Yalong Sun

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Yalong Sun is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yalong Sun has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 8 papers in Computational Mechanics and 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yalong Sun's work include Heat Transfer and Optimization (30 papers), Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (28 papers) and Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies (6 papers). Yalong Sun is often cited by papers focused on Heat Transfer and Optimization (30 papers), Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies (28 papers) and Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies (6 papers). Yalong Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Yalong Sun's co-authors include Yong Tang, Shiwei Zhang, Wei Yuan, Heng Tang, Gong Chen, Jian Zeng, Jie Li, Lin Lang, Zhiwei Wang and Kairui Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Yalong Sun

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

A review on the liquid cooling thermal management system of lithium-ion batteries

2024 95 citations Chunxia Wu, Yalong Sun et al. Applied Energy profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yalong Sun China	25	1.2k	383	345	177	158	37	1.5k
Shanshan Xu China	12	419 0.4×	420 1.1×	287 0.8×	108 0.6×	141 0.9×	22	1.1k
Ryan McGlen United Kingdom	13	987 0.8×	306 0.8×	191 0.6×	174 1.0×	244 1.5×	25	1.3k
Chao Dang China	22	841 0.7×	559 1.5×	334 1.0×	174 1.0×	512 3.2×	85	1.6k
Hyoungsoon Lee United States	24	1.3k 1.1×	278 0.7×	481 1.4×	213 1.2×	32 0.2×	79	1.6k
Yuanqiang Luo China	18	628 0.5×	228 0.6×	101 0.3×	105 0.6×	177 1.1×	30	928
Wenjie Zhou China	18	878 0.7×	279 0.7×	154 0.4×	213 1.2×	49 0.3×	47	1.3k
Jaeseon Lee South Korea	19	2.1k 1.8×	209 0.5×	602 1.7×	756 4.3×	37 0.2×	48	2.4k
Remco van Erp Switzerland	13	592 0.5×	398 1.0×	131 0.4×	171 1.0×	46 0.3×	29	1.1k
Gilberto Moreno United States	16	833 0.7×	193 0.5×	273 0.8×	393 2.2×	43 0.3×	43	1.0k

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Li, Junhao, et al.. (2025). Performance analysis of battery thermal management system composed of copper foam/paraffin and wavy liquid cooling microchannels. Renewable Energy. 256. 123928–123928. 3 indexed citations

Qian, Gang, Xiaona Yan, Yalong Sun, et al.. (2025). Research and application of phase change materials in building transparent envelopes. Energy and Buildings. 347. 116302–116302.

Sun, Yalong, Jiangyi Chen, Heng Tang, et al.. (2024). Ultrathin flexible heat pipes with heat transfer performance and flexibility optimization for flexible electronic devices. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 208. 115064–115064. 14 indexed citations

Sun, Yalong, Hongming Li, Chunxia Wu, et al.. (2024). Hierarchical sintered porous surfaces with enhanced pool boiling heat transfer performance for high-power cooling applications. Applied Thermal Engineering. 249. 123368–123368. 31 indexed citations

Wu, Chunxia, Yalong Sun, Heng Tang, et al.. (2024). A review on the liquid cooling thermal management system of lithium-ion batteries. Applied Energy. 375. 124173–124173. 95 indexed citations breakdown →

Tang, Heng, et al.. (2024). Copper fiber wick with scaly fins fabricated by multi-tooth cutting for directional heat transfer. Applied Thermal Engineering. 259. 124960–124960.

Sun, Yalong, et al.. (2024). Effect of forced convection cooling on overload performance of permanent magnet synchronous motor for industrial robot. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 161. 108527–108527.

Tang, Heng, Qiang Huang, Fang Lu, et al.. (2024). A review of fabrication and performance of heat pipes with grooved wick structure. Applied Thermal Engineering. 255. 123949–123949. 9 indexed citations

Tang, Heng, et al.. (2023). Review on the fabrication of surface functional structures for enhancing heat transfer of heat pipes. Applied Thermal Engineering. 226. 120337–120337. 26 indexed citations

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Tang, Heng, Bin Guo, Yong Tang, et al.. (2022). Fabrication and boiling heat transfer characterization of multi-scale microgroove surfaces. Science China Technological Sciences. 65(12). 3010–3019. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhiwei, Gong Chen, Yong Tang, et al.. (2021). Capillary wicking in double-scale composite microgroove wicks for copper-aluminum composite vapor chambers. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 126. 105449–105449. 37 indexed citations

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Tang, Kairui, Jingjing Bai, Siyu Chen, et al.. (2021). Pool Boiling Performance of Multilayer Micromeshes for Commercial High-Power Cooling. Micromachines. 12(8). 980–980. 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Yalong, et al.. (2020). Experimental and numerical investigation on a novel heat pipe based cooling strategy for permanent magnet synchronous motors. Applied Thermal Engineering. 170. 114970–114970. 106 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiwei, Xingchi Jiang, Yuanjie Li, et al.. (2020). Extraordinary boiling enhancement through micro-chimney effects in gradient porous micromeshes for high-power applications. Energy Conversion and Management. 209. 112665–112665. 78 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiwei, Can Chen, Gong Chen, et al.. (2020). Capillary performance characterization of porous sintered stainless steel powder wicks for stainless steel heat pipes. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer. 116. 104702–104702. 38 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shiwei, Jieling Chen, Yalong Sun, et al.. (2018). Experimental study on the thermal performance of a novel ultra-thin aluminum flat heat pipe. Renewable Energy. 135. 1133–1143. 83 indexed citations

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Sun, Yalong, Gong Chen, Shiwei Zhang, et al.. (2017). Pool boiling performance and bubble dynamics on microgrooved surfaces with reentrant cavities. Applied Thermal Engineering. 125. 432–442. 76 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jian, Shiwei Zhang, Yong Tang, Yalong Sun, & Wei Yuan. (2017). Flow boiling characteristics of micro-grooved channels with reentrant cavity array at different operational conditions. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 114. 1001–1012. 36 indexed citations

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Tang, Yong, et al.. (2017). Experimental investigation of capillary force in a novel sintered copper mesh wick for ultra-thin heat pipes. Applied Thermal Engineering. 115. 1020–1030. 102 indexed citations

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Zeng, Jian, Shiwei Zhang, Gong Chen, et al.. (2017). Experimental investigation on thermal performance of aluminum vapor chamber using micro-grooved wick with reentrant cavity array. Applied Thermal Engineering. 130. 185–194. 76 indexed citations

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