indexed citations
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Kang, Lixia, et al.. (2025). Physics-informed neural network (PINNs) for convection equations in polymer flooding reservoirs. Physics of Fluids. 37(3). 3 indexed citations
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Rao, Xiang, Yongqian Liu, Xupeng He, & Hussein Hoteit. (2025). Physics-informed Kolmogorov–Arnold networks to model flow in heterogeneous porous media with a mixed pressure-velocity formulation. Physics of Fluids. 37(7).
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Zhao, Hui, et al.. (2024). A Novel Connection Element Method for Multiscale Numerical Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Fractured Reservoirs. SPE Journal. 29(9). 4950–4973. 2 indexed citations
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Rao, Xiang, Shuqing Guo, Xupeng He, et al.. (2024). Hybrid Mimetic Finite Difference and Streamline Methods for Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Fractured Reservoirs. Computers and Geotechnics. 166. 106048–106048. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hui, et al.. (2024). A novel meshless numerical simulation of oil-water two-phase flow with gravity and capillary forces in three-dimensional porous media. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 169. 105975–105975. 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Linsong, et al.. (2024). An efficient coupled fluid flow-geomechanics model for capturing the dynamic behavior of fracture systems in tight porous media. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 169. 106046–106046.
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Rao, Xiang, Xupeng He, Hyung Kwak, Ali Yousef, & Hussein Hoteit. (2024). A novel streamline simulation method for fractured reservoirs with full-tensor permeability. Physics of Fluids. 36(1). 10 indexed citations
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Zhao, Hui, et al.. (2023). A connection element method: Both a new computational method and a physical data-driven framework—-Take subsurface two-phase flow as an example. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 151. 473–489. 10 indexed citations
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Rao, Xiang. (2022). An upwind generalized finite difference method (GFDM) for meshless analysis of heat and mass transfer in porous media. Computational Particle Mechanics. 10(3). 533–554. 21 indexed citations
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Rao, Xiang, Linsong Cheng, Renyi Cao, et al.. (2019). An efficient three-dimensional embedded discrete fracture model for production simulation of multi-stage fractured horizontal well. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements. 106. 473–492. 23 indexed citations

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